Boogie Nights
October 12, 1997 | In this era of high-tech trickery and humongous body counts, Hollywood screenwriters face a unique challenge: How do you keep the audience interested during the minutes between bigger,…
Bottle Rocket
February 22, 1996 | At a time when it seems as though half the new young filmmakers want to be Quentin Tarantino, while the other half want to be Martin Scorsese,…
Boys Don’t Cry
October 22, 1999 | Brandon Teena knew what girls like. During the opening minutes of the mesmerizing Boys Don't Cry, we get a chance to see Brandon make some smooth…
Brass Target
December 29, 1978 | Brass Target is fool’s gold. This lethargic copy of Day of the Jackal spins a fantastic yarn about a plot by corrupt US Army officers to kill…
Breakfast Of Champions
September 17, 1999 | Stunned disbelief is the only rational response to Breakfast of Champions, a ghastly misfire that brings out the self-indulgent worst in everyone involved. The scenario, based…
Breaking All The Rules
May 14, 2004 | A cleverly concocted hybrid of conventional romantic comedy and mistaken-identity farce, Breakin' All the Rules is fresh, fleet and funny. Credit writer-director Daniel Taplitz for keeping…
Bringing Out The Dead
October 22, 1999 | Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), the walking-wounded protagonist of Bringing Out the Dead, is a New York City paramedic who works the graveyard shift in Hell’s Kitchen.…
Broken Arrow
February 15, 1996 | Given the current state of high-tech trickery available to filmmakers, just about any director with an adequate budget can give you maximum bang for your box-office…
Bubble Boy
August 24, 2001 | How awful can a movie be without actually leaving a stain on the screen? Bubble Boy skirts perilously close to the outer limits of what can…
Bush’s Brain
August 20, 2004 | Despite the sporadic box-office success of IMAX spectacles and rock-concert extravaganzas, documentaries almost never attract mainstream moviegoers. Indeed, even art-house devotees tend to respond to nonfiction…