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