Tomato 4/5 |
Babel (2006) |
"The beauty of Babel is how Iñnáritu weaves all these pieces together to create a unified picture of how language, communication barriers and cultural differences divide us, while simultaneously showing us the commonalities ..." |
Kim Voynar |
Splat 1/5 |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"Babylon A.D. is a bad, bloated big-budget science fiction film that doesn't even have the distinction of being memorably horrible or fascinatingly inept; it's simply a lump of product, a failure too expensive to simply discard." |
James Rocchi |
- |
Bad Lieutenant (1992) |
"Herzog Shrugs Off Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant Complaints" |
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Tomato |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"Herzog is having every bit as much fun as Cage here, toying with renegade cop movie cliches and working in a pulpy mode he hasn't touched for a while." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat |
Ball Don't Lie (2009) |
"Had Ball Don't Lie gone the straight linear route and changed the story so that our main character was actually working toward a concrete goal, perhaps the film would've shined." |
Erik Davis |
Tomato |
Ballast (2008) |
"Both the script and the performances keep audiences at a distance; Hammer deliberately avoids scenes or moments that would make sympathy or identification easy." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 3/4 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"Balls of Fury may be fairly specialized (How many sports-flick/martial arts parodies can you name, off the top of your head?), but even with that weird backhand spin, it scores more than a few points." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato B- |
Bandslam (2009) |
"A spry teen melodrama whose refusal to pander to its audience is refreshing." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat 2/5 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"Between all the dates and dinners, Bangkok almost ends up being as less thriller and more travelogue; by the hour mark, there are literally more gulps than gunshots." |
William Goss |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bart Got a Room (2009) |
"It's alive, it's colorful, it's got well-written characters and more than a handful of memorable scenes" |
Erik Davis |
Splat |
Battle For Haditha (2007) |
"As unsophisticated as ... Brian DePalma's Redacted, although at least Broomfield forgoes spurious aesthetic shenanigans." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Battle for Terra (2009) |
"Has a basic-yet-admirable statement to make about the best and worst of human nature, and it makes the statement colorfully, sincerely, and succinctly." |
Scott Weinberg |
Splat 1/5 |
Battle in Heaven (2006) |
"No amount of thoughtful dissection can make up for the unpleasant, uncomfortable and unnecessary experience of actually sitting through the thing." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005) |
"A surprisingly deep understanding of an otherwise obscure artist." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Be Kind Rewind, like last year's great Sundance film Son of Rambow, is a celebration of the power of film and the joy of the movies; not just great art, but also great trash." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
Beauty in Trouble (2008) |
"A complex look at the power and changeability of intimate relationships." |
Martha Fischer |
Splat 1/4 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"I don't think anyone actually wrote Because I Said So; I think that some Hollywood artificial intelligence think-tank instead fed DVD box sets of The Gilmore Girls and Sex and the City into a computer, along with Pottery Barn catalogs for roughage. ..." |
James Rocchi |
Splat 1/5 |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"About as delightful as peeking into your Christmas stocking and finding it empty except for a few lint-covered peppermints." |
Jette Kernion |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"Here's the biggest problem most folks will have with Bee Movie: It's not Ratatouille." |
Erik Davis |
Tomato 3/4 |
Beerfest (2006) |
"
Beerfest is dumb as a box of rocks. It's a brawny, badly-shot mess that goes on a little too long. .... And I loved it -- or, rather, I laughed during it and was consistently amused by audacity and stupidity going hand in hand." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 4/5 |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"At 83 years-old, Lumet still manages to deliver this film in a captivating, edge-of-your-seat fashion." |
Erik Davis |
Tomato 4/5 |
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2007) |
"If you've grown up on the unending exploits of the 80s cinematic stalkers, you'll find a lot to enjoy here." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato |
Belle Toujours (2006) |
"Belle Toujours allows Oliveira to reminisce, to be slightly playful and naughty, but still thoughtful." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"Some are calling Beowulf the future of movies, but it would be a lot easier to swallow that hype if ... anything in the movie suggested the people who made Beowulf were invested in making something good instead of just interested in making something new." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"Stands as an unapologetically enthusiastic marriage between old-school heroism and modern-day wizardry. Plus it kicks ass!" |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Beowulf & Grendel (2005) |
"Gunnarsson has made a film that would make the real Beowulf and Grendel, if they ever really existed, quite proud." |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Best Worst Movie (2009) |
"The odds of making a film like Troll 2 are fairly small, of having people quite like that film even smaller, and of having it bring people together just enough to matter." |
William Goss |
Tomato B- |
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"Once it gets the dumb 'Talk to the paw!' jokes out of its system, it's actually a reasonably charming, mostly benign kids' movie that adults can watch without their heads exploding." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato 4/5 |
Beyond the Call (2008) |
"An extremely inspiring film that is also hilarious, exciting and heartwrenching." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Big Bad Swim (2006) |
"Regardless of all the times I've desired more fresh ideas in a movie, The Big Bad Swim reminded me that sometimes characters don't require novelty as long as they feel genuine." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Big Man Japan (2009) |
"A flick tailor-made for the midnight slate at your favorite film festival. Especially if it's a festival that allows you to drink beer during screenings." |
Scott Weinberg |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Birds of America (2008) |
"It's not quite funny enough to appeal as a rom-com, nor quite darkly comedic enough to satisfy ..." |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato 4/5 |
Black Dynamite (2009) |
"One of those eminently quotable comedies that frat guys and movie geeks will come back to time and again." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato |
Black Sheep (2007) |
"Bloody good fun. The acting is solid throughout -- everyone seems to be having a great time, and they all seem to realize they're making a campy horror-comedy, not a serious drama, so they just take the premise, roll with it, and have a blast." |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Black Snake Moan (2007) |
"The combination of blues music and exploitation-film visuals should be jarring, but for the most part Brewer manages to pull it off, with the music helping to tie everything together (or chain it all together)." |
Jette Kernion |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (2006) |
"There isn't the same labored yet quotable wit ... that you'll find in some of the scripted satires, but part of the fun of improvisation is its spontaneous lack of polish." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Blessed by Fire (2007) |
"For an event rarely thought about outside of its involved countries, the film is a remarkable achievement." |
Christopher Campbell |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Blind Date (2009) |
"The characters are barely introduced before we're plunked right into their angst-fest." |
Scott Weinberg |
Splat |
Blindness (2008) |
"Blindness shows us a world of wide-eyed sightlessness, and it does so through a fierce vision that only occasionally loses focus." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet (2008) |
"These guys make funky dance music out of old Nintendo games!" |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Blood of My Brother: A Story of Death in Iraq (2006) |
"The action is so consciously real that at one point when a bullet could be seen coming towards one side of the camera I flinched to the other side of my seat." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Blood Tea and Red String (2006) |
"It is the oddest film I've seen all year, and certainly earns big points for originality." |
Jette Kernion |
Splat |
Boarding Gate (2007) |
"Argento never engages us as a character; she's like some porny dress-up (or, rather, dressdown) doll with a plastic visage and hollow head." |
James Rocchi |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Body of War (2008) |
"Half an excellent and touching profile of a young veteran, but unfortunately, half a strident anti-war propaganda film." |
Jette Kernion |
Splat 3/5 |
Bolt (2008) |
"Not much here for grownups to enjoy ... apart from watching the kids get a kick out of the film. (And the pigeons.)" |
Jette Kernion |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bomb It (2008) |
"Bomb It! is a brisk and bracing portrait of the state of the art. Of course, the fact that the art is often a crime comes up ..." |
James Rocchi |
Splat 2/5 |
Bonneville (2006) |
"... to see all that potential wasted on what's little more than a washed-out, milquetoast road trip comedy for the soon-to-be senior set is just a travesty." |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Borderland (2007) |
"Berman balances the weight of the actual events with the desire to mount a simply effective horror story, and I think he pulls it off quite well." |
Scott Weinberg |
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Born and Bred (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Martha Fischer |
Splat |
The Bothersome Man (2007) |
"A dark, nasty little movie that's never quite as deep or as clever as it imagines itself to be." |
Martha Fischer |
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