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Babel (2006) |
"The actors -- including [González Iñárritu's] two big stars -- are all wonderfully real, seemingly as surprised by the depths and dangers of their circumstances and emotions as we are." |
Richard Schickel |
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Baby Mama (2008) |
"I’m not making claims that Baby Mama transcends the format’s routine progressions -- opposites not only attract, they learn from each other -- only that, within these conventions, the movie is smart, funny and beguiling." |
Richard Corliss |
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The Bad News Bears (1976) |
"Surprisingly, improbably, The Bad News Bears is the year's funniest movie." |
Jay Cocks |
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Ball of Fire (1941) |
"Actor Cooper plays his Mr. Deeds role with the authority of long familiarity, and Miss Stanwyck (once Ruby Stevens, of Brooklyn) is equally at home in hers." |
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Bambi (1942) |
"For the first time, Disney has done his backgrounds in oils instead of watercolors. The result is striking." |
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Bandit Queen (1994) |
"An exciting movie that brings Devi's story to life with passion but without passing judgment." |
Richard Corliss |
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Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) |
"A funny, gentle and honestly sentimental movie that is easily one of the best of the year in any category, and very possibly the best movie about sport ever made in this country." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Banishment (2007) |
"We will not reveal more of the plot in the hope that one day it will be playing in a theater near you . It is truly something to see; for among all the lives to be ruined it is a visual rhapsody." |
Mary Corliss |
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Barton Fink (1991) |
"Gnomic, claustrophobic, hallucinatory, just plain weird, it is the kind of movie critics can soak up thousands of words analyzing and cinephiles can soak up at least three espressos arguing their way through." |
Richard Schickel |
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Batman Begins (2005) |
"[Nolan's] effort is not dishonorable, but what it needs, and doesn't have, is a Joker in the deck—some antic human antimatter to give it the giddy lift of perversity that a bunch of impersonal explosions, no matter how well managed, can't supply." |
Richard Schickel |
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Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Be Kind Rewind declares that the riches of cinema history touch each of us personally. Films become so deep a part of us that we own them that our memories of them, whether faithful or fanciful, become their meanings." |
Richard Corliss |
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Beautiful Girls (1996) |
"Beautiful Girls is always in touch with reality but never drowned in it." |
Richard Schickel |
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Beauty and the Beast (1991) |
"Its animators' pens are wands; their movement enchants." |
Richard Corliss |
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Because I Said So (2007) |
"If you don't expect too much of it, you may find yourself pleasantly -- all right, soothingly -- surprised by it." |
Richard Schickel |
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Becoming Jane (2007) |
"Hathaway never makes us think the woman could write anything more complex than a diet book." |
Richard Schickel |
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) |
"The fantasy is earthbound, the score by Richard and Robert Sherman (who also wrote music and lyrics for Mary Poppins) is forgettable, the special effects lackadaisical." |
Jay Cocks |
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Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"After sitting through this fractious fairy tale, we feel as plucked as a Christmas goose." |
Richard Corliss |
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Beetlejuice (1988) |
"Beetlejuice means something good: that imaginative artists can bring a fading genre back from the dead." |
Richard Corliss |
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Before Night Falls (2000) |
"Bardem hasn't the charisma to bring variety to Arenas or his plight." |
Richard Corliss |
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"I think you'll laugh a lot at what [Lumet] has wrought here -- but only well after the movie is over and the full scale of its perversity settles into your bones." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) |
"As Sister Benedict, Ingrid Bergman manages to combine beauty, great good humor and saintly dignity even while swinging a baseball bat." |
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Ben-Hur (1959) |
"The biggest and the best of Hollywood's super-spectacles." |
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Bend It Like Beckham (2003) |
"The acting is as nimble as the footwork." |
Jumana Farouky |
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Beowulf (2007) |
"You want to read Beowulf? Get the book, I'm not stopping you. You want bloody adventure with a brain, see the movie." |
Richard Corliss |
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
"Like most good mass entertainments, this picture has occasional moments of knowing hokum; but unlike most sure-fire movies, it was put together with good taste, honesty, wit -- and even a strong suggestion of guts." |
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Beverly Hills Cop (1984) |
"Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto." |
Richard Schickel |
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Bewitched (2005) |
"What this revival needs is a good kick in the pants. And that Ephron and friends lack the low cunning to deliver." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Big Chill (1983) |
"Funny and ferociously smart." |
Richard Corliss |
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Big Fish (2003) |
"Big Fish makes a big push for transcendence, but the strain shows. It's like trying to push a daydream uphill." |
Richard Corliss |
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The Birds (1963) |
"The movie flaps to a plotless end." |
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The Bishop's Wife (1947) |
"It is a big, slick production. The only thing it lacks is taste." |
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The Black Cat (1934) |
"A dismal hocus-pocus which seems to confuse its actors as much as it fails to frighten its audience." |
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The Black Hole (1979) |
"It is good to see the Disney craftsmen doing what they do best on such a grand and risky scale. If one has time for only one space opera this season, this is the one to choose." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Black Stallion (1979) |
"Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship." |
Frank Rich |
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Blade Runner (1982) |
"As a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers." |
Richard Corliss |
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Blades of Glory (2007) |
"Blades is an acceptable Friday evening diversion, most of which will have run through your system by Saturday morning." |
Richard Corliss |
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Blazing Saddles (1974) |
"Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls 'authentic western gibberish.'" |
Richard Schickel |
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Blood Diamond (2006) |
"DiCaprio proves himself the most watchful and watchable actor of his age." |
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Blood Simple (1984) |
"Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint." |
Richard Corliss |
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The Blue Angel (1930) |
"If The Blue Angel is familiar material, it is also the sort of hing that Jannings does better than anyone else." |
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The Blues Brothers (1980) |
"A demolition symphony that works with the cold efficiency of a Moog synthesizer gone sadistic." |
Richard Corliss |
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Body Heat (1981) |
"Though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir." |
Richard Corliss |
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Bolt (2008) |
"In the pre-Thanksgiving lull, parents can take their young'uns to Bolt, drop their 10-to-14-year-olds off at Twilight, and the whole family will have survived the weekend." |
Richard Corliss |
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
"Like Bonnie and Clyde themselves, the film rides off in all directions and ends up full of holes." |
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"The battle is as long as it is ferocious, and in the audience I saw the movie with, nobody took a breath until it was over. Then they exhaled in a noise that exploded into a cheer." |
Richard Corliss |
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Bowfinger (1999) |
"The best thing about Bowfinger is the way the script by Steve Martin is tooled to his own and Murphy's comic strengths." |
Richard Schickel |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) |
"An hour and a half is a long time for any child -- or beagle -- to be amusing, and the whimsy that attempts to fill the time frequently falters." |
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Boys Don't Cry (1999) |
"The movie lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude, no sizzle--horror under glass." |
Richard Corliss |
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Boyz N the Hood (1991) |
"Even in its warmest moments, there is a fearful chill in this hood's air. And on the hearts of its boyz." |
Richard Schickel |
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Brady Bunch Movie (1995) |
"If dumbness is a large part of our problem, then The Brady Bunch Movie is a small (and oddly cheery) part of its solution." |
Richard Schickel |
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