Splat short |
B. Monkey (1999) |
"Shows stretch marks from the start." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato short |
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) |
"Miller's confident, technically astounding direction produces challenging ideas at every turn." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"Baby Boy, for all of its naiveté and indulgences, has some humility in it as well, which does its creator good." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C- |
Bad Company (2001) |
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Jason Clark |
Splat |
Bad Company (2002) |
"Joel Schumacher couldn't produce a sincere moment of cinema if he had a gun pointed at his head." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat F |
Baise Moi (2001) |
"If a patron paid 25 cents to watch this arty rubbish in a dark and smelly theater in Times Square, he would be sorely disappointed." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat C+ |
Bait (2000) |
"It's unfortunate that all Bait has to offer is a decent action set piece or two." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat D+ |
Bamboozled (2000) |
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Joe McGovern |
Splat C+ |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"A middling, overly predictable comedy." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Baran (2002) |
"Its story is delicate and moving, and the film is a wholly commendable effort, if not quite as successful as Majidi's previous works." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C |
Barbershop (2002) |
"It may be an easy swipe to take, but this Barbershop just doesn't make the cut." |
Nick Schager |
Splat F |
Bartleby (2002) |
"The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joffé and Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat F |
Bats (1999) |
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Joshua Vasquez |
Splat short |
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
"So depressing that you can't even relish just how awful it really is." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato short |
The Beach (2000) |
"The glimpses of paradise are so intoxicating that it's easy to ignore the cliches and enjoy the drama anyway." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat 5/10 |
The Beach (2000) |
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Joe McGovern |
Splat C |
Beau Travail (1999) |
"Winds up as a disappointment due to its languid pacing and a plastic sensibility as to what constitutes film art. In other words, it's typically French." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat D- |
Beautiful (2000) |
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Joe McGovern |
Splat D |
Beautiful Creatures (2001) |
"[Has] the most lopsided and nauseating cast of male pigs since Ridley Scott conned his way to a so-called feminist victory in Thelma and Louise." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat D |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"It is truly sad how the masses will seem to fall for any movie that wraps serious, probing subject matter around a conventional love story." |
Jason Clark |
Splat D |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"Howard softens the hard edge of real schizophrenia with movie gloss as cotton candy, shaping the troubled history of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr. into feel good escapism." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat C+ |
Bedazzled (2000) |
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Rob Morlino |
Tomato B- |
Beefcake (1999) |
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Jason Clark |
Splat C+ |
Before Night Falls (2000) |
"The picture is ultimately an indulgent bore, admirable yet ineffective." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat C- |
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) |
"Feel(s) like a seasick hybrid of Top Gun and Saving Private Ryan." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat short |
Being John Malkovich (1999) |
"Loses momentum tacking on countless plot twists that, while unpredictable, are tiresome and obnoxious." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B+ |
Being John Malkovich (1999) |
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Joe McGovern |
Splat D |
The Believer (2002) |
"The definitive example of a wolf in sheep's clothing--a slick, manipulative, amateurishly acted, blandly shot, foolishly plotted drama." |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato short |
Beloved (1998) |
"A complex, difficult, unyielding vision of memory and personal experience." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B- |
Below (2002) |
"...has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive. It's a sly wink to The Others without becoming a postmodern joke, made creepy by its "men in a sardine can" warped logic." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat C |
Besieged (1998) |
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Joe McGovern |
Tomato C+ |
Best in Show (2000) |
"It's certainly among the funniest films of the year ... but I'm not sure that seeing Show in the theater is absolutely necessary." |
Rob Morlino |
Splat |
Better Luck Tomorrow (2003) |
"It is never quite as shocking as it thinks it might be and grows wearying after about an hour, when the movie seems to run out of options that might work" |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B- |
Beyond the Mat (1999) |
"The real meat of the movie comes in the many intimate moments that Blaustein's camera catches." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat short |
Bicentennial Man (1999) |
"Best left on the shelf to collect dust." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B+ |
Bicentennial Man (1999) |
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Rob Morlino |
Splat |
Big Bad Love (2002) |
"The worst kind of independent; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors" |
Jason Clark |
Splat D |
Big Blue, The: Director's Cut (1988) |
"Is an extra 50 minutes of bad footage reason enough to re-release an already problematic movie? I wouldn't think so." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato short |
Big Daddy (1999) |
"I wouldn’t call it good, but I’d surely call it a good time." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat D |
Big Daddy (1999) |
"At least neither the little kid nor Sandler ever moves his bowels on-screen." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat C+ |
Big Momma's House (2000) |
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Rob Morlino |
Splat short |
Billy Elliot (2000) |
"Daldry can piece together a competent montage sequence, but he has no idea how to hold your attention without resorting to inspid, watery melodrama." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B- |
Billy Elliot (2000) |
"The quality of the performances help pardon the uneven slushiness of the story." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat C |
Birthday Girl (2002) |
"The tonally inept picture doesn't even seem to have pretenses towards being either seductive or thrilling" |
Joe McGovern |
Splat F |
Black and White (1999) |
"Amateurish in the worst possible way and sorely lacking ideas or any sign of intelligent life." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato short |
Black Cat White Cat (1998) |
"A hilarious screwball masterpiece." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat 1/5 |
Black Hawk Down (2001) |
"Take away its timely guise of patriotism, and it's a real horror show, more about murder than military prowess." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat D |
Blade 2 (2002) |
"Rambles on in a disjointed, substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequence to the next." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat short |
Bless the Child (2000) |
"As ponderous and pointless as a supernatural thriller can possibly get." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
Blood Simple (1984) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jason Clark |
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