Baadasssss! (2004)

"Baadasssss! is one bad movie -- and I mean that in the most affectionate sense."

Bad Boys II (2003)

"Black Hawk Down on laughing gas."

Bad News Bears (2005)

"The charm of listening to 10- and 11-year-old children swearing at one another begins to wear off quickly."

Bandits (2001)

"Bandits is at its best when Willis and Thornton are front and center doing their deadpan Mutt and Jeff."

The Barbarian Invasions (2003)

"As fondly remembered as [The Bill Chill and The Decline of the American Empire] are, Arcand's Barbarian Invasions surpasses them both."

Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)

"As fragmented and heavy-handed as the first installment was smart, funny and, yes, at times unexpectedly sweet."

Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

"Stone's performance is so deliriously over the top that it turns almost every line she speaks into high camp."

Batman Begins (2005)

"Christopher Nolan has loaded the story with enough myth and emotion that it would not be silly to compare it with the samurai tales of Akira Kurosawa."

Be Cool (2005)

"Follows the form of the original, but always to diminishing effect."

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

"You can practically feel director Ron Howard standing over your tear ducts, straining to extract every last salty drop."

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

"A sporadically brilliant escape that at times stops to preen and pose, like that he-man lout Gaston."

Before Sunset (2004)

"Proves itself well worth the nine-year wait, and for a sequel so squarely rooted in the first film, it stands lightly on its own two feet."

Behind the Sun (2001)

"Salles ... has found the beauty not only in this terrible place, but in a story by novelist Ismail Kadaré that originally was set in Albania."

Being Julia (2004)

"The play is supposed to serve as both the centerpiece and the climax of the film, which may explain why it wobbles until the end."

Beloved (1998)

"It's heartfelt, praiseworthy and amazingly faithful to Toni Morrison's complex Pulitzer Prize-winning novel!"

Best in Show (2000)

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Bewitched (2005)

"Any picture that makes you yearn for the dramatic work of Dick Sargent has got problems."

Beyond the Sea (2004)

"This is one of those rare movies that's so bad it's good, with lavish production numbers in which Spacey sings out of sync with the voice track and dances out of sync with his own feet."

The Big Bounce (2004)

"Slack is something The Big Bounce, even at a trifling 88 minutes, already has in abundance."

Big Fish (2003)

"Clocking in at two hours, it runs way too long for a flight of fancy, packs a couple of false endings, and, a first for Burton, feels flat and familiar, like recycled Ray Bradbury."

Billy Elliot (2000)

"A bit of working-class malarkey so unrelentingly sweet, so determinedly dotty, it makes the teeth ache."

Birthday Girl (2002)

"An anemic little movie."

Black Hawk Down (2001)

"Invokes a ferocious cinéma-vérité style to make us not only see, but also feel, the destructive power of modern warfare."

Blade (1998)

"A hyper smorgasbord of a horror film!"

Blood Car

"[Director] Orr pulls out all the stops, even when he should leave them in, and the result is a joke that can't quite sustain the movie's running time."