“Dude Where’s My Metaphysical Dilemma?”
Calendar Girls
“celebrates all of our wrinkly, ordinary destinies”
Capote
“we hate it when our friends become successful”
Cannibal Ferox
“that was a bad idea”
Catch Me If You Can
“playful romp”
Carnival of Souls (1962)
“we’re not the biggest church in town.”
The Cell
“like an episode of “The Outer Limits” or “The Twilight Zone”… presto!—you’re inside his dreams.”
Changing Lanes
“despite its gritty, urban look…is a fable.”
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
“don’t touch that squirrel’s nuts!”
Chicago (2002)
“shameless, hopelessly despicable characters do one shameless, hopelessly despicable thing after another.”
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
“all guns and no mantelpieces”
Citizen Kane
“what more can be said?”
Citizen X
“the world’s most prolific serial killer.”
City of God (2002)
“uses every trick and contrivance in the moviemaking arsenal…to tell a story that includes literally dozens of characters over about 25 years”
City of Lost Children
“what it was like to be a child and afraid.”
Click (2006)
“extra juicy”
Closer (2004)
“Clive is the villain of the year”
Code 46
“anecdote of little people suffering at the hands of big machines in a future world”
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
“picks its foible and showcases it affectionately.”
Cold Comfort Farm
“I saw something nasty in the woodshed!”
Cold Mountain
“captures both the grime and the splendor of wilderness”
Collateral
“Mann’s latest ode to the city is an atmospheric and nocturnal look at Los Angeles”
Constantine (2005)
“Even if you’re dumb enough to declare war on God, that’s an awful long time to be brooding and then still get outsmarted by a guy who starred in ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.’”
The Conversation (1974)
“that wacky toilet!”
The Cooler (2003)
“This place isn't faux dive. It's a real dive!”
The Corporation (2003)
“where’s the money, Lebowski?”
Cowards Bend the Knee
“Guy Maddin, Insane Canadian”
Creature Comforts (1989)
“cavalcade of whimsy”
"How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass."
Bad Santa
“sublime flatulence epic”
The Banger Sisters
"a good movie trapped in a formula."
Barry Lyndon
“one of the best-looking movies ever made.”
Batman (1989)
“a lonely boy, misunderstood by others and unable to understand them”
Batman Begins
“a man’s character is presented not as a rich tapestry drawn from a lifetime, but the result of a two isolated incidents”
A Beautiful Mind
“well-crafted mainstream film…appreciation for the mentally ill.”
Bedazzled (2000)
“through the supernatural, we are able to glimpse several different versions of their lives and relationships.”
Before Sunrise
“How many conversations have we started up on airplanes, bus stations, waiting in lines?”
Before Sunset
“Wondering how life might have turned out differently is not the healthiest way to spend your time, but everybody does it, probably more than we ought, so it’s worth making a movie about.”
The Best of the 2004 Ottawa International Animation Festival
“Hooray!”
Better Luck Tomorrow
“a warning to soccer moms and other overbearing parents…who seek to rob their children of a childhood in the name of ‘doing what’s best for them.’”
Big Fish (2003)
“all of Bloom’s stories follow tall tale logic”
The Big Hit
“this should be a bad movie…but I had fun watching it.”
Big Trouble in Little China
“sonuvabitch must pay!”
The Birds (1963)
“and then the birds attack”
Black Hawk Down
“like reading the best chapter in a very long history book…what is remembered is the courage of the few who stood against the many.”
Blackmail (1929)
“the United Kingdom’s first talking picture”
Blade Trinity
“every movie nowadays has kung-fu, but only ‘Blade’ has the temerity to use body slams.”
The Blair Witch Project
“stupid woods”
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2004)
“out come the swords”
Blood Diamond
“I’m gonna tell the audience its lesson”
Blow Out
“feathered early ‘80s proto-mullet”
Blow-Up
“is the filmmaker’s duty to recreate reality or to impose his will upon an artificial reality?”
Blue Steel (1990)
“battle of wills between two imbalanced people”
“romance explosion”
The Bourne Identity (2002)
“like a stone skipped across a pond”
Bowling for Columbine
“even if you can think of cogent reasons to disagree with everything Moore has said you’ll have gotten your money’s worth.”
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
“a series of free associations beginning with the word ‘vampire’”
Breakfast with Hunter
“a great American eccentric, finding the limits of the human psyche so that the rest of us don’t have to”
The Break-Up (2006)
“30 or 40 really good minutes”
Brick (2006)
“I’m going home – I have knives in my eyes”
Bride and Prejudice
“disappointing”
Brokeback Mountain
“homosexuality as…hyper-masculine, even bordering on misogyny”
The Brothers Grimm
“There IS a good movie in here.”
Bridget Jones’s Diary
“she just wants to feel loved.”
Bubba Ho-Tep
“absolutely ludicrous, yet genuinely moving”
Bubble (2005)
“I don’t know what to make of Steven Soderbergh”