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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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