Tomato B |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"Mario Van Peebles, bearing an uncanny resemblance to his father, illuminates the soul of a man driven by a belief in himself and a love for his community." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"[Nacer] Khemir, a poet and a painter as well as a filmmaker... uses the endless, timeless desert landscape to create an existence in which past and present coexist." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Babel (2006) |
"Holds you tightly within its grip through its lengthy running time and forces you to empathize with a large cast of international characters and their individual quests in a visceral way." |
William Arnold |
Tomato C+ |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"... an attempt to confront and challenge the legacy of cultural images based on killers, gang-bangers, and womanizing studs..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Writer/director Michael McCullers... pacing is poor and he doesn't know how to showcase the small-screen chemistry of Fey and Poehler on the big screen." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
The Bachelor (1999) |
"An innocuous waste-of-time." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
Backseat (2008) |
"Backseat satisfies itself with small observations and minor breakthroughs of self-awareness." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"Watching a Bruckheimer with natural comics like Smith and Lawrence makes it all go down easily. If you like this type of movie, that is." |
Ellen Kim |
Splat D |
Bad Company (2002) |
"The film was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles: wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one (and no one)." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Bad Education (2004) |
"Almodovar expertly weaves the three levels of his 30-year saga into a single, compelling narrative that comes together with the unmistakable satisfaction of a story well told." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Bad Guy (2001) |
"Uncompromising, unpleasant and emotionally brutal, this twisted love story of emotional bondage is oddly compelling." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"Simply another in a long line of utterly unnecessary remakes that, having nothing new to say, clutch at crassness and dumbness." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat D- |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"It never musters anything close to genuine wit, and the glee with which it chronicles the Santa's relentless verbal abuse of a vulnerable child is profoundly disturbing." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Baghead (2008) |
"... there's a sly wit to the way the filmmakers mix and match and upend genres." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Baise Moi (2001) |
"Fetishizes the very actions it pretends to decry." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat 7/10 |
Bait (2000) |
"With his patter kept in low gear and his dramatic scenes played with flat sincerity, [Foxx is] simply not compelling enough to center the film." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"Miller's films take us into moments of lives that we feel we should not be watching; their intimacies are as skinless and raw as their rite-of-passage situations." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Ballast (2008) |
"... the cinematic equivalent of a miniature, a piece carved out of the stories of three troubled and damaged souls..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Ballerina (2008) |
"Anyone who knows about ballet will find much to recognize in the lives of these young women, but for those who do not, the film will be a revelation." |
R. M. Campbell |
Tomato A |
Ballets Russes (2005) |
"It captures the heart and spirit of one of the 20th century's most fabled ballet companies, with a history that stretches continents and decades." |
R. M. Campbell |
Splat C |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"The story would qualify as your basic spy opera... if there was any feeling to it, but the film has no more engagement than a big-screen video game" |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"The reason Balls of Fury works as well as it does, aside from its low aspirations, is because of the charm of Fogler in the lead." |
Andy Spletzer |
Tomato B |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
"... an unusual angle on the era, and a passionate paean to the power of books, ideas and art." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Bamako (2006) |
"Free of the indignant self-righteousness of Michael Moore's lowbrow sloganeering, Abderrahmane Sissako's poetic drama offers a clear-sighted examination of Third World economic collapse." |
Bill White |
Splat C |
Bamboozled (2000) |
"Confused message." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"It is a small message, but a sincere one, about the solitude that separates us, and how the expression of this solitude can bring the unlikeliest of people together." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Bandits (2001) |
"Far from original and never exactly a laugh riot, it nonetheless manages to comes off as a passably entertaining little crime comedy." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Bang Rajan (2004) |
"The thuddingly blunt epic is obvious and intermittently clumsy... yet winning in its own charmingly naive right." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"It's the most showy vehicle [Hawn has] had in ages, and she puts the pedal to the floor." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
The Bank (2002) |
"The film is not without its flaws, but it sports a terrific production design that integrates magically into the story -- as well as another top-notch performance by Anthony LaPaglia." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"Roger Donaldson... juggles a complicated story with oodles of peripheral characters without dropping a subplot." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Baran (2002) |
"The faces of its inarticulate characters tell the story, and Majidi has put some amazing faces on the screen." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"Finds a grace that pulls us in even though its focus is a man who is cantankerously self-deluded, obstinately blind and smug about his past transgressions." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
Barbershop (2002) |
"Ice Cube has never seemed more rooted or believable as a character, first-time director Tim Story is very good at keeping his ensemble under control and in balance, and the movie makes a cogent, optimistic and mostly entertaining slice of ghetto life." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
"For all of the snappy verbal sparring and romantic complications that embellish the film, it is ultimately about community..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato 8/10 |
Barenaked in America (2000) |
"A funny, spirited film driven by the band's sense of humor and energetic performances." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat 2/4 |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
"[T]he culture of juvenile pranks and misdemeanors and a nightly hoedown that combines a Vegas casino and a cattle-town country bar is more appropriate for older kids..." |
Sean Axmaker |
- |
Bartleby (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat D |
Basic (2003) |
"Insipid, overcooked and dull." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"In a better movie, this grand-dame performance might have been fun, but it's surrounded here by an impossibly dull and unsatisfying whodunit plot and unintentionally funny dialogue." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
The Basket (1999) |
""The Basket" is woven from such promising threads that you wish it was better." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A- |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"Dark, dazzling and engagingly original." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Battle in Heaven (2006) |
"Some audiences will find it an endurance test and Reygadas doesn't make it easy with his confrontational imagery, but he provokes emotions not often explored on screen." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"Townsend's efforts to be honest to the spirit of the event carry the film through its sloganeering and familiar backstage dramas." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) |
"If there is a delicate story of forgiveness, friendship and family buried somewhere in Erica Beeney's script, Potelle and Rankin haven't managed to find it under the throes of empty rebellion and painless triumph." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Battlefield Baseball (2003) |
"Part martial-arts revenge parody and part faux zombie spectacle on a field of nightmares, and directed in the overripe, hysterical style of Japan's anime farces..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat 5/10 |
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
"The plot depends on the most ludicrous decisions and senseless actions ever made by a thinking race." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
The Baxter (2005) |
"He's a sweet guy, sure, but he has all the romance and personality of a hot-water bottle, and so does the film..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Bazi (2004) |
"It's less a story than a slice of life cut out of an ordinary afternoon and Gholam Reza Ramezani captures the obstinacy and ego and self-absorption of childhood without sentimentality." |
Sean Axmaker |
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