Splat 2.5/5 |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"A reminder that good intentions don't always make for good movies." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"The Baader-Meinhof Complex is not an easy film to watch; its violence is ugly and brutish. And there's a lot of it." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato |
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) |
"Even more fun than the original!" |
Bob Fenster |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Babel (2006) |
"As each story comes to its conclusion, some characters rise above, while others are crushed under the weight of the day's events. The tales are equal parts miracle and tragedy. And that's often what life is, which makes Babel ring true." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"The humor outweighs the holes in the story, Fey and Poehler look to be a comedy team built to last -- let's hope so -- and those who find Judd Apatow's comedies lacking in decent female roles have found their film." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Splat 1/5 |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"Take away its endless trail of bodies, and Bad Boys II is a stale, tedious, woefully acted movie that wastes the talents of Smith and proves once and for all that Lawrence has precious little talent at all." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato |
Bad Company (2002) |
"Despite its cliché-ridden premise, Bad Company often works simply because there's so much talent on the screen." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bad Education (2004) |
"Taken at face value, Bad Education is about molestation, but from a wider perspective, it's about love, loss of innocence and the desperate quest for redemption." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"Nicolas Cage is so gleefully over-the-top as the troubled cop of the title that you will either be repulsed or fascinated by his performance and, since it lives or dies by it, the movie itself." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"Nobody plays a dissolute scalawag like Billy Bob Thornton." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"The movie actually has a heart -- a coal-black heart, but a heart nonetheless -- and it's bitingly funny." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 3/5 |
Baghead (2008) |
"The truth eventually comes out, as it must, and it's not exactly a stunner." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Splat 2/5 |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"It's all strange and mildly unpleasant and self-consciously arty." |
Randy Cordova |
Splat |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"I'm guessing the director is a magician. After all, he took three minutes of dialogue, 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
"The film is episodic, and most of the scenes are evocative and charming." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Bandidas (2006) |
"Silly, breezy fun, fueled by playful chemistry between its charismatic, appealing stars." |
Randy Cordova |
Splat |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"Hawn and Sarandon manage to pull off the transition back into party girls, if barely. I'm just glad Bea Arthur and Betty White passed on the script." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"It gets right the twists, the humor, the tension, the sexiness and, yes, the violence of a really fun, taut British thriller." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato |
Barbershop (2002) |
"Frank Capra meets Friday" |
Bill Muller |
Splat 3/5 |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
"The concept has eroded from pleasant surprise to charmless franchise, which is ironic, considering that the plot of the second film involves competition from cookie-cutter corporate invaders." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
"It's quick, it's painless, and there are enough laughs (and a few tears) throughout to keep everything moving along." |
Randy Cordova |
Tomato 3/5 |
Basic (2003) |
"There's no denying the film has a tendency to trip over its own ungainly strides, but it has enough firepower to entertain action fans -- as long as they don't look too closely." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 1/4 |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"Trust your basic instinct and avoid the worst sequel since Staying Alive." |
Scott Craven |
Tomato 4/5 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"Finally, a Batman movie that's actually about Batman." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 3/5 |
Battle in Heaven (2006) |
"Reygadas' gift for imagery is undeniable, but for most viewers, Battle in Heaven will offer not enlightenment but frustration." |
Kerry Lengel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Baxter (2005) |
"There are enough laughs that those who enjoyed The 40-Year-Old Virgin might want to take The Baxter for a whirl." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Be Cool (2005) |
"
Even Travolta seems disinterested in this bloated sequel, which revisits all the old gags but doesn't possess a tenth of the energy found in the original." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Perhaps Gondry realized the sum wasn't going to be greater than its parts and just left it at this: two halves, one more intriguing than the other, that don't add up to a coherent whole." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) |
"None of this would work without Duris' simmering performance as Tom, a person who's struggling to find his true calling." |
Bill Muller |
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The Beautiful Country (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006) |
"This movie shows us a small bit of daily life as lived by real people. For that alone, we should be grateful." |
Richard Nilsen |
Splat 1/5 |
Beauty Shop (2005) |
"At this point, any humor left in the Barbershop series is limited to a few stray clippings on the floor." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/5 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"Because I Said So is a movie about people we don't like doing things no one would ever do." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) |
"Most of the time, you can't go wrong with kids and dogs. Then there's Because of Winn-Dixie." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
Becoming Jane (2007) |
"...a beautifully directed film from Julian Jarrold that draws as much strength from the depiction of the 18th-century English countryside (Ireland, actually) as from the performances of Anne Hathaway as Austen and James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy." |
Annemarie Moody |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"The novelization of the screenplay probably would make a pretty decent bedtime story." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"If it's not Toy Story, well, what is? But Bee Movie offers plenty of entertainment for all ages -- though, truth be told, the older the better." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bee Season (2005) |
"The intellectual grist is intriguing, but one can't escape the feeling that Bee Season is only skimming the surface of its source material." |
Kerry Lengel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Beerfest (2006) |
"Beerfest serves up a keg's worth of fun." |
Annemarie Moody |
- |
Before Sunset (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is often an uncomfortable film to sit through, but the rewards it offers make it well worth the effort." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Being Julia (2004) |
"Bening brings such vitality to the role that she sweeps aside all the quibbles, and you have to sit back and enjoy what is a masterly performance by a great actor playing a great actor." |
Richard Nilsen |
Splat 3/5 |
Bella (2007) |
"It ends like a TV show, and everyone has learned a neat little lesson. Phooey." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato |
Beloved (1998) |
"Like a great book, Beloved builds up, through accretion of detail, so much information and revelation that we begin to live the lives with these people." |
Bob Fenster |
- |
Below (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato |
Below (2002) |
"...begins with promise, but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 1.5/5 |
The Benchwarmers (2006) |
"It's so bad, it should be viewed only through a pinhole in a shoebox, much like an eclipse." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Benji Off the Leash (2004) |
"Couldn't they find a dog that at least looked like the original? This bowser is fluffier than Benji ever was, and is mostly dingy white." |
Randy Cordova |
Tomato 4/5 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"To the shock of cynics in the audience waiting for this film fantasy to be lame, Beowulf turns out to be exciting, fun and occasionally breathtaking. No question it's a popcorn flick, but it's cheesy only when it chooses to be." |
Kerry Lengel |
Splat 2/5 |
The Best Two Years (2004) |
"After seeing The Best Two Years, you might want to stop by a construction site to see which is more interesting, this movie or watching paint dry." |
Bill Muller |
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