Splat 5/10 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Unrolls like a perfect storm of focus-grouped situations and joke-writing by committee." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"There's a lot to not love about the film...[but it's] one of the most thoughtfully designed post-apocalypse futures put on film in years." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"Cage and Herzog click together better than just about any first-time actor & director combination in recent memory." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Ballad of Narayama (1983) |
"A masterpiece of the human condition...[but] below the very peak of Imamura's filmmaking powers." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Bambi (1942) |
"Vies only with Pinocchio as the most technically accomplished work of animation to come from the studio's Golden Age... the last gasp of a maturity and gravity that would immediately disappear from Disney's features." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"It's a film of subtleties...delicate, but infinitely rewarding." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"Would that the film were a tenth as deliciously bad as its title." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"True or fake, The Bank Job is a brisk entertainment that doesn't need believability to work." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"There has never yet been a Batman story with quite this kind of psychological trauma. If Ingmar Bergman had ever directed a superhero movie, it would have looked quite a bit like this." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Battle For Haditha (2007) |
"The most apolitical film yet made about the conflict...showcasing villainy on every side, but nobility and sometimes heroism as well." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Battle of Algiers (1966) |
"One of the essential works of world cinema." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Bay of Blood (1971) |
"If only one-hundredth of the films it influenced had one-hundredth of its perfection, the horror film would be a much less disreputable and more wonderful thing than has been the case." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"At best it's a collection of very good ideas in search of a framework, and at worst a dramatically stale film based on a terribly messy screenplay." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Beaches of Agnes (2009) |
"The kind of film that will make you feel better about cinema, humanity, and life itself." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Beauty and the Beast (1946) |
"It's true that a bit of the film's impact has been diluted by its significant influence both within its genre and without; but the original is still a special thing, a beautiful hallucination." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Beauty and the Beast (1991) |
"This isn't merely the best of the princess features; it's very close to being the best Disney movie of them all." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Becoming Jane (2007) |
"Jane Austen did not live the life of Elizabeth Bennett, but even if she had, there was no reason to be this bland in presenting it." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"Too confusing to be humorous." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"Gives a crackerjack cast some fine characters and dialogue to tussle with." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Bellamy (2009) |
"A frothy mystery that you could call comic largely because no other adjective seems to apply very well." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Ben-Hur - A Tale of the Christ (1926) |
"Best enjoyed as a sample of the state of the art circa 1925, not as a timeless masterpiece." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"This is what happens when directors with lots of money and powerful computers get all hot and bothered about the latest new toys." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1983) |
"One of the greatest character studies imaginable." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"Tremendously routine, in a way that an adventure film about talking Chihuahuas should not be." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Beyond the Gates (2007) |
"It simply presents, and assumes that we have the inherent morality to understand that what we are watching is evil." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) |
"The very definition of self-conscious camp, certainly not Art but much too intelligent for Trash." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Bicycle Thief (1948) |
"Not in the top 10 or 15 or 100 films ever made... But it is undeniably good, very good." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Big Fan (2009) |
"Though not without its problems, it is not a film that's easy to forget about, nor do its questions all answer themselves at once." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Big Parade (1925) |
"Though a virtually uncountable number of war films in the intervening 84 years have trodden upon much the same ground, few of them indeed have been able to equal its achievements." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Big Red One (1980) |
"Personal observation bleeds out of every scene, and somehow it feels like a true story in a way that most war movies can't achieve." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969) |
"One of the most self-assured debuts of all time, a work so certain in its conception and execution that almost 40 years later I'd still quickly rank it as one of Argento's finest." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) |
"If any Hollywood film from the '30s is positively begging to be rediscovered...this is it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) |
"Isn't nearly as visionary as the best examples of the giallo form." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Black Book (2007) |
"Confronts us with an ugly humanity that is nevertheless unnervingly human." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Black Cauldron (1985) |
"It may have cost five times the amount of any other Disney film in the preceding two decades, but by God that money ended up on screen." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Black Snake Moan (2007) |
"Chaining people to your radiator is a Wrong Thing To Do. This is not the opinion of Black Snake Moan." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Blades of Glory (2007) |
"I can't imagine what circumstances would lead me to watch the film, in its entirety, a second time. But I'm glad I saw it once." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Blind Side (2009) |
"What saves the movie, insofar as it is saved, is the absolute commitment of the filmmakers... all of whom either don't notice or don't care how very pwecious their scenario is." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Blindness (2008) |
"A movie rotten with the fear that the audience might possibly miss the point if the filmmakers don't hammer us over the head repeatedly." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Body of Lies (2008) |
"Obnoxiously typical, and only its pointlessly convoluted series of double crosses in the middle even gives it the semblance of drama." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Body Snatchers (1993) |
"A teen horror film with grown-up violence." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Bolt (2008) |
"Easily the best Disney animated film since 2002's Lilo & Stitch... a return to core values for the studio." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Bottle Shock (2008) |
"It is not in the remotest sense a challenging or extraordinary film...cannot reasonably be described as anything other than adequate. But it is a pleasing film in a very simple way." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"It is exhilarating, and when it is over, you just want to get right back in line to ride it again." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
The Box (2009) |
"Impales itself on the smug awareness of how stuffed full of extraordinarily twisty ideas it is, without bothering to make sure that those ideas add up to anything halfway worthwhile." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) |
"Contemptible awards-bait... The Holocaust deserves far more than this prim Masterpiece Theater treatment." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
The Brave One (2007) |
"Too unpleasantly stern to be exploitation, and too bloodthirsty to be drama." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) |
"This was to be [director James Whale's] last horror film. Small wonder; what could he possibly have left to prove?" |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Bride Wars (2009) |
"A paean to friendship and conspicuous consumption that is just simply wrong. On a number of levels." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Brides of Dracula (1960) |
"If it isn't as iconic and elemental as its predecessor, that's no reflection on how well it works as a vampire entertainment on its own...an unusually original way to continue the closed-off story of Bram Stoker's novel." |
Tim Brayton |
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