"Babe: Pig in the City" Accidental tourist: The urban adventures of everyone's favorite talking pig makes for one of the most exhilarating films of the year. By Stephanie Zacharek.
By Stephanie Zacharek [November 25, 1998]

"Baby Boy" John Singleton's urban drama has noble intentions, but it's as lost as its protagonist.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams [July 04, 2001]

"The Bachelor" Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger face off in a tale that sets love against lucre.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams [November 4, 1999]

"Baise-Moi" A new wave of bloodily pornographic French art films hits a new low in this ultraviolent tale of two murderous women on the lam.
By Charles Taylor [July 13, 2001]

"Bait" Competent and flashy, and Jamie Foxx is hysterical, but this actioner gives you time to think -- and that's not a good thing.
By Andrew O'Hehir [September 15, 2000]

"Bamboozled" Spike Lee's explosive, near-masterpiece media satire balances between brilliance and incoherence.
By Andrew O'Hehir [October 6, 2000]

"Battlefield Earth" L. Ron Hubbard's pulp sci-fi classic comes incomprehensibly to the screen starring Scientologist John Travolta.
By Andrew O'Hehir [May 11, 2000]

"The Beach" No phone, no lights, no motorcar -- not a single luxury! Leonardo DiCaprio and the "Trainspotting" creators can't rescue Alex Garland's trouble-in-paradise bestseller from trite moralizing.
By Stephanie Zacharek [February 10, 2000]

"Bean" Charles Taylor reviews 'Bean' directed by Mel Smith and starring Rowan Atkinson.
By Charles Taylor [November 7, 1997]

"Beau Travail" Claire Denis' baffling and exhilarating "Billy Budd" smolders with heat-blasted rhythms and supercharged acting.
By Charles Taylor [March 30, 2000]

"Bedazzled" It might not measure up to the 1967 original, but now Satan's got sooty pussycat eyes and a kitten-cruel smile.
By Stephanie Zacharek [October 20, 2000]

"Before Night Falls" Julian Schnabel's tale of a gay Cuban poet smolders with vivid sensuality. Plus: Johnny Depp in drag.
By Charles Taylor [January 26, 2001]

"Being John Malkovich" Director Spike Jonze puts his brilliantly offbeat twist on the "15 minutes of fame" theory.
By Andrew O'Hehir [October 28, 1999]

"Beloved" Jonathan Demme panders to Toni Morrison's guilt mongering in his brutal adaptation of 'Beloved'.
By Charles Taylor [October 16, 1998]

"Besieged" Interpretation of scenes: "Besieged" unfolds on the surface as a duet between two dislocated souls, but director Bernardo Bertolucci can't resist repeating his Freudian refrain.
By Daniel Mangin [May 20, 1999]

"Big Daddy" Adam Sandler is cinema's nicest loudmouthed jerk.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams [June 24, 1999]

"Big Momma's House" Martin Lawrence, no Eddie Murphy, takes a reheated cross-dressing shtick and turns it into something to elate your inner fourth-grader.
By Andrew O'Hehir [June 2, 2000]

"The Big Tease" Craig Ferguson of "The Drew Carey Show" is effervescent as a gay Scottish hairdresser in Lotusland, but Kevin Allen's hackneyed comedy is as light as a squirt of styling mousse.
By Daniel Mangin [January 27, 2000]

"Billy Elliot" What makes a man? In the gritty, "Full Monty" countryside it means getting comfortable around tights and tutus.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams [November 3, 2000]

"Black Cat, White Cat" A Felliniesque farce boasts the many talents of Emir Kusturica, a director still making ambitious, individualistic movies like they matter.
By Andrew O'Hehir [September 22, 1999]

"Blade" I'm gonna git you, suckhead: Wesley Snipes stars as the slick vampire-killer in 'Blade,' based on the first black Marvel Comics superhero.
By Charles Taylor [August 20, 1998]

"The Blair Witch Project" We have nothing to fear but fear itself -- and fear, it turns out, is scarier than hell.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams [July 12, 1999]

"Blow" A cocksure Johnny Depp swaggers through a sleazy, glamorous head trip about the '70s and '80s drug trade.
By Stephanie Zacharek [April 6, 2001]

"Body Shots" The grimmest take on the singles scene since "Looking for Mr. Goodbar."
By Charles Taylor [October 25, 1999]

"The Bone Collector" With a knick-knack, paddy-wack, Phillip Noyce makes this "Bone" a dog.
By Stephanie Zacharek [November 4, 1999]

"Boogie Nights" Paul Thomas Anderson's audacious, comic "Boogie Nights" finds a loopy extended family in the adult movie business of the 1970s.
By Charles Taylor [October 17, 1997]

"Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" There's nothing scarier than a group of hormone-crazed 20-somethings, but this sequel isn't much more than a footnote of a footnote.
By Andrew O'Hehir [October 27, 2000]

"Bounce" The director of "The Opposite of Sex" returns with a romance featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck. Who could have predicted the mess that results?
By Andrew O'Hehir [November 17, 2000]

"Bowfinger" Martin and Murphy team up for a good-natured sendup of the mindless summer blockbuster -- and just barely avoid making one themselves.
By Andrew O'Hehir [August 11, 1999]

"Box of Moonlight" Andrew O'Hehir reviews the movie 'Box of Moonlight' directed Tom DiCillo and starring John Turturro and Sam Rockwell
By Andrew O'Hehir [September 8, 1997]

"Boys Don't Cry" The fictionalized account of the Brandon Teena story is sensationalistic storytelling at its best.
By Stephanie Zacharek [October 10, 1999]

"Brassed Off" A review of the movie brassed off, directed by mark herman and starring ewan mcgregor, tara fitzgerald and peter postlethwaite, reviewed by stephanie zacharek.
By Stephanie Zacharek [June 30, 1997]

"Bread and Roses" The problem with Ken Loach's half-Spanish, half-English film isn't the lefty politics, it's that the Brit knows nothing about Los Angeles.
By Andrew O'Hehir [June 30, 1997]

"Bridget Jones's Diary" A smarted-up, tarted-up take on a book about a girl who unapologetically enjoys sex.
By Stephanie Zacharek [April 13, 2001]

"Bringing Out the Dead" Scorsese's manic, well-acted paramedic pic needs a fast ride back to the E.R.
By Stephanie Zacharek [October 21, 1999]

"Brokedown Palace" Claire Danes stars in her first -- and hopefully last -- women's prison flick.
By Stephanie Zacharek [August 12, 1999]

"Buddy Boy" First-time director Mark Hanlon may have watched "Eraserhead" too many times, but he sure knows how to sustain a mood.
By Andrew O'Hehir [March 27, 2000]

"Bully" Larry Clark loves to show us teenagers having sex and getting wasted, but does he have a point?
By Andrew O'Hehir [July 31, 2001]

"Bulworth" Warren Beatty gets down in this inept but impassioned satire about a politician run amok in South Central Los Angeles.
By Charles Taylor [April 30, 1998]

"The Butcher Boy" Andrew O'Hehir reviews 'The Butcher Boy,' directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens and Sinead O'Connor
By Andrew O'Hehir [April 10, 1998]

"But I'm a Cheerleader" Even with the outlandish characters, gaudy colors and gay satire, this smug John Waters knockoff can't stand up to the real thing.
By Stephanie Zacharek [July 7, 2000]