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The Movie Watcher | Dave White: Your Man at the Multiplex

Movie Title Grade Dave Says
Babel B- … way better than that stupid Crash
Baby Mama … made me laugh from beginning to end.
Backstage B+ … verge-of-tears overwroughtness.
Badland I love how dumb all the characters are.
Ballast A- ...beautiful looking
Ballets Russes … jaw-droppingly beautiful …
Balls of Fury D- … full of dead space …
Bamako You can't accuse it of being dull.
The Band's Visit A- If melancholy is your favorite
flavor …
Bangkok Dangerous D- ...You can always count on the hairpieces...
The Bank Job B+ … it's a lot of fun …
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals C- … the 147th animated talking-animal movie …
Basic Instinct 2 … hilariously kinky sex …
Battle in Heaven … capital-A Art Film.
Be Here to Love Me … horrifyingly fascinating …
Be Kind Rewind … not Michel Gondry's most coherent one …
The Beauty Academy of Kabul B+ No, it's not a mockumentary.
Because I Said So It's dumbly inoffensive, unless you're offended by things that induce napping.
Becoming Jane Maggie Smith slices everyone to ribbons …
Bee Movie C- … pretty dull …
Bee Season B+ … wow …
Been Rich All My Life A- … you'll want way more.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead A- … giving it everything they've got …
The Benchwarmers … Dullsville.
Beowulf A- … 98 percent awesome …
Beverly Hills Chihuahua B+ ...light-hearted, not-obnoxious...
Beyond the Gates B+ … moving and wrenching …
Big Momma's House 2 … supposed to be funny.
Black Book … amazingly daring …
Black Christmas C- … the deaths are fun …
The Black Dahlia C+ … noir to romance to screwball comedy …
Black Irish B- … a soap-opera mentality …
Black Sheep D+ Good Will Hunting with zombie lambs.
Black Snake Moan B+ … balls-out craziness …
Blades of Glory B+ … not quite as funny as Anchorman
Blame it on Fidel B+ … problematic and spooky.
Blind Mountain … slower than you might want it to be.
Blindness C- ...drops you down on Planet Metaphor...
Blood and Chocolate … PG-13 middle-school sex fantasy.
Blood Diamond C+ … few exciting suspense moments.
BloodRayne … awful/awesome …
Boarding Gate It's less a thriller (way less) …
Bobby … about practically nothing at all …
Body of Lies B+ ...metaphor for post 9/11 life during wartime
Borat … screamingly funny and brutally on-point …
The Bourne Ultimatum … hard-edged and laser-focused and intense.
Brand Upon the Brain! … exciting and satisfyingly odd …
The Brave One … actually completely brainless …
Breach … not what you expect it's going to be.
Breaking and Entering C+ … blabbedy-
blah-blah-blah.
The Break-Up B- … not necessarily bad
Brick … the coolest high-school movie since Heathers.
The Bridesmaid B+ … just gets crazier and crazier …
Bridge to Terabithia … smart, moving …
Brokeback Mountain … heartbreaking …
Broken English God, this movie is a drag.
Broken Sky It's like watching two guys French kiss in an Urban Outfitters.
Brooklyn Rules … a sea of dumb …
The Brothers Solomon … as entertaining as watching Dumb and Dumberer.
Bubble B- … looks as awful as it feels.
The Bubble Take Three's Company and toss them into Tel Aviv.
The Bucket List … so darn boring …
Bug B+ … gets really nuts.
Burn After Reading C- So yeah, everyone’s involved and the circles close in smaller and smaller until people get hurt, including the audience.