Baadasssss! (2004)

"A color-saturated celebration of cinematic pleasure and filial love."

Baby Boy (2001)

"[Singleton] He means for this to be r,38p,11p revelatory, but it is instead exhausting."

Bad Boys II (2003)

"This summer's most dynamic action movie."

Bad Education (2004)

"Almodóvar's most fiendishly crafted, emotionally complicated film."

Bad Santa (2003)

"There are laughs along the way. But too many of them are the sort that send you out into the cold worrying for your own humanity."

Band of Outsiders (1964)

"The structure of the film feels like freedom. And truth."

The Banger Sisters (2002)

"A shrewdly observed, relatively subtle and gentle satire that exudes genuine empathy and understanding for all its varied characters."

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

"A generous and infectious blending of the old school with the fresh."

Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

"Basic Instinct 2 seems aimed at two audiences: men in raincoats in dark theaters and graduate students in film studies."

Battle for Terra (2009)

"Battle for Terra turns an overly familiar sci-fi cliche on its head."

Battlefield Earth (2000)

"You don't watch it -- you survive it."

Be Cool (2005)

"It can't decide if it's a comedy or a musical -- rocking ballads by Milian and a duet with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler are sweet interludes but ruinous to any sense of paced humor."

Bear Cub (2004)

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The Beautiful Country (2005)

"The culminating shot in this graceful tale of Binh -- the Vietnamese son of a U.S. soldier -- reminds the viewer one final time how methodically compassionate Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland's film has been from lovely start to loving end."

The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006)

"Any film that raises this many interesting questions is worth seeing, though Beauty Academy never goes quite deep enough to become essential."

Because I Said So (2007)

"I am about to issue a declaration that amounts to blasphemy among many film critics, fashionistas and women of a certain age: I am so over Diane Keaton."

Becoming Jane (2007)

"This 'haven't we seen this before?' sensibility is anything but a downside. It's the draw of director Julian Jarrold's good-looking, entirely pleasant revel."

Beeswax (2009)

"Beeswax reminds viewers that in talkative films much can go unspoken. For writer-director Andrew Bujalski these betwixt-between, hem-haw spaces are the places to be."

Before Sunset (2004)

"How often does a visual medium make such an elegant argument about the beauty of language, even as it asserts its right to tell a story and move us with its vision?"

Beijing Bicycle (2002)

"Well before it's over, Beijing Bicycle begins spinning its wheels."

Beloved (1998)

"There are many strengths, including the cinematography, sound design and a hauntingly allusive score."

Best in Show (2000)

"The movie is light as a lap dog, and often just as lovable."

Bewitched (2005)

"Ephron casts a spell full of romantic-comedy charm even as it goes about the post-modern business of toying with our fondness for pop-cultural baubles like Bewitched. Consider the sparkling mood Ephron maintains as irreverent reverence."

Beyond the Mat (1999)

"Beyond the Mat transcends its subject, pro wrestling, to become a wrenching, sobering, emotional glimpse at the lives of some men trapped by the aging process."

Big Blue, The: Director's Cut (1988)

"What he and his writers have cooked up defies our patience."