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  • Banaz: A Love Story (2012)
    Review preview for Banaz: A Love Story

    This documentary attempts to piece together what happened - to solve the mystery, but also to speak up for Banaz as a person, since pretty much nobody did so when she was alive.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of Banaz Mahmod, murdered for leaving her abusive husband and falling in love with another man.
  • Bandit Queen (1994)
    Review preview for Bandit Queen

    Seema Biswas dominates the screen as the much-wronged, vengeful Devi, moving from tough to tender, from bandit to child with an easy naturalness.

    Caro Ness · 4 out of 5
    True story of a woman who led a gang of outlaws in northern India.
  • Bandslam (2009)
    Review preview for Bandslam

    What makes this film so good is writer/director Todd Graff, who coaxes terrific performances from his young cast and really makes you care about them and their silly teenage travails.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    High-minded school musical.
  • The Band's Visit (2007)
    Review preview for The Band's Visit

    The simplicity at the heart of The Band's Visit is charming.

    Daniel Hooper · 4.5 out of 5
    The misadventures of an Egyptian police band, who get lost in Israel.
  • The Banger Sisters (2002)
    A pair of groupies reunite years later.
  • Bangkok Dangerous (2000)
    Review preview for Bangkok Dangerous

    The Pang Brothers lay claim to the throne of those other action thriller maestro siblings, the Wachowskis.

    Trinity · 4 out of 5
    A deaf mute gunman tries to escape the deadly Bangkok underground.
  • Bangkok Haunted (2001)
    Review preview for Bangkok Haunted

    Both men over-emphasise style, but have little real substance to back it up.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2 out of 5
    Three supernatural tales from Thailand.
  • The Bang Bang Club (2010)
    Review preview for The Bang Bang Club

    Silver offers no easy way out of his moral maze, just an unflinching look at conflict and its impact both on the perpetrators and those who watch.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The story of combat photographers in South Africa's apartheid era.
  • The Banishment (2007)
    Review preview for The Banishment

    A deceptively complex moral fable.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A family falls apart in an isolated house, precipitating an investigation into the nature of love.
  • The Bank Job (2008)
    Review preview for The Bank Job

    The fun in the film comes from the heroes' banter, and one can't help but think that watching them take a bus trip to Alton Towers might have been just as enjoyable.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    The true story of a group of bank robbers who stole more than they'd bargained for.
  • Bank Robbery (2009)
    Review preview for Bank Robbery

    This is an odd, often charming road movie, in which sentimentality is held in check.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Ex-con and nephew take a road trip in search of a bride.
  • The Banquet (2006)
    Review preview for The Banquet

    The cinematography and choreography are breathtakingly beautiful and the acting uniformly excellent.

    Caro Ness · 3 out of 5
    The action of Shakespeare's Hamlet is transported to 10th century China.
  • Banshee Chapter (2013)
    Review preview for Banshee Chapter

    The most convincing piece of otherworldly horror for years.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An internet journalist discovers that a dangerous hallucinogenic drug has been extracted from the pineal glands of dead humans, and the CIA may be to blame.
  • Baraboo (2009)
    Review preview for Baraboo

    Although it is beautiful to look at, it goes on doing that for an hour and a half.

    Chris · 2.5 out of 5
    People come and go in a Midwestern small town motel.
  • Baraka (1992)
    Review preview for Baraka

    Exhilirating cinema, simply and purely stated with rich, detailed live action photography.

    Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
    A journey of rediscovery across the world.
  • Baran (2001)
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    An emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cinema.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A strange passion erupts on an Iranian building site among illegal Afghan workers.
  • Baratometrajes 2.0 (2014)
    Review preview for Baratometrajes 2.0

    One of the strengths of Baratometrajes 2.0 is the diverse range of voices and perspectives encompassed.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    An examination of the circumstances surrounding the current trend for low-budget productions in Spain.
  • Barbara (2012)
    Review preview for Barbara

    A quietly enjoyable film with a sense of the old-fashioned about it and a few bursts of humour to cut through the air of melancholy and suspicion.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    Set in 1978 East Berlin, a doctor desperate to escape to the West finds herself thrown into turmoil by the attentions of another physician.
  • The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
    A dying man with a troubled past searches for peace, surrounded by ex-lovers and friends.
  • Barbershop (2002)
    Review preview for Barbershop

    As an ensemble movie with a social agenda, it speaks the gospel of community over commercialism.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Ensemble feelgood soap operatic take on life in a Chicago East Side hair cutting joint.
  • Barbershop 2: Back In Business (2004)
    Review preview for Barbershop 2: Back In Business

    The camera bounces around from one staged encounter to the next, until you start feeling curiously seasick from the clumsy breaks and wandering pan shots.

    Sobhano · 2 out of 5
    Ice Cube returns as the neighbourhood barber - this time facing multinational competition in Chicago.
  • Barber Of Siberia (1998)
    Review preview for Barber Of Siberia

    Visually the film is stunning, recapturing a sense of wonder, even madness, that incorporates the soul of Mother Russia.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Epic story about a woman trying to help an eccentric inventor raise cash in 19th century Russia, who falls for a young officer she meets on a train.
  • The Barchester Chronicles (1982)
    Review preview for The Barchester Chronicles

    Rickman, as the ghastly Slope, turns in a performance of greasy ambition that beggars superlatives.

    Caro Ness · 4.5 out of 5
    Superior Anthony Trollope adaptation.
  • Barefoot And In The Kitchen (2013)
    Review preview for Barefoot And In The Kitchen

    Worth seeing to remind ourselves how far Spanish women have come (and what they risk losing once more in Spain's current political climate).

    Rebecca Naughten · 3.5 out of 5
    The evolution of how women have been represented in Spanish cinema, from the 1930s to the present day.
  • Barefoot Gen (1983)
    Review preview for Barefoot Gen

    The film's real power rests in its portrayal of the Hiroshima bombing not from the point of view of politicians or the military, but through the eyes of a humble Japanese family.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Animation outlining the evils of the atomic bomb as told through the eyes of a young boy who survives the Hiroshima attack.
  • Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)
    Sequel charts the further adventures of the plucky schoolboy in post-nuclear bomb Japan.
  • Barney's Version (2010)
    Review preview for Barney's Version

    More often than not, when emotion is called for, Michael Konyves lays on the scripting far too thick.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Four decades in one man's life, told as a personal confessional.
  • Barnyard (2006)
    Learning responsibility is a boyman thing for a cowbull, called Otis, in the funfun farmyard.
  • Barre'$ Silence (2013)
    Review preview for Barre'$ Silence

    The camerawork is rough around the edges but Ahmadpour and Peyda aren't scared to get in the thick of the action and they also show a keen eye for a framing shot.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary on bullfighting, Iranian style.
  • Barstool Cowboy (2008)
    Review preview for Barstool Cowboy

    The real problem is that the story built around these archetypal characters doesn't have enough substance beyond them.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A lonely unemployed man is lamenting his ill luck with women when he meets a pretty art student and decides to take a chance.
  • Bart Got A Room (2008)
    Review preview for Bart Got A Room

    Easily the best comedy I saw in 2008 and the first I can remember in years that I’ve wanted to immediately watch again.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    It's tick-tock, tick-tock for Danny as the prom approaches, and he still doesn't have a date...
  • Based On A True Story (2005)
    Review preview for Based On A True Story

    The narrow focus, combined with Stokman’s easy-going, informal narration, mean that the documentary is neither gripping nor even particularly informative.

    Themroc · 2.5 out of 5
    Documentary about the real story behind hit film Dog Day Afternoon.
  • Bashkim (2001)
    Review preview for Bashkim

    Strangely disjointed.

    Trinity · 2.5 out of 5
    A young Kosovan kick boxer and his family try to explain his rage and frustration.
  • Bashment (2010)
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    It barely has time for character development when it's packing in so many clichés.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    When a group of black reggae fans beat up a white gay man, there are challenges ahead for all involved.
  • Basket Case 2 (1990)
    Review preview for Basket Case 2

    For all the creature effects and gore on offer here - not to mention bad acting and risible dialogue - Basket Case 2 feels cosily tame.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    A man and his basket-case mutant brother hole up in suburbia.
  • Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1992)
    Review preview for Basket Case 3: The Progeny

    Besides fraternity, paternity and family, craziness forms a major theme here.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Duane's mutant brother is about to become a dad.
  • Basket Case - The Trilogy (2012)
    Review preview for Basket Case - The Trilogy

    Strange to think that a film made 30 years ago has never looked so good.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Trilogy of films about a man and his basket-bound mutant brother
  • Baskin (2015)
    Review preview for Baskin

    Its plot is more cleverly structured than is at first apparent, and although it seems to lose its way part way through, there's always something going on upstairs.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A squad of unsuspecting cops goes through a trapdoor to Hell after stumbling upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.
  • Bastards (2013)
    Review preview for Bastards

    The precision of Claire Denis' perplexities, the ardent blows that fire at the heart and the head, are unequaled in her film Bastards (Les Salauds).

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A vengeful man sets out to find out about the businessman who caused his family's ruin.
  • Bastards (2013)
    Review preview for Bastards

    Perkin documents with delicacy and humour Rabha and others’ legal fights.

    Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
    The battles of single mums trying to legitimise their children in Morocco.
  • Bastille Day (2016)
    Review preview for Bastille Day

    Almost every action movie nowadays borrows from every other action movie and this one happens to be done incredibly well.

    Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
    A CIA agent and a pickpocket attempt to uncover police corruption in Paris with the dubious help of an activist's ex girlfriend
  • Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
    Review preview for Batman: Gotham Knight

    Although there's the odd cool moment, this is a big disappointment.

    Stephen Carty · 2.5 out of 5
    Six, loosely-related animated shorts set after Batman Begins.
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries (2003)
    Review preview for Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries

    Complex, well-written and intelligent science-fiction.

    Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
    Humans flee to escape anihilation at the hands of the Cylons.
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Movie (1978)
    It's Star Wars, Jim, but not as we know it!
  • The Battles of Coronel And Falkland Islands (1927)
    Review preview for The Battles of Coronel And Falkland Islands

    The depiction of The Battle of Coronel is truly gripping.

    Donald Munro · 4 out of 5
    Silent-era econstruction of two decisive naval battles from the First World War.
  • The Battle For Barking (2010)
    Review preview for The Battle For Barking

    The documentary team here are to be congratulated on getting so close to their subjects, on inspiring so much trust, even if there are moments when they agree to turn the cameras off.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A documentary following Margaret Hodge's campaign against the BNP in Barking at the 2010 general election.
  • Battle For Haditha (2007)
    Review preview for Battle For Haditha

    There is genuine grief, genuine rage, remembered and brought to the screen.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Docudrama investigating an Iraqi massacre allegedly carried out by US soldiers.
  • Battle For Terra (2007)
    Review preview for Battle For Terra

    There are some nice set pieces here and there but, like the air on Terra, everything feels stodgier than normal.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    An alien girl on an idyllic planet must save her homeland from human invaders.
  • Battle In Heaven (2005)
    An ugly taxi driver and the prostitute daughter of a general go at it and at it and (yawn).
  • Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
    Review preview for Battle: Los Angeles

    There's absolutely nothing here that hasn't been done before and better.

    David Graham · 2 out of 5
    Aliens attack Los Angeles and a marine platoon is called upon to stop them.

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