Splat 1/5 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"His approach has simply been to cram everything he knows about the Baader Meinhof years into a running time of two and a half hours. It is really the most unhelpful and unenlightening film on the subject you could possibly imagine." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Michael McCullers' script is soft-headed to the point of inanity." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"Kassovitz creates a grungy dystopia, but the action has the crazed, over-edited ruckus of a death-metal video and the top "international" cast is notable only for being miscast." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bamako (2006) |
"In the week of The Good Shepherd this stinging indictment of Western involvement in the Third World is timely - or would be, if anyone bothered to see it." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"A modest, bitter-sweet charmer." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bandslam (2009) |
"Graff has wonderfully captured not just the emotional havoc of adolescence but its passionate belief in music as a life-changing force." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"But even if you don't tire of the relentless violence, you might want to call time on Cage's tough-but-sensitive übermensch." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Banishment (2007) |
"The film works mostly in ellipses and silences, establishing a solemnly mysterious mood." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"As a spectacle of ingenious larceny, it's not up there with Rififi, or even Sexy Beast. But it's not bad, either." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 5/5 |
Barry Lyndon (1975) |
"You can't tear your eyes from it. Loosely held together by Michael Hordern's drolly ironic narration, it might not catch very much of Thackeray's tone but it creates a world that is sumptuously, even shockingly, vivid." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Battle in Heaven (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 5/5 |
Battle of Algiers (1966) |
"Gillo Pontecorvo's epic of revolutionary fervour has dimmed not an iota since it was first released in 1966." |
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Splat 2/5 |
The Beaches of Agnes (2009) |
"There's not much discipline and it's way too long, but in common with her best work, it has a dreamy sort of charm." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"At one point Daphne warns Milly, "You're going to end up like some pathetic character in a Tennessee Williams play." If ever a film could have used a character from a Tennessee Williams play, it's this one." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"Given the amount of talent involved – Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Rip Torn, and Seinfeld himself – it all feels like a terrible waste." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Before I Forget (2008) |
"It doesn't add up to much as a story, but as an account of a demi-monde defiant in its loucheness and loneliness it has its moments of odd grace." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Before the Rains (2008) |
"Acting honours go to Bose, his face an eloquently shifting register of shame, calculation and sympathy." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Ben X (2008) |
"This "issue" movie from Belgian director Nic Balthazar throws a dramatic feint so improbable one can almost see a cartoon question mark floating above the audience's heads." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"There's plenty of campery, inevitable when you have Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich in the voice cast, but for all the ham-inatronic moments, it looks terrific." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Better Things (2009) |
"Duane Hopkins has a patient eye, and catches moments of austere beauty as it scans the bleak surroundings, but his mostly young cast is left hanging by chilly direction and an inadequate script." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Beyond the Fire (2009) |
"The film's message of "healing" couldn't be more sincere, but it can't cover for the awkward staging, cheap lighting and stilted script." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Big Fish (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Ryan Gilbey |
Splat 2/5 |
Big River Man (2009) |
"This chronicle of his swim is fuzzy and flaky: the implication is that Strel, exhausted and delirious from his efforts, suffered a mental breakdown. His story requires a comparable narrator: one wonders what Werner Herzog might have done with it." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
BirdWatchers (2009) |
"By the end, it is leaning towards melodramatic simplification; but its broad sympathies, startling landscapes and non-professional cast make up for that." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 3/5 |
Birth (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/5 |
The Black Dahlia (2006) |
"Almost every decision that was taken here seems to have been the wrong one, from the casting of the callow, pleasant-looking Josh Hartnett as the sexually repressed cop hero, to the mellow sepia tones overlaying night-time Los Angeles." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 3/5 |
Black Gold (2006) |
"If you don't buy Fair Trade coffee after this you never will." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Black Sheep (2007) |
"The farce maintains a rollicking pace and the performances are more accomplished and likeable than a film of this sort generally musters." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Black Sun (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato |
Blame it on Fidel (2006) |
"The comedy always feels enriching rather than demeaning." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
Blindness (2008) |
"It's prurient, sentimental, and baffling to boot." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Blindsight (2008) |
"How they managed the trek defies belief, but in an art-form where superpowers have become passé, it's a stirring reminder of what human powers, against the odds, can achieve." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Blood Diamond (2006) |
"Some will dismiss it as "typical Hollywood", yet that isn't always a bad thing. In so many movies, destruction and loss are dwelt upon because they are irreducible truths. But survival is a truth, too, and this film pays it often stirring witness." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
A Bloody Aria (2006) |
"I suspect it falls between two stools: not nearly grisly enough for the aficionado of extreme Asian cinema, rather too grisly for everyone else." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
The Boat That Rocked (2009) |
"For a man who loves the raucous, ebullient pop of the 1960s, Curtis's own output has been terribly, terminally square. This latest is a new low: The Film That Sucked." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Bobby (2006) |
"You can understand why somebody would want to make a film about such a famous "lost moment" in American history, but this celebrity ensemble piece is misconceived and poorly managed." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Body of Lies (2008) |
"But it's something of a penance to sit through, a token handwringing over American dirty tricks that's just another opportunity for Scott and co to blow stuff up." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bolt (2008) |
"The plot is sentimental fluff. But this has energy and invention enough to keep Lasseter top of the heap." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Born and Bred (2006) |
"Like the brutal climate it portrays, the film isn't easy to love, and Pfening makes a less sympathetic soul in torment than Trapero perhaps intends." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Boss of it All (2007) |
"Von Trier has evidently been watching The Office, and replicates both its soulless setting and fly-on-the-desk camera-style, not to mention the Brentian fear of being unpopular." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"Streamlined, brisk and tight." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
The Box (2009) |
"The single question I wanted to ask was: how many more times will a studio allow Richard Kelly to commit career suicide?" |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) |
"Writer-director Mark Herman has done a creditable job of negotiating its volatile compound of fable and realism." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Brave One (2007) |
"Alas, moral niceties are blown away in a frenzy of retribution, and a "controversial" ending undoes any plausibility." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Breach (2007) |
"A sombre game of cat-and-mouse. What it lacks in genuine tension it amply compensates in the understated performances of the two leads." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Breed (2006) |
"Don't go down to the basement, you idiot, there's a slavering hound waiting to attack you." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 5/5 |
Brick (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Brick Lane (2008) |
"Underwhelming." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Brideshead Revisited (2008) |
"It's not much to offer a newcomer, who would be best advised to read Waugh's novel; failing that, to get hold of the TV serial. Either would be preferable to this copy of a copy, and a rather inadequately handled one at that." |
Anthony Quinn |
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