B
Bad
Boys II
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reteam for a boisterous buddy cop caper.
Violent, funny and offensive: it's a Michael Bay movie!
Bad Company
Chris Rock teams up with Anthony Hopkins to stop a terrorist bomb plot
in this unlikely spy thriller.
Bad
Education (La Mala Educación)
Pedro Almodóvar delivers another stunning movie, this time about
two abused boys and their subsequent lives.
Bad Guy
Love takes an obsessive turn in this Asian dram, as a college girl is
kidnapped and turned into a prostitute.
Bad Santa
A booze-soaked Billy Bob Thorton excels as a sinful Santa in this crude
comedy.
Balzac and
the Little Chinese Seamstress
Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution brings two city boys to the countryside
in this whimsical political fable.
Banger Sisters, The
A fun tale of two middle-aged women reliving their wild 70s days and rediscovering
themselves.
Barbershop
Ice Cube stars in this day-in-the-life of a Chicago barbers - a good-natured
comedy from the writer of "Two Can Play That Game".
Barbershop
2: Back In Business
Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer open up again for more hair-raising
comedy, Chicago style.
Bartleby
Crispin Glover stars as the man who'd prefer not to in this uninvolving
adaptation of Herman Melville's classic short story.
Basic
John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson share the screen again in this whodunit
set on a military training base.
Basque
Ball (La Pelota Vasca: La Piel Contra La Piedra)
Director Julio Medem delivers an information-packed documentary about
the Basque separatists ETA.
Be Cool
Not quite so cool this time round, Travolta hits our screens again as
Chili Palmer.
Be My Star
The uncertain progress of a teenage love affair is captured in this affecting
Austrian drama.
Beauty
Shop
Queen Latifah brings bags of style to an otherwise patchy comedy from
director Bille Woodruff.
Before
Sunset
Ethan Hawke excels as a writer rekindling a lost romance in this sweet
sequel to Before Sunrise.
Being
Julia
Annette Bening is the star of the show as a fading stage actress in István
Szabó's Being Julia.
Belleville
Rendez-Vous
An animated summer tonic, splendidly orchestrated by first-time French
director Sylvain Chomet.
Benzina
Two lesbians go on the run after indulging in a spot of matricide in this
surreal Italian thriller.
Best
Of Youth, The (La Meglio Gioventù)
An Italian family deals with 40 years of love, politics, tragedy, and
terrorism in this magnificent six-hour epic.
Bewafaa
(Unfaithful)
Life turns upside down for a woman when she marries her widowed brother-in-law
in this disappointing Bollywood drama.
Beyond
The Sea
Kevin Spacey directs and stars in a quirky biopic of singer Bobby Darin.
Big Fish
Tim Burton directs this wonderful feelgood comedy-drama, starring Ewan
McGregor and Albert Finney.
Big Kahuna,
The
Spacey and DeVito shine in this talky but compelling story of salesmen
waiting for God(ot) in a Kansas hotel suite.
Big
Red One: The Reconstruction, The
Sam Fuller's World War II epic returns, longer and better than ever.
Big Shot's Funeral
A lame satire in which the death of a Hollywood director sparks a bidding
war to sponsor his funeral.
Bigger
Than Life
Welcome re-release for this magnificent Nicholas Ray/James Mason collaboration.
Biker
Boyz
Laurence Fishburne delivers another cracking performance in an otherwise
OK street bike racing flick.
Billabong
Odyssey
A crack team of surfing superstars embark on an epic, globe-spanning quest.
Their mission: to locate and ride "the biggest wave in history".
Birth
Practise your breathing exercises for Birth, or risk lapsing into a coma.
Bitter
Victory
Richard Burton and Curt Jurgens are at loggerheads in this wonderful war
movie from director Nicholas Ray.
Black
And White
Robert Carlyle stars as a crusading lawyer in this true-life story of
an Aboriginal man charged with murder in 50s Australia.
Black Knight
Martin Lawrence goes back in time in this laboured, lumbering and laugh-free
mix of "A Knight's Tale" and "Just Visiting".
Blackball
A British comedy about "the bad boy of bowls", starring Paul
Kaye and Johnny Vegas.
Blade II
Guillermo Del Toro directs the second Blade movie. This is a rarity -
a sequel that's possibly better than the original. Review by Laura Bushell.
Blade
Trinity
Wesley Snipes returns as the fearless vampire hunter in a sequel that
isn't terribly good.
Blind
Flight
The story of 80s hostages Brian Keenan and John McCarthy is told in this
minimal but emotional docudrama.
Blind
Shaft
An acerbic take on China's economic miracle makes this coal-mining thriller
shockingly effective.
Blind
Spot: Hitler's Secretary
Eighty-one-year-old Traudl Junge recalls her time as Hitler's personal
secretary in this compelling documentary.
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood's latest outing as director and star sees a cinema great
reduced to dumb, hokey 'thrills'.
Blue
Crush
Great surfing footage gets swept away by soggy melodrama in this teen
drama starring Kate Bosworth and Michelle Rodriguez.
Blue
Gate Crossing
A schoolgirl has to battle with her feelings in this understated and uneventful
lesbian drama.
Blueberry
Vincent Cassel stars in this druggy western adapted from a popular French
comic book.
Boat Trip
Cuba Gooding Jr stars in this painfully unfunny comedy about two straight
guys who take a gay cruise by mistake.
Bodysong
An experimental feature from Simon Pummell, paying tribute to the cycle
of human life.
Bolivia
Life and debt in Buenos Aires are the subjects of this sultry, stylish
Argentinian café drama.
Bollywood/Hollywood
Writer/director Deepa Mehta does boy-meets-girl with a Bollywood twist.
Bollywood
Queen
The spirit of Bombay comes to Brick Lane in this entertainingly sweet
British Bollywood flick.
Boo,
Zino And The Snurks
Germany makes a stab at CGI animation in this good-looking but dull fantasy
adventure.
Bon Voyage
An all-star cast gets tangled in a web of wartime intrigue in this lavish
Gallic epic from the director of Cyrano De Bergerac.
Boogeyman
A horror movie about the monster under the bed that's about as scary as
it sounds.
Bourne Identity, The
Matt Damon plays an amnesiac assassin in this action-packed, globe-trotting
adaptation of the Robert Ludlum bestseller.
Bourne
Supremacy, The
Matt
Damon returns as amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne in this kick-ass action
thriller.
Bowling for Columbine
Controversial satirist Michael Moore takes pot-shots at US gun culture
in this astounding documentary
Boy
David Story, The
Moving documentary following the story of a Peruvian boy, abandoned at
birth because of a facial disfigurement.
Bride and Prejudice
Jane Austen swaps corsets for saris in this sparkling comedy.
Bridget
Jones: The Edge of Reason
Neurotic thirtysomething capers with Renee Zellwegger reuturning as the
eponymous Miss Jones.
Bright
Young Things
Stephen Fry turns his hand to directing, with this well-acted, witty ensemble
dramedy.
Bringing
Down the House
Steve Martin and Queen Latifah create dazzling comic sparks in an otherwise
stale story.
Brother
Bear
The latest cartoon from Disney is more unbearable than a bare necessity.
Brown
Sugar
Childhood friends Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan find love to a hiphop beat
in this sweet but predictable romantic comedy.
Bruce
Almighty
It's back to buffoonery for Jim Carrey, as a TV reporter given the powers
of God in this warm-hearted, chucklesome comedy.
Bubba Ho-Tep
Elvis battles the mummy in this soon-to-be cult classic horror comedy.
Buffalo
Soldiers
Joaquin Phoenix plays a Gen X Sergeant Bilko in this hilarious dark comedy
set during the last days of the Cold War.
Bugs! 3-D
Stunning 3-D documentary about the insects of Southeast Asia, 250,000
times their normal size on IMAX.
Bukowski:
Born Into This
The beatest of America's Beat Generation writers gets a definitive doc
in this fascinating trawl though the archives.
Bulletproof
Monk
Fun comic book martial arts action, with Chow Yun-Fat starring as a Tibetan
monk guarding an ancient scroll.
Bundy
Grisly biography of the real-life serial killer who murdered dozens of
women between 1973 and 1978.
Bunker, The
A platoon of retreating Nazi soldiers encounters something mysterious
when they take refuge in an anti-tank bunker.
Bus 174
(Ônibus 174)
A highjacker takes a bus full of commuters hostages. No, not the latest
Jerry Bruckheimer movie, but a brilliant Brazilian documentary.
Butterfly
Effect, The
Ashton Kutcher is hilarious but this isn't a comedy. Be warned.
Butterfly Man
A British backpacker finds romance, adventure, and intrigue when he travels
to exotic Thailand.
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