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Babel (2006) |
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David Edelstein |
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Bad Boys II (2003) |
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Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Bad Company (2002) |
"Rock doesn't really act with the other performers; he stands next to them and buzzes in his own orbit." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Bad Education (2004) |
"It still exerts an uncanny power: Like the best of Almodóvar’s work, it throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul." |
Logan Hill |
Tomato |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"If there’s a sure thing in movies, it’s that if you cast Nicolas Cage in a role in which he goes crazy, he’ll rise to the occasion and keep on rising until he seems even loonier than his character." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"Bad Santa is my kind of Christmas movie -- profane, subversive, and swarming with scuzzballs." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Baghead (2008) |
"Directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, it’s very broad, but the satire -- and its attendant babble -- actually heightens the scares." |
David Edelstein |
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Baise Moi (2001) |
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Peter Rainer |
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000) |
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Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Bamboozled (2000) |
"Poor Mantan Moreland and Hattie McDaniel and all the rest are made to take the rap in this movie for contributing to a legacy of racist degradation. One would think, given what they were up against, that a bit more sympathy might be shown to these people." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"The Band’s Visit resounds with tenderness and melancholy." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Bandits (2001) |
"I like movies that don't settle into a groove, especially if the groove is already well worn. But the different kinds of movies that make up Bandits are pretty worn, too." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"So insipid it may turn even superannuated hippies into raging neocons." |
Peter Rainer |
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Baran (2002) |
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Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"Stupefyingly lackluster." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"A nonstarter." |
Ken Tucker |
Tomato |
Battle For Haditha (2007) |
"It’s a hell of a picture." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"The drama gets heavy-handed at times, but the film is a triumph, thanks to a crack cast including Connie Nielson, stunning as a TV reporter who joins her subjects in protest." |
Sara Cardace |
Tomato |
Battle of Algiers (1966) |
"The most electrifyingly timely movie playing in New York was made in 1965." |
Peter Rainer |
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Be Cool (2005) |
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Ken Tucker |
Splat |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Gondry might think he’s parodying dumb comedies in which poor people rally to save beloved institutions from foreclosure -- but too often Be Kind Rewind just resembles them." |
David Edelstein |
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The Beach (2000) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Beaches of Agnes (2009) |
"Agnès Varda manages to be full of herself without seeming … full of herself. Perhaps that’s because her self is full of so much other stuff: friends, photos, films, buildings, and beaches." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Beaufort (2008) |
"Pro-war audiences on both sides will find Joseph Cedar’s vision irresponsible. I think Beaufort captures a higher irresponsibility." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"A light veneer of condescension hangs over A Beautiful Mind." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Becoming Jane (2007) |
"Anne Hathaway has learned to ease up on the mugging and let us come to her. She’s no Jane Austen, but she’s got the gumption of an Austen heroine." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"It's impersonal. It doesn't come from anywhere interesting." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Before I Forget (2008) |
"The film doesn’t feel like a tragedy, but instead a droll slice of life -- perhaps a bit too muted and overlong, but often compelling in its own way." |
Sara Cardace |
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Before Night Falls (2000) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Before Sunset (2004) |
"A small masterpiece." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"[Sidney Lumet's] touch in Before the Devil is so sure, so perfectly weighted, that it’s hard to imagine him capable of making a bad movie." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Before the Rains (2008) |
"Rahul Bose has a winning presence -- eager with a touch of wariness or wary with a touch of eagerness, and never entirely at home. He keeps the movie from seeming too comfy -- a good thing." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2007) |
"Working in a mini-genre whose bones would appear to have been picked clean by the likes of Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven, Glosserman and Stieve find a few pints of fresh blood." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Being John Malkovich (1999) |
"Dazzlingly singular movies aren't often this much fun." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Being Julia (2004) |
"Playing a West End stage queen in the otherwise musty Being Julia, Bening has a high time strutting her good/bad stuff." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Bella (2007) |
"The film creates characters who are so relentlessly thoughtful and attractive that it’s hard to worry about their problems, even at the outset." |
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Tomato |
Bend It Like Beckham (2003) |
"Every generation has to discover the same clichés that were drummed into previous generations, and kids could do worse than to learn them from this film." |
Peter Rainer |
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Best in Show (2000) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Betrayal (2008) |
"The damage to the family seems too deep to heal, yet the film is lyrical, expansive, unbearably beautiful, with a melting violin score by Howard Shore. The bitterness has an epic scale -- bottomless, borderless, universal." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Betrayal (2008) |
"Even in a city bursting with extraordinary immigrant stories, this film about a Laotian-American family’s journey to Brooklyn is unusually moving." |
Logan Hill |
Tomato |
Betty Blue (1986) |
"The movie was colorful and swirling and oppressive all at once, and in 1991, Beineix recut it not to slim it down but to add a florid third hour." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Bewitched (2005) |
"What the hell is Will Ferrell doing to his career?" |
Ken Tucker |
Tomato |
Beyond Belief (2007) |
"First-time director Beth Murphy's genuinely inspirational documentary tracks the goodwill efforts of Susan Retik and Patti Quigley, two Massachusetts mothers widowed on September 11 while pregnant." |
Sara Cardace |
Splat |
Beyond the Mat (1999) |
"The wrestlers are cannier than Blaustein probably gives them credit for; they seem to be offering up their backstage lives to him in ways that mimic the soppiest of melodramas, and he falls for it." |
Peter Rainer |
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The Big Animal (2006) |
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Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Big Bad Love (2002) |
"The only cosmic question that arises from watching this film is, why should we care about any of these people?" |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Big Daddy (1999) |
"Adam Sandler's new comedy is being touted as a step forward for him, which I find funnier than anything in the movie." |
Peter Rainer |
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Big Fish (2003) |
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Peter Rainer |
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The Big Kahuna (1999) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008) |
"...manages to be two films at once: One is an informative portrait of a power-hungry society; the other is an intensely gripping narrative of personal growth." |
Sara Cardace |
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