Tomato 3/4 |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"It is a slice of what happened by one of those it happened to." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"The 150-minute-long, Oscar-nominated foreign-language film, based on a 1987 book, has a rat-a-tat pace and a lurid, film noir quality that captures the chaos and hysteria of the era that bred and sustained them." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) |
"Sumptuous!" |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Babel (2006) |
"The result is, ultimately, a portrait of the global village being built on a foundation of bad judgments made in good faith on a daily basis, which we barely survive by the skin of our teeth and through the kindness of strangers." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"If you go into Baby Boy thinking summer relief, and look as much for edgy laughs as thrills, you won't be disappointed." |
Nick Carter |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Baby Mama is an endearing but exasperating exercise in fertility, a sort of Sisterhood of the Traveling Uterus, that strikes too many false notes to seem anything but too familiar." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
The Bachelor (1999) |
"For those of you who seek cerebral wit, don't break any previous engagements to attend." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2/4 |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"Sensory overload without the flavor." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Bad Company (2002) |
"A fairly fun ride." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bad Education (2004) |
"Pedro Almodovar has draped his trademark explosively visual palette and hard-candy colors in the black crepe of film noir." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"A crass and disappointing remake." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"It uses black comedy to turn a white Christmas into slushy fun." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Bait (2000) |
"Bait is one wild ride that goes down like iced tea on a hot, late-summer night." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"Poignant, melancholic and a little strange, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is an effective rendering of the loss of innocence and the acceptance that some ideals can't survive in a modern world." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ballast (2008) |
"Has the sparse purity of barren trees and the brutal intimacy of a broken vow." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"Unfortunately, it loses its sense of humor as it gets more desperate to find its way to the end." |
Mack Bates |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
"Balzac acts as a fond love letter to literature, but it detracts from those intentions by also being a narcissistic love letter to itself." |
Piet Levy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"The Band's Visit reveals that the strangest places are rich in dreams, joy and hope, and that strangers can share them." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
Bandits (2001) |
"It is so busy rollicking that it never gets rolling." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Bandslam (2009) |
"The outcome isn't exactly in doubt, but the ride is pleasant enough along the way. Connell in particular gives a strong central performance, and a couple of the musical numbers are infectious." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"Hawn and Sarandon form an acting bond that makes The Banger Sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Bank (2002) |
"On balance, The Bank is more asset than debit." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"It's a routine treatment of a heist too outrageous to be believed, even if it is based on a true story." |
Michele Kenner |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Banquet (2006) |
"This may be one of the year's better films, and some of the rawest Shakespeare you'll ever see." |
Graham Killeen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Baran (2002) |
"Juxtaposes a vibrant, modern Iran against the harsh existence of its refugees for a film that is both political and powerfully personal." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"Arcand finds the heart of the matter in every scene and in each monologue." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Barbershop (2002) |
"Manages to offer a heartening lesson about communal triumph over personal gain, while shearing away all the gloss, dreck and dry ends that normally comes with so blunt a message." |
Nick Carter |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
"The high-velocity comic additions provided by Latifah and the flashbacks relating to Eddie's youth are enough to make this sequel one more sharp cut." |
Nick Carter |
Splat 2/4 |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
"Maybe if the plot was more engaging I wouldn't have been so distracted, but Barnyard was pretty disappointing." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Splat 2/4 |
Basic (2003) |
"The truth is Travolta deserves better, but Basic can't handle the truth." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"Basic Instinct 2 is never stupid, but it is insipid and lurid in all the ways you would expect it to be." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"[It] is without a camp bone in its body; it is as self-serious as a self-flagellant penitent, begging forgiveness for past sins." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Battle for Terra (2009) |
"The 3-D animated alien-invasion flick Battle for Terra upends well-worn conventions of the genre and packages them in a compelling story." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Battle of Algiers (1966) |
"It remains a surprisingly instructive and cautionary lesson in the way that populist movements can burn parent states down to their grass roots." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
"The narrative is unclear beyond this one fact: Apes control the planet and humans are their slaves. Oops. Wrong movie -- but not by much." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Be Cool (2005) |
"It's canned Chili for people who hate spicy food." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Loopy, goofy and endearing." |
Michele Kenner |
Splat |
The Beach (2000) |
"Derivative and insubstantial." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) |
"The actors' touching father-and-son exchanges barely miss a beat." |
Piet Levy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beautiful Country (2005) |
"It's beautiful in its simplicity, exhibiting the kindness people are capable of and how profound that can be." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"Good, old-fashioned storytelling, with both a twist and a heart." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006) |
"The interaction between the self-absorbed, oblivious hairdressers and their quiet, stubborn, traditional students runs from the hilarious to the heartbreaking." |
Michele Kenner |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Beauty Shop (2005) |
"The movie finally manages to find its groove in the when director Bille Woodruff steps aside and allows his talented cast to mine the material for all it's worth." |
Mack Bates |
Splat 2/4 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"It could have been an enjoyable light comedy, or a dark tale of obsession, but it doesn't work." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) |
"The best of this year's family-friendly film explosion so far." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3/4 |
Becoming Jane (2007) |
"An evocative portrait of an artistic temperament in defiance of propriety and of how, when such things are repressed, passion and personality are revealed in acts of private ritual and public performance." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
Bedazzled (2000) |
"Mostly the problems are a mediocre script and even more mediocre direction by Harold Ramis." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"Despite its flaws, Bedtime Stories has the charming, giggly spirit of an imaginative toddler." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"Mostly amusing and good-natured, occasionally hysterical, and actually manages to sneak in a subtle lesson about nature." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Bee Season (2005) |
"The premise is intriguing, but the oddly toned screenplay is a mostly opaque and convoluted string of dramatically convenient yet inconsistent assumptions." |
Duane Dudek |
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