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Babe: Pig in the City (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Babel (2006) |
"The problem with Babel isn't that it's a bad movie. It's a good movie, or, more accurately, it's several pieces of good movie, chopped up in service of a pretentious, portentous and slightly silly artistic vision." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Splat |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"[Jody's] lessons on growing up and moving on never ring more than halfhearted and false." |
Mary Elizabeth Williams |
Tomato |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Even if the picture is softer than it needs to be, it still resists devolving into something warm and squishy." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Splat |
The Bachelor (1999) |
"The Bachelor doesn't generate enough laughs or sighs to hold together." |
Mary Elizabeth Williams |
Splat |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"Necrophilia, explosions, destroyed motor vehicles, gratuitous T&A and Martin Lawrence and Will Smith doing their lame Abbott-and -Costello act. What's not to hate?" |
Charles Taylor |
Splat |
Bad Company (2002) |
"This cookie-cutter spy thriller depends on the chemistry between Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock. Um, wait, there isn't any." |
Charles Taylor |
Tomato |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"There's a valuable lesson to be learned from Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans: Two wrongs don't make a right -- it takes at least three." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"At least Linklater isn't just picking the bones of his forebears; he honors them as they deserve." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"I found the escalating disreputability of Bad Santa completely cathartic." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Baghead (2008) |
"I want to persuade you to see Baghead, but I don't want to overhype it, because in many ways it's a delicate construction best served as a surprise." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Splat |
Baise Moi (2001) |
"Didactic, clumsily directed and abysmally acted." |
Charles Taylor |
Splat |
Bait (2000) |
"Bait makes a fatal mistake, one this kind of movie should never make unless it actually is The Matrix or Terminator 2: Judgment Day: It's long." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Tomato |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"The premise here has terrific potential, and I felt affection for all the characters." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Splat |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"I don't even care that there's no plot in this Antonio Banderas-Lucy Liu faceoff. It's still terrible!" |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Splat |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"Ultimately, it's a hollow enterprise, all ping and no pong. It doesn't bounce; it splats." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Bamako (2006) |
"It's surprisingly moving, funny, tragic, strange and undogmatic." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Tomato |
Bamboozled (2000) |
"A near masterpiece ambiguously balanced between brilliance and incoherence." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Tomato |
Band of Outsiders (1964) |
"Perhaps Godard's loveliest movie, certainly his tenderest and most accessible." |
Charles Taylor |
Tomato |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"If you stick with it, the story of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra's visit to the dusty nowheresville of Beit Hatikva (when they're actually looking for Petah Tikva) has an irresistible tragic and romantic undertow." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Splat |
Bandits (2001) |
"Flat and charmless." |
Charles Taylor |
Tomato |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"Watching the two women rekindle their relationship is the great pleasure of the movie, particularly since it looks as if Sarandon and Hawn had a blast together." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2007) |
"Banished offers a startling tour into an unforgotten history that remains invisible to most Americans." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Tomato |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"You need the right actors to make a movie as intelligent and as engaging as this one is, and [director] Donaldson knows how to make each character in this rather complex ensemble seem whole and distinct." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Baran (2002) |
"It shows us a slice of life that's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Splat |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"French-Canadian director Denys Arcand revisits the aging intellectuals from The Decline of the American Empire -- and they might be interesting, if they'd ever shut up." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Barbershop (2002) |
"What makes Barbershop so likable, with all its flaws, is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies." |
Charles Taylor |
Splat |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
"Like going out for a bad meal with a group of people you love being with. You're happy to be in their company; you just wish you didn't leave feeling hungry." |
Charles Taylor |
Splat |
Basic (2003) |
"The latest example of a thriller in which the beginning and the end make at least a tiny bit of sense, but the connecting stuff in between is just an inscrutable muddle of dumb twists, red herrings and ho-hum shockeroos." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Splat |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"If you're trying to reinvigorate the art of the stylish thriller, the movie you come up with needs to be stylish and it needs to be thrilling. Basic Instinct 2, written by Leora Barish and Henry Bean and directed by Michael Caton-Jones, is neither." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
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Basquiat (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
Glen Helfand |
Splat |
Batman & Robin (1997) |
"Holy creative breakdown, Batman!" |
Robin Dougherty |
Splat |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"Batman Begins leaks existential phoniness from the first frame." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Battle For Haditha (2007) |
"It might just be the movie this war has been waiting for." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Splat |
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
"If you're the kind of sci-fi fanatic who has to see every new futuristic action movie no matter how crummy it is then of course you'll check out Battlefield Earth regardless of how many cheap jokes critics crack at its expense." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
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Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Heather Havrilesky |
Splat |
Be Cool (2005) |
"The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Splat 3/10 |
The Beach (2000) |
"Lacks imagination and energy." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
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Bean (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Charles Taylor |
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Beastie Boys DVD Video Anthology (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeff Stark |
Tomato |
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) |
"Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped is a distinctly modern picture with its heart in the '70s: It has the nervous, kinetic energy, and the swaggering pioneer spirit, that marked '70s American filmmaking." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
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Beau Travail (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Charles Taylor |
Tomato |
Beautiful Losers (2008) |
"[An] alternately winsome and irritating documentary about the art scene that grew out of the Alleged Gallery on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 1990s." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Splat |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"The biggest load of hooey to stink up the screen this year." |
Charles Taylor |
Tomato |
The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006) |
"a spiny, puzzling and highly entertaining film, and whatever you go into it thinking, you're likely to come out thinking something else." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Tomato |
Beauty Remains (2007) |
"Ann Hu's Beauty Remains is distinguished by a ghostly, intimate atmosphere that will linger with you long after the plot has faded." |
Andrew O'Hehir |
Splat |
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) |
"Mostly, we get dumb formula, not quite ironic and self-mocking enough to be hip." |
Gary Kamiya |
Splat |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"If these are the only kinds of roles we can conceive for actresses who have grown into their faces, as Keaton has, it's no wonder so many younger performers are seeking the knife." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Splat |
Becoming Jane (2007) |
"Was Austen really a smarter, feistier Carrie Bradshaw in more sensible shoes, longing for love even as she failed to hang onto it? Becoming Jane would have been more honest if it had been called No Sex in the Country." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
Tomato |
Bedazzled (2000) |
"I think retooling Bedazzled relies most significantly on getting just the right devil, and you couldn't come up with a more perfect Luciferess than Elizabeth Hurley." |
Stephanie Zacharek |
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