Tomato |
Babel (2006) |
"An impressive, beautifully acted work with a tragic sense of life. The formality of its structure controls a seething anger." |
Philip French |
Splat |
The Baker (2007) |
"It lacks dramatic yeast." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Bamako (2006) |
"This sophisticated picture about a desperate situation expresses its optimism through its style and its respect for the people who appear in it." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Bandslam (2009) |
"A witty, touching, cleverly plotted film with excellent music and it made me feel for the first time in years that I'd like to be an American teenager." |
Philip French |
- |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Barry Lyndon (1975) |
"The film's truly outstanding performance is by Patrick Magee, an actor of terrifying intensity." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"With her raunchy innuendo and near-parodic sexuality, Stone seems to be coming on as the Mae West of film noir." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
The Beaches of Agnes (2009) |
"A touching, highly whimsical journey down memory lane." |
Philip French |
- |
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Philip French |
Splat |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"At 61, Diane Keaton is still doing her ditzy, girlish thing, but the act is getting a little oppressive and rarely more so than in Because I Said So, an indulgent comedy." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Becoming Jane (2007) |
"It's a good-looking film." |
Philip French |
- |
Before Sunset (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Beyond the Gates (2007) |
"There's a fine performance from John Hurt as a Catholic priest who gives shelter to fugitives in his school, and at the end we're introduced to various survivors of the tragedy who worked on the film." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Big River Man (2009) |
"The man is a mad obsessive and one is surprised that he hasn't ended up in the exotic trophy room of Werner Herzog, whose films Big River Man resembles." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Bigger Than Life (1956) |
"It was as much undervalued and misunderstood as the films Douglas Sirk was making at the time." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Bitter Victory (1957) |
"The film's military detail is in most respects quite ludicrous." |
Philip French |
- |
Black Christmas (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Philip French |
- |
The Black Dahlia (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
Black Sheep (2007) |
"It's a lively affair, extremely violent, full of black humour and what might be called shear terror." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Blades of Glory (2007) |
"The week's pleasant surprise was finding myself chuckling and occasionally laughing out loud at Blades of Glory." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Blood Diamond (2006) |
"The issues may be simply put, but the brilliant action sequences engage us viscerally." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Blue Eyelids (2008) |
"There are touching moments, a developing tenderness, some shuffling truths here and there, but not enough to make these marginal figures demand the attention the film's director thinks they deserve." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
The Blues Brothers (1980) |
"This long, expensive 1980 cult movie has an energy and individuality lacking in similar films nowadays." |
Philip French |
Splat |
The Boat That Rocked (2009) |
"Looking back for a suitably rousing episode from our national past, Curtis has alighted on Dunkirk, a tragedy narrowly averted, which he reprises as mirthless, feelgood farce." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Bobby (2006) |
"This dim movie invites suicidal comparison with Altman's ensemble pieces." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Bolt (2008) |
"It's funny and inventive, though not greatly helped by 3D." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) |
"The more I think about the film, the less amusing it becomes." |
Jason Solomons |
Tomato |
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) |
"Spasmodically funny." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"Not everything in these films is credible, but such a degree of surveillance seems highly plausible." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
The Box (2009) |
"For the first half-hour the movie is engagingly mystifying in a David Lynch vein. Subsequently it modulates into a piece of didactic transcendental science-fiction in the manner of The Day the Earth Stood Still and Close Encounters." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Bratz: The Movie (2007) |
"Bad even by the low standards of its genre." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Breach (2007) |
"Cooper gives a great performance as a man now spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, serving a life sentence without the prospect of probation." |
Philip French |
Splat |
The Break-Up (2006) |
"This is that branch of the romantic comedy known as 'a relationship movie', but generally short on witty lines and amusing incidents." |
Philip French |
3/5 |
Breaking and Entering (2007) |
"Full of interesting characters, intelligently conceived scenes and funny lines..." |
Peter Bradshaw |
- |
The Breed (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Brick (2006) |
"A refreshing private-eye thriller in a style now widely identified as neo-noi." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Bridge to Terabithia (2007) |
"The makers go easy on the special effects and the picture has a tragic dimension that young children will find upsetting. But if they watch it in the right spirit, and the right company, it could prove emotionally enlarging." |
Philip French |
Splat |
Bridget Jones' Diary (2001) |
"The filmmakers are uncritically in love with their heroine and her milieux and have romanticised them to an almost laughable degree." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Brief Encounter (1946) |
"Back in cinemas and welcomed by me." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Bright Star (2009) |
"Sit and savour this marvellous film until the lights come up." |
Philip French |
Tomato 5/5 |
Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
"The whole movie is a rich, spacious, passionate way of showing, not telling, feelings that dare not speak their name -- and doing so with superb intelligence and magnificent candour." |
Peter Bradshaw |
Splat |
The Broken (2009) |
"Occasionally scary, often laughably portentous, never explained." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Broken Embraces (2009) |
"An intriguing film of great intelligence and formal beauty." |
Philip French |
- |
The Brothers Grimm (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Bradshaw |
Tomato |
Bunny & The Bull (2009) |
"There's a bit of Withnail and I about the pairing and their story, but not nearly enough emotional momentum to help it out of the M&S dressing gown of cult nerdery." |
Jason Solomons |
Tomato |
Burma VJ (2009) |
"Demonstrates what can be done through the ingenious use of small cameras and mobile phones by brave, resourceful opponents of repressive regimes, and it deserves to be shown widely." |
Philip French |
Tomato |
Bustin' Down the Door (2008) |
"An instructive story." |
Philip French |
IGN RSS Feeds
