Tomato 3/4 |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"The best-told tale Mario Van Peebles has ever filmed. Full of psychological and cultural riches, it's a real gift that he can thank his father for living and giving." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"An episodic fairy tale that dazzles the eyes and sometimes tries the patience." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Babel (2006) |
"Babel swept me up, up, up and carried me away." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Baby Boy (2001) |
"A movie that's, if you'll pardon the expression, fecund with insight, artistry and the courage to express it all in a most original manner." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"The enjoyable-enough comedy Baby Mama may appear to have a few women's issues on its mind, but it's really a female Odd Couple that gets by on the considerable comic talents of its stars." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
The Bachelor (1999) |
"If O'Donnell could come off as half the jerk he's pretending to play the movie might have generated more than one laugh." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"Seemingly endless." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Bad Company (2002) |
"Director Joel Schumacher is probably the only man alive these days who could make a nuclear bomb rattling around New York City in a briefcase into a boring idea." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 4/4 |
Bad Education (2004) |
"A densely layered, darkly funny look at the lies people tell themselves and others in order to make their fantasies come true." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"Faithful to the point of irrelevancy, Richard Linklater's remake of "Bad News Bears" is an OK enough time passer, but given the talent involved, it should have been much, much better." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"It happens to be one of the year's funniest movies, a little one-note at times, but, boy, Zwigoff knows how to make some crazy music from that single note." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Baghead (2008) |
"One of the year's standout indie efforts." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
Baise Moi (2001) |
"Never really goes beyond being impressed by its own naughtiness." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Bait (2000) |
"Bait probably would have been better with a little less plotting and more leisure time for Foxx and his friends to really develop memorable moments." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Ballad of Bering Strait (2002) |
"As one listener who calls in after a radio test play hilariously puts it, 'They sound like Yankees.' Of course, looked at another way, could the end of the Cold War have resulted in anything more cross-culturally beguiling?" |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"The sheer talent of the great Daniel Day-Lewis carries the film through its rough patches, making the movie, first and foremost, another showcase for the world's most gifted actor." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Ballast (2008) |
"The direct, shimmering minimalism with which Hammer tells his story also gets to some fairly real, universal stuff." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"Comic-book logic in action movies has seemingly given way to video-game logic which is almost no logic at all and spooling out Ballistic's inane, convoluted plot is a waste of time." |
Rob Lowman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
"Dai is good with actors and can't go wrong visually in such a natural, beautiful setting." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bamako (2006) |
"Bamako is challenging without a doubt, but Sissako's righteous anger never loses its ability to connect to the heart, even in the film's densest thickets of symbolism." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Bamboozled (2000) |
"Even amid the overload of foul imagery, Lee creates scenes so rich in meaning and implication that they achieve a kind of terrible beauty." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"Both a soulful mood piece and beautiful exploration of cross-cultural communion." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Bandits (2001) |
"An enjoyable and extremely well-crafted mess." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
The Banger Sisters (2002) |
"[Hawn] thoroughly enchants and convinces in what is essentially a comic role, one that rests on her proven strengths but offers ample opportunity to explore her free-spirited persona like never before." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Bank (2002) |
"A movie that you want to get into, whether you can believe it or not." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Baran (2002) |
"An aesthetic triumph ... that never fails to retain behavioral realism." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
"Death has no sting here." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Barbershop (2002) |
"While there are certainly smarter slices of African-American life to be found on the screen, Barbershop is several fades above the average run of street burlesque and middle-class family dramedy." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
"Constantly engaged and intelligent while generally conscious of retaining the entertaining goods, Barbershop 2 is anything but your business-as-usual sequel." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
"Colorful and energetically silly, a little scary and shot through with reassuring and worthy life lessons, it's an untaxing children's movie formula all the way." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Bartleby (2002) |
"While Glover, the irrepressible eccentric of River's Edge, Dead Man and Back to the Future, is perfect casting for the role, he represents Bartleby's main overall flaw." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Basic (2003) |
"I didn't buy a second of it. But I did enjoy how strenuously this picture worked to pull its fast ones." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1/4 |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"While there was little doubt that the sequel would be the awful movie that it is, BI2 compounds the injury by, basically, taking forever to get to what little good, lurid stuff anyone coming to the movie wants to see." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"This 140-minute movie proves to be fitfully engaging but neither as entertaining nor as brainy as it needs to be." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Battle in Heaven (2006) |
"To say that sacred and profane imagery are daringly juxtaposed here would be seriously understating the case." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"The film’s default position is to always fall back on anti-capitalist rhetoric whenever dialogue and drama grow too banal." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
"Battlefield Earth is a shrill, hollow and unintelligible movie with no redeeming value whatsoever." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Baxter (2005) |
"It contains a wry, throwback charm." |
Evan Henerson |
Splat 1/4 |
Be Cool (2005) |
"Contains a cornucopia of cliched comic characters." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"Whimsy overwhelms this sweetly innocuous tribute to DIY video - which is hobbled enough by its core premise of guys shooting their own versions of popular movies on VHS." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) |
"James Toback's movies can always be made better. Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped proves the point." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Beaufort (2008) |
"Beautiful in its way and terrible in its implications, Beaufort marks Cedar as a distinctive and impassioned talent." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Beautiful (2000) |
"[Driver] gives a technically impressive and effectively scary performance. But then, so does the Terminator." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beautiful Country (2005) |
"The Beautiful Country charts the course of one such young man with sensitivity, some generic hand-wringing and, ultimately, a gentle steeliness" |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Beautiful Creatures (2001) |
"Celebrates disgusting behavior as much as any Guy Ritchie film, only without the touches of wit and characterization that make Ritchie's work palatable." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Beautiful Losers (2008) |
"This is a pleasant enough visual romp with surprisingly few down notes." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"[Crowe's] work here is indeed a thing of beauty." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006) |
"... a light and lively fly-on-the-wall piece that is occasionally aware of its own absurdity ..." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Beauty in Trouble (2008) |
"It's enthralling, human drama of the kind that's become sort of an old school pleasure." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Beauty Shop (2005) |
"You already know if you like this kind of thing or not. But if you do, there's little not to like." |
Bob Strauss |
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