Splat |
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007) |
"Straczynski is a better writer than director... and despite the fine visual effects it all feels constrained by the low budget." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"... the sometimes awkward, sometimes easy interactions of former national enemies who don't speak the same language but manage to find common ground nonetheless." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"... a terrific piece of heist filmmaking made with a rough-and-tumble attitude and old-school professionalism." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Battleship Potemkin (1925) |
"Eisenstein orchestrates the film like a visual symphony, enhancing the movement of the action on-screen through the rhythm of the editing..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"For Michel Gondry, [the film] becomes a kind of folk art spin on Hollywood gloss and a tribute to his own preferred style of filmmaking..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
Becket (1964) |
"... what seemed majestic and theatrically impressive back then feels plodding and stodgy today..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"Director Sidney Lumet digs deep into the tawdry souls, peeling back the layers of arrogance and anger and self-delusion until all that's left is fury and fear and hate." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001) |
"A top French cast and the grandiose backdrop of the Louvre set off this silly ghost story like a gilt frame over a paint-by-numbers landscape." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Beowulf (2007) |
"... as reimagined by writers Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, this Beowulf has the dimensions of a Greek tragedy..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Berlin - Schönhauser Corner (1957) |
"... a juvenile-delinquent drama of disaffected youth in 1957 East Berlin... offers yet another vibrant, unexpected peek into the troubled social world of the socialist paradise." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1983) |
"... the auteur's most lavish and complex production ever." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Beyond Hatred (2005) |
"The effect is not always compelling or dramatic, but listening to the parents and siblings talk their way through anger and loss brings it all down to somber human terms." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2007) |
"What should be the American Pie of college genius comedies suffers from a lack of imagination and an absence of impudence..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006) |
"It's a murder mystery of young men in stir and in lust, with surreal scenes on sets of shadow and light and the merest suggestion of detail." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) |
"It's a total lark, directed with a delight for colorful spectacle and energetic action, with a touch of tongue-in-cheek humor..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Bird (1988) |
"... arguably the best cinematic jazz biography ever made." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Black Book (2007) |
"(A) riveting World War II resistance thriller with a runaway pace and a gripping sense of peril." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
Black Snake Moan (2007) |
"(An) overripe gumbo of redneck Freud and blues therapy, but the psychodrama is not half as daring as it pretends to be." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982) |
"This "Final Cut" is full of minor adjustments (with subtle reverberations) and major corrections, and the digital enhancements both refine the special effects and deliver a sparkling image." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982) |
"It's an overwhelming, immersive experience, a total creation of a possible future so complete that you don't need exposition to know how we got from here to there (2019)." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Blades of Glory (2007) |
"... as stupid and silly as it is funny, with absurdly florid and tastelessly choreographed skate routines... and plenty of backroom scheming." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Blast Of Silence (1961) |
"The film plays like an unholy marriage between the realist films noir of the '40s like The Naked City and the early independent dramas of John Cassavetes..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
"The R-rated Bonnie and Clyde... reverberated through the culture and polarized critics and audiences." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"Paul Greengrass... continues his rough and ready style of choreographing complex action scenes on location and throwing the audience into the middle of the chaos..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Brand Upon The Brain! (2006) |
"It's weird, creepy, imaginative, and unlike anything else out there." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
The Brave One (2007) |
"Here's something I never thought I'd see: a new-age vigilante movie." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Breach (2007) |
"... a sharp, smart thriller that plays down the Hollywood spy movie conventions for a look at the real work of the intelligence community." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
Breaking and Entering (2007) |
"... takes place in a metaphorical world of stunningly beautiful people where every human failing and dramatic action reverberates with symbolic significance." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Breathless (1959) |
"Jean-Luc Godard's feature debut was a cinematic blast across the bow of French filmmaking and international cinema..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Bridge to Terabithia (2007) |
"(A) tale of fantasy grounded in a very real and sometimes hard world." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Brute Force (1947) |
"The title says it all in Jules Dassin's bare-knuckle prison thriller, one of the most brutal films about caged men ever made." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
Bull Durham (1988) |
"The sports scenes have an offbeat authenticity and the romance is funny and sexy." |
Sean Axmaker |
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