Tomato |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"Baad and Baader extreme women rule, in this bold, more-than-meets-the eye brand of moviemaking, while the impassioned political thriller dissects the Red Army Faction's ideological seduction of actually one fourth of the German population." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"Baad and Baader extreme women rule, in this bold, more-than-meets-the eye brand of moviemaking, while the impassioned political thriller dissects the Red Army Faction's ideological seduction of actually one fourth of the German population." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"A feast of dervish song and dance to delight the senses, and where Bab'Aziz essentially steals the open air show as an elder who can really shake his whirling dervish booty." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat 0/4 |
Babel (2006) |
"A feel-bad collage of unappealing images ranging from a decapitated chicken to a masturbating boy to a girl exposing herself to the graphic wounds of a gunshot victim. Not exactly what you'd call wholesome family entertainment." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"The picture's only weakness is that the pair's antics pale in comparison to those exhibited by the low-class trash you can find making fools of themselves any day of the week on the average episode of the Jerry Springer Show." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Austin Powers screen mastermind Michael McCullers is the guy behind this sorta same-sex parenting satire, as SNL's Tina Fey and Amy Poehler do an extreme odd couple for laughs duet, ripping into the burgeoning baby consumer industry." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Austin Powers screen mastermind Michael McCullers is the guy behind this sorta same-sex parenting satire, as SNL's Tina Fey and Amy Poehler do an extreme odd couple for laughs duet, ripping into the burgeoning baby consumer industry." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"More murky travelogue and hi-tech apocalyptic tall tale than crystal ball thriller terror ride, Babylon AD and its own destiny appear lurching toward Babylon DVD, prophetically much sooner than later." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Babysitters (2008) |
"A pathetic excuse to trot out a procession of teenage girls in the raw, performing graphic simulated sex acts with your basic suburban family man drooling all over himself." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Babysitters (2008) |
"A pathetic excuse to trot out a procession of teenage girls in the raw, performing graphic simulated sex acts with your basic suburban family man drooling all over himself." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"If you're wondering just how bad a bad lieutenant can be, let's just say that Nicolas Cage's 21st century re-incarnation of Abel Ferrara's original 1992 cult version, to say the least, renders Harvey Keitel's bad apple psycho cop a saint in comparison." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Badland (2007) |
"At least half the celluloid should have hit the editing room floor, since this one-trick road flick revolves around Jerry's constantly contemplating suicide and belatedly bonding with his daughter while eluding the authorities." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ballast (2008) |
"A slice-of-life adventure featuring a principal cast of non-professionals whose gritty naivete manage to imbue the production with a palpable sense of super-realism, even if in service of a Bill Cosby-infuriating display of black on black dysfunction." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Ballast (2008) |
"Stinging emotional truth and raw grit, stark in its simplicity. But captivating to behold, as these wounded lives flow into ours with all the natural, unassuming spontaneity of strangers we come to know and to care about enormously." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"A zany martial arts spoof which substitutes ping-pong for karate while seizing on every opportunity to inject CGI-enhanced slapstick and sight gags every step of the way." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"Balls Of Fury sweeps across the screen with delightfully wacko one liners per second, locked solidly into the genius premise of ping pong as a girlie game morphed into superjock rivalry between ferocious, sweaty he-men." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 1/4 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"How do you borrow the best elements of The Transporter, The Karate Kid and Mission Impossible and end up with an unwatchable mess like this?" |
Kam Williams |
Splat 1/4 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"How do you borrow elements of The Transporter, The Karate Kid and Mission Impossible and end up with an unwatchable mess like this?" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"A toxic blend of hitman midlife crisis, homicidal existential angst and a little surprise sex tourism on the side, this arty assassin fare is held together by sheer force of personality grim reaper guru Cage, no matter how cranky the guy can be." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"A toxic blend of hitman midlife crisis, homicidal existential angst and a little surprise sex tourism on the side, this arty assassin fare is held together by sheer force of personality, grim reaper guru Cage, no matter how cranky the guy can be." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"These heady high jinks ultimately deflate as a gritty collection of assembled journalistic details, with little solid dramatic scrutiny of dirty politics or shadowy personalities." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"Donaldson spins an intricate web of toxic layers of elaborate subterfuge and deceit that keeps both the thieves and audience on their collective toes." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bart Got a Room (2009) |
"A PG-13 rated teensploit that's actually for teenagers. What a novel idea!" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Bart Got a Room (2009) |
"A more sentimental but no less geeky Superbad style crude-lite slice of burb teen life, with refreshing hormones-in-crisis humor. Not from the usual yearning for high school popularity 'it'hood, but the terror down below of bottom feeder teen exile." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Battle For Haditha (2007) |
"What's next, a picture suggesting that we have to excuse the Abu Ghraib atrocities, too, as reasonable interrogation tactics?" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
Battle For Haditha (2007) |
"Remember when your mother warned that playing video games would desensitize you to violence? Now witness Exhibit A: a docudrama showcasing Generation Kill's all volunteer army in all its glory." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"In the continued acceleration of doc and drama cross-breeding, the movie is adept at fleshing out opposing points of view leading to a city under siege, but setting the stage for a tad too impartial percolating political passions." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"In the continued acceleration of doc and drama cross-breeding, the movie is adept at fleshing out opposing points of view leading to a city under siege, but setting the stage for a tad too impartial percolating political passions." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat 1/4 |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Nothing can save this overambitious enterprise embarked upon by a couple of idiots, full of sound and fury but ultimately signifying nothing." |
Kam Williams |
- |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"The Jack Black Be Kind Rewind Interview: On Going Blonde, Diving Into Garbage, And Doing The Full Moon Drama Ass On Screen." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"A people's cinema rough cut heart so squarely in the right place over in Passaic as opposed to Hollywood, that it's pretty much hard to resist." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"A people's cinema rough cut heart so squarely in the right place over in Passaic as opposed to Hollywood, that it's pretty much hard to resist." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 4/4 |
Beauty in Trouble (2008) |
"Queen takes pawn, Czech-mate!" |
Kam Williams |
Splat |
Beauty in Trouble (2008) |
"While life just got a little more complicated with the introduction of the market economy into formerly socialist Eastern Europe and China too, so did their movies. A surface meditation on materialism and its impact on human emotions. Do the math." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Beauty in Trouble (2008) |
"While life just got a little more complicated with the introduction of the market economy into formerly socialist Eastern Europe and China too, so did their movies. A surface meditation on materialism and its impact on human emotions. Do the math." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Beauty Shop (2005) |
"Keshia Knight Pulliam on Madea Goes to Jail" |
Kam Williams |
Splat 1/4 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"Fairly annoying from start to finish, primarily because Keaton is still relying on that ever less-endearing assortment of addlepated antics which won her an Academy Award for Annie Hall back in 1978." |
Kam Williams |
Splat |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"There is one big Sandler moment, when he discovers how to use a sandwich to brush his teeth. But I'll pass on the Cinderfella part, where instead of shoes, he promises to stick around 'like the stink on your feet.' Nose clips, please." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"There is one big Sandler moment, when he discovers how to use a sandwich to brush his teeth. But I'll pass on the Cinderfella part, where instead of shoes, he promises to stick around 'like the stink on your feet.' Nose clips, please." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"There is one big Sandler moment, when he discovers how to use a sandwich to brush his teeth. But I'll pass on the Cinderfella part, where instead of shoes, he promises to stick around 'like the stink on your feet.' Nose clips, please." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 4/4 |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"This masterfully-crafted, multi-layered murder mystery proves that the legendary Sidney Lumet hasn't lost his edge, despite being well into his eighties." |
Kam Williams |
- |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"Marisa's bored and frustrated sexpot trophy wife is pretty much kept around in the movie just for occasional guy sexual satisfaction in assorted bedrooms, between bouts of their bad boy behavior out in the real world." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"Marisa's bored and frustrated sexpot trophy wife is pretty much kept around in the movie just for occasional guy sexual satisfaction, in Sid Lumet's human cesspool of murky madness." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"Marisa's bored and frustrated sexpot trophy wife is pretty much kept around in the movie just for occasional guy sexual satisfaction, in Sid Lumet's human cesspool of murky madness." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Belle Toujours (2006) |
"Toujours suggests either creative immortality of a work of cinema as it flows through the imaginative process from one director to another, or simply sexual obsession perpetually unresolved. Or perhaps even a little of both." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Belle Toujours (2006) |
"Toujours suggests either creative immortality of a work of cinema as it flows through the imaginative process from one director to another, or simply sexual obsession perpetually unresolved. Or perhaps even a little of both." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Beowulf (2007) |
"The Anthony Hopkins Interview: On doing Nixon, Hannibal, Hitler and Hitchcock, and what does it all mean." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Beowulf (2007) |
"The actors must feel mighty pleased, in particular stocky Winstone with his body buffed and face-lifted animated Beowulf persona flexing his superhero synthetic biceps as he runs amok nude on screen." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Beowulf (2007) |
"DVD Unrated Director's Cut: Stressed out warriors wonder if they should turn to Christianity for better luck in life, but decide that vice is more fun." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Beowulf (2007) |
"The Angelina Jolie Interview: Calling Brad at home to talk about too shy for nudity on screen." |
Prairie Miller |
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