Tomato |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"This starkly unromantic epic ultimately benefits from its 150-minute running time, immersing the audience in the RAF's journey from shared passion to collective madness as their movement runs its full, sad, bloody course." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Babel (2006) |
"Makes Crash, another recent film with converging stories and a multicultural cast, look like an undergraduate term paper on race relations." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"One of the most entertaining African-American comedies of manners ever made." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"The most disappointing movie of the year so far." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"Think of it as Sunset Bloodsport with Jean-Claude as Norma Desmond." |
Grady Hendrix |
Tomato |
Bad Education (2004) |
"It's best not to spill too many more beans -- only to say that Gael García Bernal is the real thing." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"Like the water snake that slithers by during the opening credits or the baby crocodile from whose point of view we observe one roadside scene, this movie is a freaky little swamp thing." |
Dana Stevens |
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The Bad News Bears (1976) |
Click here to see the review. |
Charles Taylor |
Tomato |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"Thornton's performance is -- there's no other word -- beautiful." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Baghead (2008) |
"The movie's concern with its characters' shifting alliances and petty vanities also evokes early John Sayles and, at times, Eric Rohmer." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Baise Moi (2001) |
"An exploitation movie reduced to its grindhouse essence." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"At moments, the movie is almost sentimental, but the performances save it every time." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Bandits (2001) |
"Levinson must think he's on safe ground morally by keeping Bandits bloodless, as if the absence of carnage somehow makes kidnapping and armed robbery wholesome." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"Pungently funny and heartfelt." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Batman & Robin (1997) |
"A punishing ordeal" |
Alex Ross |
Tomato |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"Bruce Wayne's invention of Batman is the story of Batman Begins, and it's an epic one, with a suitably epic cast of A-list actors." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Be Cool (2005) |
"The bits with Cedric the Entertainer and his gun-toting posse struck me as a flaming racist outrage, and casting The Rock as a flamboyantly gay actor/singer must have looked funnier on paper." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"It's hard to get too cranky about a movie that, at heart, is a tribute to the joy of making things with your friends." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"A pretty good tear-jerker." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"The movie's more than cute, funny, and (at 81 minutes) brisk enough to move families in and out of the multiplex in mass quantities, like the social insects we are." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Before Sunset (2004) |
"The bad news is that Before Sunset is not as delirious an experience as its predecessor. The good news is that it's wonderful anyway, and in ways that tell us something about our romance with Before Sunrise." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"It revisits [Dog Day Afternoon's] claustrophobic suspense and deep compassion for its characters -- abject, grasping everymen who truly believe they're only one act of violence away from everything they've ever wanted." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Bend It Like Beckham (2003) |
"The movie isn't unwatchable. It's clumsily good-natured, the actors are appealing, and there are worse ways to spend two hours than looking at pretty young girls in shorts kicking balls." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Beowulf (2007) |
"Comic-Con geeks and cinephiles alike will gape at the resplendent imagery (but don ye specs, and see it in 3-D)." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Best in Show (2000) |
"With results like this, a new Guest mockumentary every couple of years would be aces by me." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Best of Youth (2005) |
"This is the sort of movie you'll recommend to friends and they'll go, 'Six hours! Are you nuts?' and then call you up and thank you in the middle of the night." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"Beverly Hills Chihuahua isn't terrible. OK, it's kind of terrible, but it's a talking-dog movie, and anyone who goes to a talking-dog movie without being prepared to step in poop deserves to ruin his shoes." |
Josh Levin |
Splat |
Bewitched (2005) |
"Nora Ephron used to mine the tension between romantic fantasy and the real (disappointing) world for honest laughs. But now she has settled happily in big-budget star-studded chick-flick land, where it's all synthetic, all the time." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Beyond the Sea (2004) |
"A Whitman's Sampler of biopic clichés." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Big Bounce (2004) |
"The director, George Armitage, has a good feel for laid-back, hipster black comedy but no impulse whatsoever to keep the narrative moving." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Big Fan (2009) |
"With its unremittingly bleak humor and eagerness to plumb the depths of fanboy abjection, Big Fan seems destined for a future in the cult canon." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Birth (2004) |
"Unusually austere and ambiguous." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Black Dahlia (2006) |
"There's more moral weight in one paragraph of James Ellroy's somber 1987 novel The Black Dahlia than in all 121 minutes of Brian De Palma's florid, sprawling, self-satisfied film version." |
Dana Stevens |
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Black Hawk Down (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mickey Kaus |
Splat |
Black Snake Moan (2007) |
"Depriving a near-naked and recently assaulted stranger of the most basic physical liberty for days on end is a sick, perverse, and cruel thing to do. Black Snake Moan appears to be -- or, worse, pretends to be -- oblivious to that simple fact." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Blades of Glory (2007) |
"Blades of Glory does have its moments of loopy ingenuity, even if none of them goes quite far enough." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
"I could tell you the story -- give away every detail -- and The Blair Witch Project would still freeze your blood." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Blind Side (2009) |
"The problem with a story that's almost too good to be true is that someone in Hollywood will try to make it better." |
Josh Levin |
Tomato |
Blood Diamond (2006) |
"[Director Zwick] is craftsman enough that the pace never slackens, the chase scenes thrill, and the battle scenes sicken. And if it makes viewers think twice about buying their sweethearts that hard-won hunk of ice for Christmas, so much the better." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Blow (2001) |
"An extraordinary -- and unfathomable -- piece of whitewashing." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Body of Lies (2008) |
"I'm still waiting for the war-on-terror thriller that has more on its mind than the threat al-Qaida poses to movie stars." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008) |
"The timing of its release is so perfect, and the figure at its center so fascinating, that Boogie Man is nonetheless required viewing for anyone obsessed with the 2008 race." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) |
"Its best jokes approach some savage, atavistic core of cultural taboo and make the viewer wonder: Is it really possible to laugh at this? But by the time you formulate that question, it's too late: You're already laughing." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Bottle Shock (2008) |
"Why did I feel such affection for this scruffy, hokey little movie? Maybe it's the same logic that applies to wine-drinking itself: Sure, a great claret would be ideal, but an OK rosé is better than washing down your dinner with water." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Bourne Identity (2002) |
"It moves quickly, adroitly, and without fuss; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the Cold War datedness -- of its premise." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) |
"A tour-de-force of thriller filmmaking." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Bread & Roses (2001) |
"A tough sell." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Break-Up (2006) |
"There's no reason not to see The Break-Up, but there's also no reason, assuming the date is going well, not to skip it and order dessert." |
Michael Agger |
Tomato |
Breakfast on Pluto (2005) |
"You'll be singing along to the soundtrack of Neil Jordan's enchanting Breakfast on Pluto, which boasts the most felicitous use of wall-to-wall pop songs I've ever heard." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Brick (2006) |
"Like the best noirs, Brick is a triumph of attitude, and there's no arguing that its brand of deadpan cool is precisely unique." |
Troy Patterson |
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