Tomato 4/5 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"This impressively mounted and thoroughly researched film is so watchable, whatever one’s views about its fanatical participants." |
Derek Malcolm |
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Baby Boy (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
Splat 1/5 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"With this story, and this cast, the movie ought to have been fun." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"French director Mathieu Kassovitz was once touted as the next Scorsese, thanks to his gritty debut, La Haine. Alas, this action-adventure epic suggests he has settled for being a Hollywood wannabe." |
Charlotte O'Sullivan |
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Bad Company (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
Tomato 4/5 |
Badlands (1973) |
"The superb performances from Sheen and Spacek are as memorable as Malick’s vision of something akin to hell." |
Derek Malcolm |
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Baise Moi (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
Splat 1/5 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"A horrendously written and acted movie which even Walken can't save." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bamako (2006) |
"A thought-provoking film, told in a traditional African form and unique in the often fraught annals of African film-making." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"This may be a small film but it is almost perfectly formed and by no means just a pleasant work in a minor key." |
Derek Malcolm |
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Bandits (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bandslam (2009) |
"The characterisations are just a little unorthodox and the whole thing, despite a soggy middle during which nothing much happens, goes with an above average swing." |
Derek Malcolm |
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The Banger Sisters (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
Splat 1/5 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"One day someone will make a film about a lone-wolf killer who gets offered One Last Job, turns it down, retires rich and lives happily ever after." |
Charlotte O'Sullivan |
Tomato |
The Banishment (2007) |
"The Banishment is so obviously the work of an exceptional film-maker that you can't deny its power, ambition and ability to keep you watching." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"In short, this is not a very distinguished film, but it does have a good enough plot to keep you watching and wondering what is the result of good research and what has been constructed by intelligent guesswork." |
Derek Malcolm |
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Barbershop (2002) |
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Battle Royale (2000) |
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Alexander Walker |
- |
The Beast (1975) |
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Alexander Walker |
Splat 0/5 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"Treats women like idiots and men like inflatable sex toys." |
Nick Curtis |
Splat 2/5 |
Before I Forget (2008) |
"It has the merit of drawing you into this depressing world with stoic realism. It’s not, however, a bundle of fun to watch." |
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Before Night Falls (2000) |
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Alexander Walker |
- |
Before You Go (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
- |
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
- |
Behind the Sun (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
- |
Beijing Bicycle (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
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The Believer (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
Tomato 4/5 |
Belle Toujours (2006) |
"As an echo of the Buñuel masterwork, it could hardly be better in teasing out and expanding on its themes. Effortless artistry, in fact." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Ben X (2008) |
"It is based on a successful play and has won festival awards. But its convoluted plot and an ending which we are not sure is real or fantasy prevent it striking home as well as it might." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"I came, saw, had my retinas fried, and was conquered." |
Charlotte O'Sullivan |
Splat 2/5 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"The background work is smashing, though nothing like as detailed as Pixar's Ratatouille and, if the screenplay does one thing decently, it is to make some sort of sense of a most confusing story." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"You want to cringe as the picture begins, but you end up quite enjoying it." |
Derek Malcolm |
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Big Fat Liar (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
Tomato 4/5 |
Big River Man (2009) |
"John Maringouin’s documentary about Slovenian Martin Strel’s attempt to swim the Amazon starts like a Borat-style spoof and ends as Fitzcarraldo in Speedos." |
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Big Shot's Funeral (2003) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Bigga than Ben (2008) |
"Bigga Than Ben is small-scale, episodic and not without its sins of omission. But it looks as if it speaks the truth and is considerably more entertaining and thought-provoking than most of the week’s other offerings." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato |
Billy Elliot (2000) |
"Immensely moving." |
Alexander Walker |
- |
Birthday Girl (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
- |
Black Hawk Down (2001) |
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Neil Norman |
Splat 2/5 |
Blindness (2008) |
"It’s a nightmarish vision but also a bit of a mess." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 4/5 |
Blindsight (2008) |
"You wouldn’t believe it as fiction but it really is fairly unadorned fact. It is easy to see awards beckoning, and deservedly so because Walker as a film-maker never puts herself in front of her extraordinary subjects." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Blood Diamond (2006) |
"A comparatively honest effort from Hollywood but one fatally weakened by the familiar scent of compromise in its final reels." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
A Bloody Aria (2006) |
"It all looks like Michael Haneke-lite but, as a comment upon the fact that people tamed by violence tend to promote it when given half a chance, it has its grimly amusing merits." |
Derek Malcolm |
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Blow Dry (2001) |
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Alexander Walker |
- |
Blue Crush (2002) |
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Alexander Walker |
Tomato |
Blue Eyelids (2008) |
"Their awkward struggle to overcome shyness and take a chance on love becomes the basis of a gently life-affirming tale of loneliness and longing." |
Allan Hunter |
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Blue Velvet (1986) |
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Alexander Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Blues Brothers (1980) |
"I have never been quite sure why this $30 million comedy made by John Landis in 1980 became such a cult." |
Derek Malcolm |
Splat 2/5 |
The Boat That Rocked (2009) |
"The soundtrack is the saving grace of a film that doesn’t cut it in any other direction and often gets irritatingly full of boyish rudery and sentimentality." |
Derek Malcolm |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bobby (2006) |
"Using his haunting elegy for Martin Luther King over the final scene, Estevez makes most of what's gone before seem entertaining enough but fairly trivial. This is not, after all, Grand Hotel." |
Derek Malcolm |
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