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  • Born Romantic (2000)
    The tangled love lives of unrequited men and feisty women in London.
  • Born To Be Blue (2015)
    Review preview for Born To Be Blue

    This is a classic love triangle, depicting a man torn between a beautiful woman and the drug that first stole his heart. Hawke makes us believe it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.
  • Born To Fight (2004)
    A group of athletes try to save a village from a ruthless militia.
  • Borrowed Time (2012)
    Review preview for Borrowed Time

    More like a tragicomic fairytale than a social-realist examination of inner-city problems.

    Robert Munro · 4 out of 5
    Low-budget crime drama about two misfits.
  • The Boss's Head (1975)
    Review preview for The Boss's Head

    A spectacularly messy, non-linear car chase near the end makes the most of Kinji Fukasaku's talent as an action director.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Rival yakuza clans engage in a bloody territorial dispute.
  • The Boss Baby (2017)
    Review preview for The Boss Baby

    The script is hilarious and the CGI's lip-and-eye treatment positively perfect

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Some babies are pukealots. Some babies are squeeze-me-cutsies. This baby has the mind of a merchant banker and the skills of con artist. He takes no prisoners.
  • Bosta (2005)
    Review preview for Bosta

    Combining the serious and the cheerful, Bosta portrays both the beauty and the problems of Lebanese society.

    Maryam Ghorbankarimi · 3.5 out of 5
    A dance troupe bring together traditional and modern musical ideas on a tour aimed at bringing together the people of post-war Lebanon.
  • Bounce (2000)
    Review preview for Bounce

    Apart from the sheer dullness of these two, the script by director Don Roos doesn't go anywhere. It starts at A, hiccups on B and ends at C.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    A man gives away his plane ticket... only for it to crash and, spurred by guilt, seeks out the widow of the man who took his ticket.
  • The Bow (2005)
    Review preview for The Bow

    Hwal is a wonderful piece of film-making. It's simple, thoughtful, perfectly focussed, and a delight to watch from start to finish.

    Keith Dudhnath · 4.5 out of 5
    A young girl has been raised by an old man but now she is nearing 17 will a chance encounter with a fisherman change their lives forever?
  • Bowfinger (1999)
    Comedy about a desperate B-movie producer.
  • The Box (2009)
    Review preview for The Box

    Kelly should be praised to the heavens for his willingness to juggle very big ideas and to engage with the thorniest of ethical questions, taking one couple's seemingly straightforward dilemma and transforming it into a crux of apocalyptic dimensions.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    A skint couple are given them a box that will give them a million dollars if they open it... but it comes with a catch.
  • The Boxer (1997)
    A former convict boxer rekindles love where he shouldn't.
  • The Boxtrolls (2014)
    Review preview for The Boxtrolls

    Having set a scene of intriguing grotesquery the plot falls victim of its own invention

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
  • Boyhood (2014)
    Review preview for Boyhood

    Intimate and insightful even in its weaker moments, Linklater finds strength and value in normality.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The story of a youngster told over a 12 year period.
  • Boyhood Loves (2001)
    Review preview for Boyhood Loves

    Writer-director Yves Caumon notices the small details... and makes them count.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3.5 out of 5
    A young Frenchman returns from the city to the rural home of his youth to visit his dying father in this subtle, effective drama.
  • The Boys (1998)
    Review preview for The Boys

    A mood of barely suppressed violence hangs in the air, like a threat of rabid wildlife.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A man gets paroled and heads home to his brothers and a house where violence rules the roost.
  • Boystown (2007)
    Review preview for Boystown

    By and large this is a warm, engaging and at times genuinely tense film with some interesting things to say about Spain’s burgeoning gay scene and its matriarchal society.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    A Madrid estate agent makes desirable apartments available by murdering the old ladies who live there.
  • The Boys Are Back (2009)
    Review preview for The Boys Are Back

    An affecting blend of warm comedy and high pathos, The Boys Are Back brings an unusual all-male perspective to its otherwise familiar themes of domesticity, death and dysfunction.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A wisecracking sportswriter is forced into single parenthood by the tragic death of his wife.
  • Boys For Sale (2017)
    Review preview for Boys For Sale

    An intriguing piece of work that captures an underexplored side of modern Japan and provides sex workers with a rare chance to speak for themselves.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary about young, mostly straight men working in the Tokyo sex trade.
  • A Boy's Life (2002)
    Review preview for A Boy's Life

    If it weren't for the fact that A Boy's Life is set in the bedrock of white trash Mississippi, this would be no more than an extended social services report.

    David Stanners · 2.5 out of 5
    Documentary about a dysfunctional boy and his family in small town Mississippi.
  • The Boys Of Baraka (2005)
    Review preview for The Boys Of Baraka

    Beautifully captures the kaleidoscopic element of family life.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Disadvantaged kids from Baltimore are sent to boarding school in Kenya.
  • A Boy And His Dog (1974)
    Review preview for A Boy And His Dog

    With a post-apocalypse setting - deserts, service corridors, junk yards at night - the film lacks the vision of Silent Running.

    Paz Newis · 2.5 out of 5
    Sci-fi tale about a scavenger and his hound.
  • The Boy And The Beast (2015)
    Review preview for The Boy And The Beast

    For all its supernatural stylings, it's the natural connections that count.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A runaway human boy becomes apprenticed to a supernatural beast.
  • The Boy And The World (2013)
    Review preview for The Boy And The World

    Every bit as interesting to listen to as it is to watch.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A boy goes in search of his dad.
  • A Boy Called Dad (2009)
    Review preview for A Boy Called Dad

    Sentimentality is rough hewn and barely sophisticated, given the storyline, but the performances are first rate.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Kid on the run with baby son.
  • A Boy Called Po (2016)
    Review preview for A Boy Called Po

    A Boy Called Po features impressive performances from its two leads, who have great chemistry and effectively capture a complex relationship.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A father struggles to raise his autistic son following the death of his wife.
  • Boy Eats Girl (2005)
    Review preview for Boy Eats Girl

    Boy Eats Girl is B-movie stuff and knows it, but does it all with relaxed self-assurance, always witty and charming.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Young Nathan's fortunes change dramatically after his mother brings him back from the dead.
  • The Boy From Geita (2014)
    Review preview for The Boy From Geita

    This is one of the most harrowing documentaries released this year.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary about the persecution of albino people in Tanzania.
  • The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (2008)
    Review preview for The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

    The film’s 12A certificate is prohibitive for younger children – though with parental guidance kids as young as 10 might well get something from it – and yet the manner... is simply too simplistic for an older audience.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The son of a Nazi officer forges an unlikely frienship.
  • Boy Meets Girl (2014)
    Review preview for Boy Meets Girl

    Ricky is a strong willed and confident character who defies every familiar victim stereotype.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A young trans woman who can't find the right man takes a chance on dating another woman.
  • Brad's Status (2017)
    Review preview for Brad's Status

    Brad is a painstakingly developed character and one who is often sympathetic, if not exactly likeable, but he's also a character we've seen many times before.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.
  • Brahman Naman (2016)
    Review preview for Brahman Naman

    Cements Shashank Arora - so good in gritty drama Titli and demonstrating sharp comic timing here - as an up-and-coming Indian star to look out for.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A quiz team aim for glory, while targeting the loss of their virginity.
  • The Brain (1988)
    Review preview for The Brain

    Cheerfully lurid throughout, self aware but never tediously ironic.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A religious cult leader brainwashes his followers with the aid of a mysterious alien entity.
  • Brake (2012)
    Review preview for Brake

    Brake is an undying sequence of storytelling gimmicks.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    A secret service agent wakes up trapped inside a perspex coffin in the boot of a car.
  • Brakes (2016)
    Review preview for Brakes

    This is how Brakes comes across. Cynical and homemade.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Improvised black comedy charting moments in the lives of nine couples.
  • Brand: A Second Coming (2015)
    Review preview for Brand: A Second Coming

    Tempting though it might be to think, this is not a mockumentary. Brand is serious.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about comic Russell Brand.
  • The Brand New Testament (2015)
    Review preview for The Brand New Testament

    The levels of twee are fairly high, and contrasted with the bizarre and often regressive gendered comedy it’s likely to divide audiences right down the middle.

    Luke Shaw · 2.5 out of 5
    The new adventures of God, who lives in Brussels with his teenage daughter and falls foul of her hacking skills.
  • Bran Nue Dae (2009)
    Review preview for Bran Nue Dae

    On stage, energetic performances can overcome slight characterisation and shallow plotting but onscreen, the wafer-thin characters and lack of plot thrust are exposed.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A boy runs away from boarding school and goes on a surreal - and musical-number filled - roadtrip across Australia.
  • Brats (2002)
    Racial tension makes life difficult for a Czech family with adopted sons.
  • Bratz: The Movie (2007)
    Review preview for Bratz: The Movie

    Whilst the actresses are convincing as the original Bratz characters, those characters don't really make sense in this environment.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    The Bratz girls go to high school.
  • The Brave (1997)
    A down-on-his-luck Native American strikes a dangerous movie deal to help his family.
  • Bravehearts (2012)
    Review preview for Bravehearts

    Though Moe elegantly and tactfully remains focused upon her protagonists after the Breivik attacks, the specific trauma of the latter inevitably overwhelms proceedings.

    Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
    A documentary following the lives and thinking of four politically active young Norwegians before and after the massacre on Utøya Island.
  • Brave New Jersey (2016)
    Review preview for Brave New Jersey

    A real charmer of a film.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    As Orson Wells reads War Of The Worlds on the radio, a small town falls into a state of panic.
  • The Brave One (2007)
    Review preview for The Brave One

    The transformation from nice career girl to gun-totin' scum-bag-destroyer is laid on with a trowel.

    Chris · 2 out of 5
    The survivor of a brutal attack hunts down her assailants.
  • Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
    Review preview for Brawl in Cell Block 99

    Brawl In Cell Block 99 is one of the best action films of the year.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.
  • Breach (2007)
    Review preview for Breach

    Congratulations are in order to Shattered Glass helmer Billy Ray for playing it straight and subtle, resisting the temptation to jazz up the action quota and indulge in Hollywood speechifying.

    Jeff Robson · 4 out of 5
    A young, ambitious FBI agent is ordered to spy on his boss, who the organisation believe has been betraying his country for 20 years.
  • Bread And Roses (2000)
    Exploitation of Mexican immigrant labour among office cleaners in Los Angeles.
  • The Breakfast Club (1985)
    Review preview for The Breakfast Club

    Though they are archetypes with a predictable assortment of problems at home, the young people in this story all come across as real.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Five high school students discover what they have in common as they spend a day in detention together.
  • Breakfast With Curtis (2012)
    Review preview for Breakfast With Curtis

    The cinematic equivalent of being stuck next to a drunken self-proclaimed intellectual on a night bus.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A bookseller with a Bohemian lifestyle befriends the teenage son of the neighbours who hate him.
  • Breaking And Entering (2006)
    Review preview for Breaking And Entering

    Breaking And Entering feels genuinely homegrown, with an intelligent script, beautifully handled by actors and director.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    A stolen laptop leads to revelations of loss, love and the quality of mercy.

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