- |
B-52 (2001) |
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Tomato B- |
Babel (2006) |
"Until [Babel] hits overload and short-circuits, it's often brilliantly cinematic." |
Noel Murray |
Splat |
Baby Geniuses (1999) |
"Baby Geniuses' ramshackle plot serves merely as a launching pad for nearly two hours of jokes revolving around the idea of babies who talk and behave like bad stand-up comedians." |
Nathan Rabin |
Splat C+ |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Baby Mama doesn't have a plot so much as a series of contrivances that play out completely as expected." |
Keith Phipps |
- |
Baby's Day Out (1994) |
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|
Splat D+ |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"Even if it never finds an audience outside L.A., someone ought to write a book called When Dull Films Happen To Clever Production Designers." |
Keith Phipps |
- |
The Back of the World (2002) |
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|
Splat D+ |
Backseat (2008) |
"Anyone who's spent a lot of time at independent-film festivals will feel a familiar sinking feeling within the first 10 minutes of Backseat." |
Noel Murray |
- |
Backstage (2000) |
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Splat C- |
Backstage (2006) |
"Backstage's main problem is [director] Bercot's insistence on pumping an essentially comic story full of existential dread." |
Noel Murray |
Tomato |
Backyard (2003) |
"Tawdriness aside, The Backyard is remarkable for the intensity of the interviewees, who show a new kind of all-American gumption in the way they filter the mannerisms of low-rung celebrities through their own geeked-out, violent imaginations." |
Noel Murray |
- |
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) |
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|
Tomato |
Bad Education (2004) |
"In accounting for Almodóvar's identity as an artist and a man, Bad Education comes together like a bold and far-reaching summation of his career to date." |
Scott Tobias |
Tomato B+ |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"It’s not always easy to sort out the legitimately inspired touches from the merely campy ones, but the film has a deranged, go-for-broke spirit that makes such distinctions irrelevant." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
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|
Tomato B+ |
Baghead (2008) |
"Much of the fun of Baghead is that it's unclassifiable, by turns a movie-movie lark, an Eric Rohmer-like relationship comedy, and a surprisingly effective Friday The 13th kids-in-the-woods slasher film." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
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|
Tomato B- |
Ballast (2008) |
"There's a terrific short film buried in Ballast." |
Noel Murray |
Tomato |
Ballets Russes (2005) |
"Geller and Goldfine have assembled a vital historical document, covering a cultural era now mostly lost, corrupted imperceptibly but permanently when fledgling ballerinas started dreaming about Broadway and Hollywood instead of Swan Lake." |
Noel Murray |
Splat C- |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"It's never an encouraging sign when a comedy filled with talented pros produces only a single distinct laugh." |
Nathan Rabin |
- |
Balseros (2002) |
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|
- |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
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Splat C+ |
Bamako (2006) |
"The central conceit is audacious, but the film feels oddly slack and inert, livened only by testimony better suited to another forum." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
Bambi (1942) |
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|
Tomato B+ |
The Band's Visit (2007) |
"Tonally, The Band's Visit steps gingerly on the line between 'sweetly humane' and 'cloyingly quirky,' but [director] Kolirin pulls back the reins just enough, maintaining control by expressing as much with his framing as with his script." |
Noel Murray |
Tomato B- |
Bandslam (2009) |
"Like a less oppressively hip Juno, Bandslam captures the way young people too smart and pop-culture-savvy for their own good let the music and movies they love define them during adolescence’s crucible of humiliation and self-doubt." |
Nathan Rabin |
Splat D |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"It's never close to good, and it can't even get bad right." |
Nathan Rabin |
- |
Banished (2007) |
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|
Tomato B |
Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2007) |
"Williams isn't afraid to ask -- without providing any definitive answer -- whether black people are owed something for the legacy they were denied, and whether the grandchildren of the people who denied it should be properly held accountable." |
Noel Murray |
- |
The Bank Dick (1940) |
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|
Splat C+ |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"The Bank Job would probably go down a little easier if there weren't so much potential for seizing on a ripe cultural moment. Some stories are too good for mediocrity." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) |
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|
- |
Barcelona (1994) |
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|
Splat D |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
"It shouldn't be surprising that writer-director Steve Oedekerk, the man responsible for Kung Pow! Enter The Fist and the second Ace Ventura movie, considers single-celled organisms as he shoots for the lowest common denominator." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
Basic Instinct (1992) |
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|
Splat D |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"As a showcase for Sharon Stone's physique, Basic Instinct 2 is a rousing success. In every other respect, it's a colossal failure." |
Nathan Rabin |
- |
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) |
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|
- |
The Bat Whispers (1930) |
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|
Tomato |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"A rousing, reverent, often brilliant re-creation of a seminal comics character." |
Keith Phipps |
- |
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) |
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|
Tomato B |
Battle For Haditha (2007) |
"Unsubtle but gripping, Battle For Haditha illustrates how a military that treats every man, woman, and child as a potential enemy can soon find that such thinking constitutes a self-fulfilling prophecy." |
Nathan Rabin |
Tomato B |
Battle for Terra (2009) |
"For a movie with a on-the-cheap CGI and a wisecracking R2-D2/C-3PO clone, it’s still awfully heady." |
Scott Tobias |
Tomato B- |
Battle in Heaven (2006) |
"[Reygadas has] got an astonishing technique. Here's hoping that someday he'll use it to make a movie." |
Noel Murray |
Tomato B |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"It's the next best thing to being there, in that it's likely to make shuddering viewers intensely glad that they weren't." |
Tasha Robinson |
- |
Battleship Potemkin (1925) |
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|
- |
The Baxter (2005) |
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|
- |
Be Cool (2005) |
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|
Tomato B+ |
Be Kind Rewind (2008) |
"the visual wit, game performances, and overflowing humanity have more than made up for the shortcomings by the time the film finds a final moment that's simultaneously abrupt and magical." |
Keith Phipps |
- |
The Beach Girls (1982) |
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|
Tomato B+ |
The Beaches of Agnes (2009) |
"The Beaches Of Agnčs is held together primarily by Varda’s wide-ranging interests and formidable storytelling skills. The movie is a digression built on a digression, branching near-infinitely." |
Noel Murray |
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