Tomato 3.5/4 |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"You don't need to have seen the father's movie to enjoy the son's, a multitiered fantasia that's part cinema history, part family reunion, and all hall of mirrors." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"It’d be nice to see an American filmmaker commit a similar reckoning with the Watts riots, the Weather Underground, or the Black Power movement, not simply resort to cant and kitsch but to really interpret those moments." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat 2/4 |
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"Perhaps inevitably, the story and characters in Bab'Aziz never rival the interest of its photography." |
Michael Hardy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Babel (2006) |
"For a movie that insists on the truth of humanity's mutual dependency, Babel feels disconnected from anything but its own artistic determinism." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"Baby Boy is more insistent in its didacticism than Boyz N the Hood, the passion and conviction are no less heartfelt." |
Jay Carr |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Baby Face (1933) |
"A fascinatingly conflicted artifact of Depression-era do-me feminism." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato 3/4 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"The movie was written and directed by a man, Michael McCullers. But it cuts out the obligatory middleman and lets two women make us laugh, often very hard." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat 1/4 |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"When this Vin Diesel vehicle isn't pointlessly frenzied, it's narratively inert, wasting some decent production design, and a French-flavored cast primed for fun." |
Tom Russo |
Splat |
The Bachelor (1999) |
"Probably the best that can be said about The Bachelor is that it gave a lot of work to female extras." |
Betsy Sherman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Backyard (2003) |
"Warped entertainment? Yes. Sophisticated? No. And that goes for the movie as well as for the participants." |
Janice Page |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"The movie is 2 1/2 hours of hard-working intensity." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat .5/4 |
Bad Company (2002) |
"The first question to ask about Bad Company is why Anthony Hopkins is in it. We assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce, because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low." |
Sam Allis |
Tomato 4/4 |
Bad Education (2004) |
"A marvelously dirty, ultimately heartbroken movie about, among other things, the instability of identities." |
Wesley Morris |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"Frankly, the story isn't remotely as interesting as Cage. Nothing is." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"Stranded between pushing the scatological envelope and caving in to the formulas the 1976 movie established, and until the well-nigh foolproof ending, it comes up gasping for air." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"Mac and Graham have little to do, sadly, but this may be the bravest acting Thornton has ever done, so complete is his refusal to play to our sympathies." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato 3/4 |
Baghead (2008) |
"The movie's cheap, it's clever -- it's even a little scary in places." |
Ty Burr |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Baise Moi (2001) |
"Too ideologically earnest for the porn crowd and too hard-core for serious audiences." |
Jay Carr |
Splat |
Bait (2000) |
"Instead of a tiger in its tank, this vehicle for Foxx has a lot of formula." |
Jay Carr |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Ballad of Greenwich Village (2005) |
"You'd think a place renowned for its avant-gardism and its radical chic would receive a less by-the-numbers treatment." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat 2/4 |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"Indulgent, shapeless, and full of well-meant but ponderous pieties and psychologically driven mayhem." |
Wesley Morris |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ballast (2008) |
"The movie is a beacon of independent filmmaking, not simply because Hammer opted more or less to self-distribute it, but because it's evident that we're a million miles away from Hollywood." |
Wesley Morris |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ballerina (2008) |
"As dazzling as they can be in performance, the ballerinas are even more breathtaking when a camera catches them alone in the shadows, dancing only for themselves." |
Janice Page |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"Director Wych Kaosayananda -- or Kaos, to you -- is stupendously inept, unable even to properly light a combat sequence." |
Wesley Morris |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"Balls of Fury also scores points, so to speak, for coming up with its own sports context. Talladega Nights had NASCAR. Blades of Glory had the world of figure skating. Ping-Pong has . . . rec rooms?" |
Mark Feeney |
Tomato 4/4 |
Balseros (2002) |
"A heart-rending account of people trying to dodge the hurdles that politics puts in front of them." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato 3/4 |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
"It's a lovely little movie about very big things, and the smallness both illuminates it and keeps it from greatness." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato 4/4 |
Bamako (2006) |
"For all its outrage, Bamako is not a work of righteousness. [Director] Sissako is a poet, and the filmmaking in this new picture is stuff of a deserving laureate. Sissako is thinking about the small but mounting consequences of big ideas." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat |
Bamboozled (2000) |
"The shortfall in Bamboozled stems from Lee trying to encompass too much, with too many subplots and a far from optimum choice of targets." |
Jay Carr |
Tomato |
Band of Outsiders (1964) |
"An inexhaustible meditation on how the world is formed by desire." |
Chris Fujiwara |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"It's a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it's over." |
Ty Burr |
Splat |
Bandits (2001) |
"Bandits is inescapably lite, lite, lite, unfolding on the level of a factory product, not a human experience." |
Jay Carr |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bandslam (2009) |
"Within the context of modern family comedies and the vast enabling wasteland of tweener TV, these people feel almost three-dimensional." |
Ty Burr |
Splat 2/4 |
Bang Rajan (2004) |
"Yes, Bang Rajan introduces Westerners to a slice of history worth noting, but its stirring lesson is told in a way that's too long, too brutal, and too clunky to recommend enthusiastically." |
Janice Page |
Splat 1/4 |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"Plays like a television pilot." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"Bangkok Dangerous is bad without lifting a finger toward interesting." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Bank (2002) |
"It looks to be something less than the sum of its quite interesting parts." |
Ty Burr |
Splat 2/4 |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"It's something new for heist pictures: a movie that can't even rip off its predecessor with any panache." |
Wesley Morris |
Tomato 4/4 |
Baran (2002) |
"It reminds us of what a film can be when it's drawn from the heart of an artist who believes in the medium as something more than a product or commodity." |
Jay Carr |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"The Barbarian Invasions flirts with shallow pieties and glib wisdom, but in the end it dives into the deepest part of the pool." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato 3/4 |
Barbershop (2002) |
"A broad, very funny, unexpectedly graceful comedy of character and community." |
Ty Burr |
Splat 2/4 |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
" This sequel is overstaffed with a cast that's underserved by Don D. Scott's schematic script and Kevin Rodney Sullivan's crude direction." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Barney - Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jay Carr |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
"Barnyard is nothing so much as The Lion King chewed in a cud and digitally regurgitated. It's manic and maudlin, borderline creepy, occasionally inspired." |
Ty Burr |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Basic (2003) |
"It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion." |
Janice Page |
Splat 1/4 |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"Absurdly overheated and unforgivably dull, Basic Instinct 2 is the accidental comedy sensation of the year to date." |
Ty Burr |
Tomato 3/4 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"In Batman Begins, Christian Bale gives us the best Bruce Wayne that has ever graced the screen." |
Ty Burr |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Battle for Terra (2009) |
"If you find the plot predictable, as a distraction we present an arsenal of 3-D visuals." |
Ethan Gilsdorf |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Battle in Heaven (2006) |
"... Reygadas has made a sensationalist picture in which all the sensation is willfully dulled." |
Wesley Morris |
Splat 2/4 |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"The chief culprits are Townsend's TV-movie characterizations and a very muddled message." |
Ty Burr |
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