Film Search
- Jun 11, 2004
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Baadasssss!
Melvin Van Peebles's no-budget indie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) struck a mighty blow for African-American cinema and inaugurated the blaxploitation boom with its tale of a righteous stud (Van Peebles) on the run from racist cops. more...
- Jun 19, 2009
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Part thriller, part social history, this tense 2008 drama traces the rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang, a violent communist terror group whose track record of carnage across West Germany in the late 60s and early 70s made the Weather Underground look like a tea party. more...
- May 29, 2008
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Bab'aziz, the Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
Written by director Nacer Khemir and veteran Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra (L'Avventura, Amarcord), this vibrant 2006 fable was inspired partly by the work of the Sufi mystic Rumi. more...
- Jun 23, 2010
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Babe: Pig in the City (G)
Maybe it's the fur and wagging tails, the bristle-boar attitude, but somehow you want to save this suicidal squealer from its kamikaze fate. more...
- Jul 30, 2013
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Babe's and Ricky's Inn
In this lively documentary about the titular nightclub that for decades lured blues musicians to South Central LA, the numbers are so electric one wishes director Ramin Niami had made a full-scale concert film instead of shooting his footage during the joint's closing days. more...
- Apr 21, 2016
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The Babushkas of Chernobyl
You'd have to be pretty jaded not to fall for the irrepressible subjects of this stirring documentary, a group of elderly Ukrainian women who survived the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986. more...
- Jun 28, 2017
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Baby Driver (R)
Writer-director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) has been mashing up genres since he was an amateur filmmaker in his teens; here he tweaks the caper film by replacing the familiar figure of the aging protagonist who's in for one last score with a fresh-faced kid (Ansel Elgort) who's in debt to a criminal mastermind (Kevin Spacey). more...
- Oct 14, 2005
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Baby Face: The Uncut Version
Even in its censored 70-minute version, this 1933 feaure has long been celebrated as one of the Depression era's raciest movies, and this recently discovered uncut version, with six minutes of extra footage, is even more explicit and sordid. more...
- Sep 9, 2020
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The Babysitter: Killer Queen
The Babysitter: Killer Queen doesn’t miss a beat. more...
- Jul 28, 2006
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Bachelor Flat
Critic Andrew Sarris labeled this 1962 comedy Frank Tashlin's best, probably because its tone is so warm and its characters so likable, though it lacks the satirical edge of his 50s classics. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Back to the Future (PG)
Director Robert Zemeckis confronts the oedipal heart of the time-travel genre with this zestfully tasteless 1985 tale about a teenager (Michael J. Fox) who's projected back to 1955 and then must arrange the romance of his parents—even though mom (Lea Thompson) seems more interested in her handsome son-of-the-future than in his potential pop, a groveling nerd. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli will always be known and loved for his musicals (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon), but the melodramas he made in the 50s are no less accomplished and often more personal. more...