Tomato 3/5 |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"Effectively raw and stylish." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Babel (2006) |
"Babel is supposed to be a cry of humanist anguish that echoes -- in four languages -- around the world. Why does it feel as much like an elaborate game of middlebrow post-millennial Clue?" |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"Pootie Tang this ain't." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Baby Mama offers ample evidence that Fey and Poehler are more than ready for prime-time screen gigs. Let's hope they team again for a comedy that delivers all that it promises." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Babysitters (2008) |
"The script has a stale air, like something that was doing the rounds for a long time before David Ross found backers to make a film out of it." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"Hulk plays like Three Sisters in comparison; T-3 is a talky thinkfest and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle a model of restraint." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/5 |
Bad Company (2002) |
"Feels like the kind of movie that might have been designed by a marketing software program for MBA studio executives." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Bad Education (2004) |
"An exercise in stylish, seductive and cinematically self-referential finesse." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Bad Guy (2001) |
"His fascination with allegory and symbols is evident here, too, but his narrative strays too far from the dreamlike towards the just plain dumbfounding." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"It's Cage's best work in years." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat 2/5 |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"It rides a one-trick reindeer that tires well before the second reel, and it mistakes crudity and cruelty for humour." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Baghead (2008) |
"he brothers Duplass have a knack for the to-and-fro of modern relationships. Their horror sense is less acute, but at least they understand that when the budget is low, it's best to keep the villain in the shadows." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Bailey's Billions (2005) |
"It's an outbreak of the dreaded Talking Animal Syndrome, the most feared of kid-flick contagions." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"The entire movie seems to be suffering from the same suffocating disease as Jack." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ballast (2008) |
"Debut writer/director Lance Hammer has rendered [Ballast] with something that can only be called radiant austerity." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ballets Russes (2005) |
"Geller and Goldfine orchestrate a ballet movie that is every bit as entertaining, gossipy and relevant as it is historically accurate." |
Susan Walker |
Splat |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"Some movies were made for the big screen, some for the small screen, and some, like Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, were made for the palm screen." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"The movie's big lug of a lead, Dan Fogler...could be dismissed as a poor man's Jack Black." |
Rob Salem |
Tomato 3/5 |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
"A delightful fable about the enduring value of literature." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato |
Bamboozled (2000) |
"Bamboozled is startling and uncomfortable." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"There's just one thing wrong with The Band's Visit: it's fiction, not a documentary. You want a story as warm as this to be real, because good news is scarce from the Middle East." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Bandits (2001) |
"The movie has a one-take feel about it, containing vast stretches where nothing much happens. The cinematography looks amateurish, often badly composed and poorly lit." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bandslam (2009) |
"Bandslam consistently exceeds current teen-flick standards thanks to its snarky humour, its strong musical sequences and its ability to convey the excitement the characters feel both about performing and forming new friendships." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 2/5 |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"It's an audience flattering Hollywood movie about the redemptive powers of vulgarity and joy of letting it all hang out. Even if it isn't yours." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"Awatchable, but dull action flick with not enough body count to satisfy the average mixed martial arts fanboy." |
Tony Wong |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"This may be just another bank job, like many you've seen before, but here's the payoff: it's a heist that actually looks real for once." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 5/5 |
Baran (2002) |
"It's the saddest story of love in a long while, yet liberating in the way it instils a sense of oneness with all humanity." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"Encourages us to examine our own humanity, and to laugh and cry along with some familiar reprobates who are all too human, and all the more loveable for it." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Barbershop (2002) |
"As a slapstick adventure, Barbershop is unfunny and unoriginal. But as a character-driven drama, Barbershop works well, with its quirky, sweet characters and authentic dialogue." |
Daphne Gordon |
Tomato 3/5 |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
"The connection between the still-potent issues of the civil rights movement and the rich vs. poor economic disparities that continue today -- although 'The Man' could now be either black or white -- gives Barbershop genuine potency." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
"Could qualify as a case study in just how quickly and thoroughly computer-animated studio releases have declined to a state of inspiration-depleted, assembly-line anthropomorphism." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 3/5 |
The Baroness and the Pig (2004) |
"How did writer/director Michael Mackenzie manage to mix all the ingredients for an absorbing historic drama -- an A-list cast, lavish set and costume design, a score by Philip Glass and a gorgeous chateau setting -- into a B-grade gothic melodrama?" |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bart Got a Room (2009) |
"Bart Got A Room is an affectionately nuanced comedy of manners whose focus is first love and the navigation of complex relationships." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 3/5 |
Basic (2003) |
"Travolta is a vital presence that constantly holds our attention, even when the script is threatening to lose it." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/4 |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"Even the ice pick looks like it really doesn't want to be there." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"Apart from the lumbering pacing and embalmed tone, the movie is densely forested with oaken dialogue, wasteful in its casting...and incoherently over-edited in its action sequences." |
Geoff Pevere |
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Battle in Heaven (2006) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"If current events hold, Battle in Seattle could look like prophecy as well as history." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/4 |
Battle Of The Brave (2006) |
"History is long, life is short. It's certainly too short for the sort of overblown, melodramatic, pseudo-epic filmmaking Quebec's Jean Beaudin tried to foist on Francophone audiences two years ago." |
John Terauds |
Splat |
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
"Battlefield Earth is as relentlessly grim as it is artless, and Elia Cmiral's bombastic score also makes it painful to listen to." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Be Cool (2005) |
"Like being spritzed by a bottle of stale seltzer." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Long before the movie ends, it slips right off the sprockets." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
The Beach (2000) |
"DiCaprio has shifted from giving performance -- and often good performance -- to giving persona, and The Beach is nothing if not a vehicle engineered for that shift." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beaches of Agnes (2009) |
"Intensely personal and universally adaptable, The Beaches of Agnès is at once Varda's gift to posterity, and to a world that that undervalues the small and seemingly insignificant events through which we drift unconsciously, but which leave a mark." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 3/4 |
Beaufort (2008) |
"As long as soldiers have gone into battle they have struggled with the rightness of their actions and their purpose in the field -- no matter how firm their resolve at the outset." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beautiful Country (2005) |
"[A] graceful and yet harrowing drama." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Beautiful Creatures (2001) |
"Bloody and profane." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"Since love conquers all, you know everything will turn out okay. It's practically a mathematical formula." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Beauty Shop (2005) |
"Looks, feels and unfolds with measured sitcom familiarity, right down to the storming of characters through the shop's doors and the relentless crossfire of sassy putdowns." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"Diane Keaton has a lot to answer for in her willingness to portray Hollywood's idea of middle-aged womanhood." |
Susan Walker |
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