Splat |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"If the crude style of Sweetback worked to its advantage, the same case can't be made for Van Peebles fils' erratic docudrama." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Babe (1995) |
"...brought home the bacon at the box-office." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/4 |
Babel (2006) |
"If Crash drove you to distraction, then thou best stay away from Babel, this year's towering exercise in socio-political-psycho babble." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Baby It's You (1983) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1/5 |
Babyfever (1994) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"Just when you think Hollywood movies can’t get any worse, Bruckheimer and Bay outdo themselves for another exercise in pulverizing macho brutality" |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Bad Education (2004) |
"A good lesson on how to lose your audience." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Bad News Bears (1976) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"One lazy foul ball." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"Zwigoff trims this unbelievably lewd comedy with so many f-words that you’ll swear Thornton is playing Satan, not Santa." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 5/5 |
Badlands (1973) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"If Miller's drama begins as a wistful ballad, it decomposes into an overwrought dirge." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 0/5 |
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/4 |
Ballets Russes (2005) |
"Surprisingly heavy on its feet." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Bambi (1942) |
"Walt himself would have been proud of the two-disc special edition, which restores the Disney classic back to its original museum-quality luster ... maybe the only missing extra in this treasure is Bambi Meets Godzilla." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Band of Outsiders (1964) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"...The speeches are so deadening, I thought the projectionist had slipped in the last reel of a John Sayles picture." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Barbershop (2002) |
"...has the makings of a long-running franchise, but one that just doesn’t cut it as a crossover hit." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Barcelona (1994) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/5 |
Barfly (1987) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Barry Lyndon (1975) |
"Kubrick's masterwork puzzled critics and audiences alike, who just couldn’t take to the honest but anti-humanist idea that humans are products–and pawns–of their times." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Barton Fink (1991) |
"The Coens’ unsettling evocation of isolation and madness is vividly realized; their ultimate meaning is insanely obscure." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1/5 |
Baseketball (1998) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 0/4 |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"Another low in Hollywood's descent into virtual flesh-peddling ... Stone proves that she's still basically a "star" only to the extent that she strips." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Batman (1989) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"Holy gratuitous prequel, Batman!" |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Battle Creek Brawl (1980) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 5/5 |
Battleship Potemkin (1925) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) |
"Audiard's baffling underworld etude seems entirely played in a minor key." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit (1964) |
"The let-it-be flip side of A Hard Day's Night." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
The Beautiful Country (2005) |
"Beauty amidst ugliness and inequity is the territory of Moland's wrenching saga of one young man's journey to America." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Beauty Shop (2005) |
"Latifah does her best to keep it real, and that's the sad part. What she and her girlfriends do to the English language is pretty darn ugly." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1/4 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"The only time Keaton is tolerable is when she's not saying anything at all, the result of laryngitis." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) |
"Starting with the dog, Wang's warm-and-fuzzy story could have used some careful trimming." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/4 |
Bee Season (2005) |
"Despite the advance buzz, you can spell it murky and meandering." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Before Sunset (2004) |
"Surprisingly too linear for its own good...You can’t get much more minimalist than this sequel, which could be called My Coffee With Celine." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Being Julia (2004) |
"Annette Bening is splendid being Julia–and is just dandy being Annette Bening, too." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Ben-Hur - A Tale of the Christ (1926) |
"Novelist Lew Wallace’s 'Tale of Christ' got the silent Hollywood treatment, and how, in M-G-M's elephantine costume epic." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Betrayal (1983) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Bewitched (2005) |
"Despite the modernist incantation, the Ephrons' boob-tube spoof feels like they've channeled a dusty rerun." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Beyond the Sea (2004) |
"Despite all the buoyant, high-stepping energy, Spacey's gushing biopic sinks into his own grandiosity." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 4/5 |
Big (1988) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
The Big Bounce (2004) |
"...Nothing matters much in this Elmore Leonard adaptation as the sight of budding starlet Sara Foster in various states of undress." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Big Fish (2003) |
"In the shallow pool of holiday movie offerings, Tim Burton’s Big Fish has surfaced as the freshest catch of the season." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
The Big Lebowski (1998) |
"An indulgent spoof, Big Lebowski isn’t a straight gutter ball, but it’s no strike, either." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1/5 |
The Big Mouth (1967) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Big Sleep (1946) |
"It matters not that even the writers (including William Faulkner) weren't sure who shot whom in Hawks' rousing adaptation of the Raymond Chandler detective novel." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Big Store (1941) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
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