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B-52 (2001) |
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J. R. Jones |
Tomato |
B.A.P.S. (1997) |
"t's a celebration of bonds that are thicker than blood and demonstrates above all that fame-and-fortune fantasies can blur divisions of race and class as persuasively as they can exaggerate them." |
Lisa Alspector |
Splat 2/4 |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"Mario's done a good job of depicting Melvin's accomplishments. Yet it seems to me that he's still selling his father's legacy short." |
Ben Schwartz |
Tomato |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"Part thriller, part social history, this tense 2008 drama traces the rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang." |
J. R. Jones |
Tomato |
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"Cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari (Offside) conjures magic from an array of pastels, shimmering lights, and enigmatic ruins." |
Andrea Gronvall |
Tomato |
Babe (1995) |
"The characters (both animal and human) are solidly conceived, and the storytelling and visuals are expertly fashioned." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
Babel (2006) |
"The filmmakers don't seem to understand or care much about many of these people, but they use them to unload ideas about violence, communication, and tribal misunderstandings -- trading on suffering as they aim for cosmic wisdom." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Babes in Arms (1939) |
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Dave Kehr |
- |
Babes in Toyland (1961) |
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Dave Kehr |
- |
Babes on Broadway (1941) |
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Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Baby Doll (1956) |
"One of Elia Kazan's most underrated movies is his only pure comedy." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Baby Face (1933) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Baby Face Nelson (1957) |
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Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Baby Geniuses (1999) |
"The hokey dialogue and witless physical gags keep everything painful and hectoring." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Baby It's You (1983) |
"As a filmmaker, Sayles still seems more likable than incisive or original, but it's a likability with a certain brilliance." |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"The script favors routine Odd Couple gags over the sort of comic contemplation of motherhood a writer like Fey might have brought to the subject." |
J. R. Jones |
- |
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) |
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Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"A must-see only for fans of snowmobile chases." |
Cliff Doerksen |
- |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) |
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Dave Kehr |
- |
Bachelor Mother (1939) |
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Dave Kehr |
- |
The Bachelor Party (1957) |
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Back Against the Wall (2002) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Back to Ararat (1993) |
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Tomato |
Back to School (1986) |
"It's a good character for Dangerfield, one that veers him away from the 'I don't get no respect' pathos that comes too easily to him, and enough attention is paid to the minimal plot to integrate Dangerfield's classically constructed one-liners." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Back to the Future (1985) |
"Director Robert Zemeckis confronts the oedipal heart of the time-travel genre with this zestfully tasteless 1985 tale about a teenager (Michael J. Fox) who is projected back to 1955 and then must arrange the romance of his parents." |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Back to the Future Part II (1989) |
"By the end, you may feel that you've just sat through a feature-length commercial for both part one (which has to be seen to make this sequel comprehensible) and part three (a trailer for it literally ends part two)." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Back to the Future Part III (1990) |
"This is a good deal more likable than part two because the product plugs have been held back, and Zemeckis is clearly having fun alluding to his favorite westerns; there's also a certain sweetness and charm in the Lloyd-Steenburgen romance." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Backbeat (1994) |
"There's nothing very profound here, but we do at least get a nice handling of period and milieu, and pretty good performances of the songs." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
Backdraft (1991) |
"Visually speaking, the film does pretty well with fire-as-spectacle, less well with everything else (Howard tends to trot out fuzzy-toned Spielbergian backlighting on any pretext)." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Bad Behavior (1993) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
Bad Day at Black Rock (1954) |
"An action film for people who don't like action films." |
Dave Kehr |
- |
Bad Dreams (1988) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965) |
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Tomato |
Bad Lieutenant (1992) |
"There's an undeniable formal elegance in the way Ferrara, who coauthored the script with Zoe Lund, frames and holds certain shots, and Keitel certainly gives his all." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Bad Medicine (1985) |
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Tomato |
The Bad News Bears (1976) |
"Michael Ritchie keeps his dead-end cynicism in check and produces a genuinely funny comedy about a Little League team managed by a lovably drunken Walter Matthau." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"Zwigoff and company wring some laughs out of it, though the tone is uniformly mean and vulgar." |
J. R. Jones |
- |
The Bad Seed (1956) |
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Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) |
"A well-done thriller with Kurosawa's usual social overtones." |
Dave Kehr |
- |
Bad Timing (1980) |
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Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Baghead (2008) |
"A raw, wickedly clever comedy that also includes moments of genuine terror." |
J. R. Jones |
- |
The Baker's Wife (1938) |
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Don Druker |
- |
Balance (1974) |
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Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Ball of Fire (1941) |
"A delight." |
Don Druker |
Tomato |
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) |
"Sam Peckinpah followed The Wild Bunch with this intimate, eccentric, appealing 1970 comedy, which treats many of the same themes in a soft, regretful mode." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Ballast (2008) |
"Lance Hammer shot this debut feature in natural light, using nonprofessional actors, and with its jump cuts, music-free soundtrack, and plaintive Mississippi Delta landscapes it seems as raw as the characters' emotions." |
J. R. Jones |
Splat |
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
"Before seeing this film I couldn't understand why the producers had given it a subtitle; afterward I realized Ecks vs. Sever was probably the full script." |
J. R. Jones |
- |
Ballot Measure 9 (1995) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"This is pretty thin soup, but the players are spirited and the jokes generally offbeat." |
J. R. Jones |
Tomato 4/4 |
Bamako (2006) |
"[Director] Sissako somehow manages to reconcile the passionate words of the debate and the mundane activities surrounding it, but he seems most interested in noting and even marveling at the subtle comedy of their coexistence." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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