Tomato |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"“You Bled My Momma. You Bled My Poppa. But You Wont Bleed Me.” Words to live by." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"BAADASSSSS! is a celebration of Melvin’s struggle to make Baadassss Song on his own terms despite an endless string of financial and personal mishaps." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"One the rare examples of historical fiction that manages to defuse a violent series of real-life events to the point of disinterest." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Splat 2/4 |
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"As far as fable imports go, Bab'Aziz is a step up from the Disney-grade moralism of Milarepa, but it's even less memorable." |
Paul Schrodt |
Splat 2/4 |
Babel (2006) |
"Comparisons to Crash are fair only up to a point, given how Babel is prone to sacrificing character at the altar of the almighty shock tactic, but the film more accurately brings to mind the schematic, globe-trotting Syriana." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Baby Mama confirms that if Tina Fey is in something she didn't write herself, it just ain't funny." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"That the film also features SNL's Amy Poehler makes the proceedings' crushing mediocrity that much more frustrating." |
Nick Schager |
Splat .5/4 |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"Seems simply like the aftermath of an artistic apocalypse." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Babysitters (2008) |
"Daddies, don't let your daughters grow up to be babysitters, because according to The Babysitters, it's a gateway to whoredom." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Back of the World (2002) |
"La Espalda del Mundo. It's an evocative title that reinforces the second-class citizenship of director Javier Corcuera's documentary subjects." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Back To Normandy (2007) |
"With Back to Normandy, a nostalgic travelogue with philosophical aspirations, director Nicolas Philibert not only returns to the scene of a crime but the scene of a movie shoot." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Back to the Future (1985) |
"Probably the most carefully-scripted blockbuster in Hollywood history." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Back to the Future (1985) |
"Back to the Future defies the laws of physics (and its own cracked view of the past). It's one of the rare big-budget entertainments that's improved with time." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Back to the Future Part II (1989) |
"The one thing the film got right was the crushed effect the media's growing omnipresence has had on human existence." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Back to the Future Part II (1989) |
"For anyone who ever wanted to see Michael J. Fox playing Tracey Ullman, there's Back to the Future Part II." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Back to the Future Part III (1990) |
"Doc Brown's threatened time paradox is no match for the final installment's dreary life lessons." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Back to the Future Part III (1990) |
"It ain't only the DeLorean that's out of gas." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Backstage (2006) |
"Depicting the thorny relationship shared by pop star and fan, Backstage radiates not the nostalgic sentimentality of Almost Famous but raw, pathetic, obsessive desperation." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 0/4 |
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"Michael Bay’s latest jingoistic fetish film, Bad Boys II, could be the most vile creation to come out of Hollywood since Patch Adams." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Bad Company (2002) |
""Welcome to my church, where we worship money," says the film's Czech ghoul. Words fit for Bruckheimer." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Bad Day at Black Rock (1954) |
"Sturges laces his allegory with mounting tension." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Bad Day at Black Rock (1954) |
"Title be damned, Sturges's classic isn't a bad way to spend a day." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Bad Education (2004) |
"I wonder if Gael García Bernal is paying his electric bill beneath that blob of squares covering his head, which seems to be undulating up and down between a man’s legs." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
Bad Education (2004) |
"Almodóvar’s canvas—like that of another hot-blooded drama queen, Federico García Lorca—is one of uncensored emotion and pure energy." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Bad Guy (2001) |
"Fans of the film will want to opt for the Region 2 disc of the film if they wish to hear Kim yap away over the non-stop spectacle of female degradation.
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Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Bad Guy (2001) |
"Realism isn’t the focal point of Bad Guy—misogynistic male power fantasies masquerading as dark, dreamlike treatises on fate and love are." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Bad Lieutenant (1992) |
"One of the landmark independent films of the 1990s is given a first-rate, informative, and cleaned-up DVD. The film is a masterpiece, but not for the faint of heart." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 4/4 |
Bad Lieutenant (1992) |
"Ferrara was in the right place at the right time to make Bad Lieutenant." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"It may not have the wounding thrust of Ferrara's, but it shares with that film a bottomless compassion for its crazies, to say nothing of the exhilaration of seeing a fearless director and a fearless actor pushing each other beyond extremes." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"A potty-mouthed reconfiguration of a sports classic for our Bad Santa age. Funny stuff." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"Appreciably funnier and more profane than its '70s-era ancestor." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"Not to be confused with Life with Judy Garland, Bad Santa is the perfect DVD to use to entertain unexpected guests and small children." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"Bad Santa tries to be as vulgar and offensive as possible so that it might somehow justify the inevitability of its own happy ending." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Tomato |
The Bad Seed (1956) |
"Here's a movie that suggests cute, precocious pre-pubescent blonde girls should get psychological counseling. Are you listening, Dakota Fanning's mother?" |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Bad Seed (1956) |
"The Bad Seed reflects Slant Magazine’s blind, abject terror of precocious, well-behaved little blonde girls." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) |
"A freestyle homage to Hamlet that does away with the costumed faithfulness of Kurosawa's other Shakespeare adaptations." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) |
"A sterling Shakespearean noir, Kurosawa's critique of unchecked corporate power functions as an uncharacteristically despondent counterpoint to his trademark humanism." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Badland (2007) |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Badland (2007) |
"Until the mess in the Middle East has found its way to a resolution, we can continue to expect films like Badland as part of the collateral damage in the War on Terror." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Baghead (2008) |
"For all the use of first takes and jerky camera moves, the John Cassavetes invoked by Baghead is not the indie pioneer saint but his Faustian thespian-husband character in Rosemary's Baby." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Baise Moi (2001) |
"Baise-moi is the kind of film that Ferrara would have made during the 70s, when Times Square was something more than a Disney theme park." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Ball Don't Lie (2009) |
"Less a movie than a sadomasochistic plot party where every conceivable contrivance of teenage woe is asphyxiated to the brink of orgasm and then abandoned to gasp for air and soothe its throbbing vitals." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ball of Fire (1941) |
"After the rush of His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire is a more sedate ride, full of such marvelous passages as the conga line Stanwyck's delectable Sugarpuss teaches the professors." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Ball of Fire (1941) |
"You'd have to go to Barbara Billingsley for another jive session this enjoyable." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
"Intriguing and disquietingly bizarre." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Ballad of Narayama (1983) |
"However you slice up postwar Japanese cinema, Shohei Imamura is one of its premiere figures." |
Zach Campbell |
Splat 2/4 |
Ballast (2008) |
"Lance Hammer's Ballast suggests and suffers from the influence of the Dardenne brothers." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Ballerina (2008) |
"A close-up but still, one senses, heavily idealized documentary portrait." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"To put this miscalculation in terms the filmmakers will understand, they don't Armageddon it." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Balseros (2002) |
"Someone, quick, put Balseros on George W. Bush's Netflix." |
Ed Gonzalez |
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