Tomato B- |
B. Monkey (1999) |
"No one does enough to overcome its formulaic crime story, its lack of gritty authenticity and its squishy inert romance." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Baadasssss! (2004) |
"A personal film shot from the heart." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
The Babe Ruth Story (1948) |
"Sappy but entertaining nostalgic biopic on Babe Ruth." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Babel (2006) |
"... settles for being a decent but contrived and unmoving psychological drama." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Babes in Arms (1939) |
"Strictly for the fans of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, and those with a soft spot for vaudeville." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
Baby Doll (1956) |
"Wickedly funny salacious black comedy." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Baby Face (1933) |
"Racy melodrama made before the Production Code." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Baby Face Nelson (1957) |
"Raw and twitchy gangster biopic about a thirties public enemy Number No. 1 is typical bang-bang stuff." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Baby It's You (1983) |
"An uneven teenage romantic comedy by John Sayles." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Predictable, unimaginative and unfunny." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) |
"It's a film that only could have been made in a more innocent time." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Bachelor in Paradise (1961) |
"The mild comedy is predictable and trite, in other words it's a typical Bob Hope vehicle." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Bachelor Mother (1939) |
"Makes the most of a misunderstanding over maternity." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
The Bachelor Party (1957) |
"This bachelor party is as much fun as riding the NYC subway late at night without a cop in sight." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
Back Against the Wall (2002) |
"An odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the Midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
Back Door to Hell (1964) |
"The film's main strength is the lively banter among the American soldiers." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Back From Eternity (1956) |
"Why this film was made was to see if it could save failing RKO additional expenses and make
money the easy way through a remake." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Back to Bataan (1944) |
"Weary wartime propaganda film with too much flag-waving." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Back to God's Country (1919) |
"The wilderness scenes had a sparkle to them that gave additional life to the mundane story." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Backfire (1950) |
"The acting by MacRae and O'Brien was better than the script deserved, which elevated the thriller into a so-so one." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Background to Danger (1943) |
"Lightweight espionage tale." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Backtrack (1991) |
"A terrific cast does not necessarily make for a good pic." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Bad Blonde (1953) |
"A weakly scripted and acted minor film noir about a boxer influenced to go on the wrong path by a femme fatale." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Bad Boy Bubby (1993) |
"The success of the film is largely due to the bravura performance by Hope." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Bad Company (1972) |
"The ironic comical Western prides itself in taking on the Horatio Alger myth." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Bad Company (2001) |
"Bad Company is good company only when it is most natural." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Bad Education (2004) |
"It's stylish, campy, gay, and signature Almodóvar." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Bad Guy (2001) |
"It's all distressing, superficial and caveman-like in its amour fou." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Bad Lieutenant (1992) |
"The only truth about this film was the sleaze." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Bad Luck (1960) |
"... a pointed black comedy that takes potshots at Poland's painful history from 1939 to 1959." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
Bad Manners (1998) |
"A delightfully bitchy black comedy." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"Even if it can't match the pleasures derived from the original, at least, it doesn't embarrass itself by
going hitless." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"As if the sweet traditional holiday films weren't bad enough." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
The Bad Seed (1956) |
"The Bad Seed left me with a bad taste." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) |
"There just seemed to be a missing ingredient to raise this intense psychological drama to the level
of a Rashomon." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Badge 373 (1973) |
"Flat-footed." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
The Badlanders (1958) |
"A Western remake of the film noir "The Asphalt Jungle" pales considerably besides John Huston's
original." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
Badlands (1973) |
"A groundbreaking seminal folk tale about aimless youths." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Badman's Territory (1946) |
"A lively but muddled Western that never quite makes much sense." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Balance (1974) |
"The acting was convincing." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
Ball of Fire (1941) |
"Does a fine job subverting the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs children's story." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) |
"It's a lyrical humanistic black and white film that's simply told and its universal anti-war message is easily understood." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) |
"A subdued revisionist Western based on a Mexican ballad about a true story." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
The Ballad of Narayama (1983) |
"Grippingly told tale." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000) |
"The film captures the spirit of Jack..." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
Ballets Russes (2005) |
"Lets even those who hardly know the difference between a tu-tu and a pirouette in on the inner
secrets of the illustrious ballet company." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Balseros (2002) |
"The documentary is remarkable in how it personalized this human tragedy." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) |
"A dullish though quite watchable lyrical coming-of-age love triangle drama set in the 1970s during the Chinese Cultural Revolution." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
Bamako (2006) |
"Bamako is an amazing polemical political film like no other." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
The Bamboo Blonde (1946) |
"This charmer of a WWII flyboy romantic/comedy doesn't quite fly." |
Dennis Schwartz |
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