Tomato 3/5 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"The film crams a vast amount of information into two-and-a-half hours, and makes an honest, intelligent attempt to portray terrorism from every angle, including the victims' and authorities' viewpoints." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Baby Boy (2001) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"A lightweight romantic comedy that's to be welcomed, if only for the fact it offers juicy roles to talented writer-actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler." |
Christopher Tookey |
Splat 1/5 |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"The staleness of the script is reflected only too accurately in the kind of action sequences that most of us have seen dozens of times before. Not even Diesel can power this one." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Bad Company (2002) |
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Christopher Tookey |
- |
Baise Moi (2001) |
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Christopher Tookey |
- |
Bandits (2001) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Splat 2/5 |
Bandslam (2009) |
"The movie is too sophisticated in its first hour for preteens, and much too tragically unhip in its second hour for the older teenage audience that might appreciate its pithier wisecracks." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Splat 1/5 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"The script is a compendium of cliches, but not all boring. There is one passable chase scene on motor boats and a characteristically gruesome shoot-out at the end." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Battle Royale (2000) |
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Christopher Tookey |
- |
The Beast (1975) |
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Matthew Bond |
Splat 1/5 |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"An enormous amount of money has been thrown at the fantasy sequences, but it can't save a script that is woefully deficient in wit. And who better to drag the name of Disney through the mire than Sandler?" |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Before You Go (2002) |
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Matthew Bond |
Splat |
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) |
"It's pure adventure hokum, despite some end captions which are put up as though the events portrayed really happened (they didn't)." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Beijing Bicycle (2002) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"Savage, yes. But Beowulf is monstrously entertaining." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Best in Show (2000) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Splat 2/5 |
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"This live-action Disney comedy is the kind of family film which is aimed not so much at parents, as small children and their goldfish, as long as the goldfish do not have too long an attention span." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Big Fat Liar (2002) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Big River Man (2009) |
"An engaging, scenically spectacular documentary about one of the world's most extraordinary eccentrics." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Birthday Girl (2002) |
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Christopher Tookey |
- |
Black Hawk Down (2001) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Black Sheep (2007) |
"If you're in the mood for black comedy - especially if you enjoyed Shaun Of The Dead - this is shear (pun intended) enjoyment." |
Christopher Tookey |
Splat 1/5 |
Blindness (2008) |
"The picture ends on a note of hope, but most of it is extremely ugly, pictorially and spiritually. It's full of symbols and metaphors instead of believable people - but I have no idea what, if anything, it is trying to say." |
Christopher Tookey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Blood Diamond (2006) |
"In the ongoing conflict between Hollywood glamour and telling the truth about Africa, it's the former that wins." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Blow (2001) |
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Matthew Bond |
- |
Blow Dry (2001) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Splat 2/5 |
The Boat That Rocked (2009) |
"The main problem, however, is that it's just not funny or inventive enough, and drifts towards tedium whenever Bill Nighy isn't on screen. If ever a movie needed Hugh Grant to save it, it's this one." |
Christopher Tookey |
Splat 0/5 |
Bobby (2006) |
"So, yet again, Hollywood's elite has produced a political tract that plays fast and loose with history from an empty-headed, politically correct perspective." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
The Body (2001) |
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Jason Solomons |
Tomato 4/5 |
Body of Lies (2008) |
"Body Of Lies lacks the epic sweep of Gladiator and the emotional pull of Thelma And Louise. But it's enormously competent, with a couple of fine supporting performances from Crowe and Strong." |
Christopher Tookey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bolt (2008) |
"For entertainment value, there's nothing this week to rival Bolt. It's a clever, funny family film." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Born Romantic (2001) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Splat |
The Bourne Identity (2002) |
"It resembles one of those travelogue thrillers of the 1960s, that were blown away by the success of James Bond." |
Christopher Tookey |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"Top-class direction lifts ho-hum script." |
Christopher Tookey |
Splat 0/5 |
The Box (2009) |
"People start wandering about in a zomboid fashion but no one notices. The acting deteriorates into overwrought melodramatics. The plot gets sillier and sillier, and makes less and less sense. The Box should be taken away in one, and speedily buried." |
Christopher Tookey |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) |
"Despite the 12A certificate, I would regard this as most suitable for intelligent children aged ten to 12, who will be more prepared than adults to ignore its major implausibility - that security at concentration camps was ever this inefficient." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Bread & Roses (2001) |
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Christopher Tookey |
Splat 0/5 |
Bride Wars (2009) |
"Even at this early stage of the year, Bride Wars is certain to rank among the ten worst releases of 2009." |
Christopher Tookey |
Splat 1/5 |
Brideshead Revisited (2008) |
"It isn't at all emotionally involving. Charles Ryder remains a cold fish, and Goode endows him with good looks instead of personality." |
Christopher Tookey |
Splat 2/5 |
Bright Star (2009) |
"There's a fine line between fragile sensitivity and wimpishness, and Ben Whishaw tramples all over it. He is the drippiest British actor since the Merchant Ivory heyday of James Wilby." |
Christopher Tookey |
Splat |
The Broken (2009) |
"Mr Ellis has some visual flair. He builds up a menacing atmosphere, and there are a few nasty shocks. However, he seems to have no sense at all of pace or humour. His screenplay is terrible." |
Christopher Tookey |
Splat |
Broken Embraces (2009) |
"Precious, pointless and tediously self-aggrandising." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
The Broken Heart's Club (2000) |
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Matthew Bond |
Splat |
Bronson (2009) |
"In addition to celebrating violence, this most brutal of biopics is virulently homophobic. And its other disagreeable overtones of pretentiousness and precious fringe-theatricality make it a uniquely gruesome experience." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Brother (2001) |
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Matthew Bond |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bruno (2009) |
"There is no braver satirist than Sacha Baron Cohen today, working in any medium, and I salute him. This movie is going to be as big as Borat, and deservedly so." |
Christopher Tookey |
- |
Bully (2001) |
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Jason Solomons |
Tomato 4/5 |
Burn After Reading (2008) |
"Cleverly plotted and brilliantly acted, this is up there with Fargo and Raising Arizona as the Coens' finest comedic work." |
Christopher Tookey |
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