Tomato 3/4 |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"The film is technically raw, but the sight of Van Peebles playing his father at a defining moment in movie history exerts a potent fascination." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 4/4 |
Babel (2006) |
"The year's richest, most complex and ultimately most heartbreaking film." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 4/5 |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"Leaves you shaken." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato |
Backbeat (1994) |
"What pulls you over the bum spots is the electrifying immediacy." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Backbeat (1994) |
"Backbeat nails the era's speed-fueled rocker spirit while mining the consequences of an artist following his bliss." |
Peter Travers |
Splat |
Bad Boys (1995) |
"It's all special-effects noise and nonsense." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 0/4 |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"The cinematic equivalent of toxic waste." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2/5 |
Bad Company (2002) |
"Producer Jerry Bruckheimer demands the kind of formula action that leaves director Joel Schumacher no space to let characters breathe." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 4/4 |
Bad Education (2004) |
"A rapturous masterwork." |
Peter Travers |
- |
Bad Girls (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"Billy Bob Thornton is the best weapon against cute that a kid baseball movie ever had." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"It could become a Christmas perennial for Scrooges of all ages." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Baise Moi (2001) |
"As Despentes lets the brutality overwhelm the relationship between the women, the film loses its core, and the shock loses its value." |
Peter Travers |
- |
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) |
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Peter Travers |
Tomato |
Bamboozled (2000) |
"You won't look at race onscreen the same way again." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2/5 |
Bandits (2001) |
"What started as cute becomes cloying and bloated." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2/4 |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"Hot idea. Tepid execution." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"Director Roger Donaldson keeps the suspense crackling. By the end, you'll want to know more about a heist that literally did shake the empire." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"Moves you to laughter and tears without cheating to do it." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 0/4 |
Barbershop (2002) |
"Final verdict: You've seen it all before." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2/4 |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
"A dutiful mood -- call it sequelitis -- has descended on the place." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato |
Barcelona (1994) |
"A remarkable find: The film doesn't stop at getting your attention, it rewards it." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 5/5 |
Barton Fink (1991) |
"Partly hilarious, partly horrific, totally mesmerizing." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2/4 |
Basic (2003) |
"Made up of remnants from other, better films." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato |
Basic Instinct (1992) |
"Verhoeven's cinematic wet dream delivers the goods, especially when Sharon Stone struts on with enough come-on carnality to singe the screen." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 0/4 |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"The laughs to be had in this deliciously awful sequel are all unintentional. A bummer for film buffs, but a ball for fans of the misbegotten." |
Peter Travers |
Splat |
The Basketball Diaries (1995) |
"You leave The Basketball Diaries believing that Leonardo DiCaprio can do anything." |
Peter Travers |
- |
Basquiat (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"Nolan's too good for Bat business as usual. His secret for making Batman fly is as basic as black: Keep it real." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato |
Batman Forever (1995) |
"Batman Forever is in and out but wins in the end by staying true to its unbridled comic spirit." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato |
Batman Returns (1992) |
"Burton uses the summer's most explosively entertaining movie to lead us back into the liberating darkness of dreams." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 1/4 |
Be Cool (2005) |
"You know a sequel isn't working when, ten minutes into the movie, a voice inside your head starts screaming, 'Please make it stop!'" |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Gondry, as writer and director, can't stop the creative helium from leaking out of his cinematic balloon." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Beach (2000) |
"The Beach, designed to provoke audiences, stops for too many Hollywood moments to get the job done." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Beautiful Girls (1996) |
"In a relationship that skirts bad taste, Hutton and Portman make tender movie magic, giving this big-screen spin on Friends its only moments of true romantic yearning." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"Sadly, Howard blands out in the final third, using old-age makeup and tear-jerking to turn a tough true story into something easily digestible. Until then, you'll be riveted." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Bedazzled (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Travers |
Splat 1/4 |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"The shortage of wit and the excess of goo can be summed up in Sandler's line to these children of divorce: 'I'm like the stink on your feet -- I'll always be there.'" |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"At its relaxed best, when it's about, well, nothing, the slyly comic Bee Movie is truly beguiling." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2/4 |
Bee Season (2005) |
"Fine directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (The Deep End) take a detour into mumbo jumbo." |
Peter Travers |
- |
Before and After (1996) |
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Peter Travers |
Tomato 5/5 |
Before Night Falls (2000) |
"In uniting to honor Arenas, Bardem and Schnabel create something extraordinary." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Before Sunset (2004) |
"There is something uniquely unforgettable in the way Linklater, Hawke and Delpy (equal collaborators on the script) find nuance, art and eroticism in words, spoken and unspoken." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"Working with the startlingly talented new screenwriter Kelly Masterson, Lumet fuses dark wit, suspense and tragedy into a time-shifting movie that vibrates with energy." |
Peter Travers |
Splat 2/4 |
Being Julia (2004) |
"Annette Bening can act but she works too hard to prove it in Being Julia." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Believer (2002) |
"A fireball of contradictory ideas that will pin you to your seat." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato |
Beloved (1998) |
"A knot of fierce emotions that is left for the viewer to untangle. Make the effort." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bend It Like Beckham (2003) |
"Like Nagra and Knightley, the movie is a sweetheart." |
Peter Travers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Benjamin Smoke (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Travers |
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