December 8, 1998, updated August 15, 2007 -- This page has an alphabetical listing of all my movie reviews of titles starting with the letters A through B. There is also an index for the rest of the film vault (over 1,000 and counting). The index is organized on web pages showing film titles starting with the letters C-D, E-G, H-L, M-Q, R-S and T-Z.

The latest wrinkle I've added are reviews from a friend and fellow critic, Patrick Ivers. His reviews are marked by his last name (Ivers) in parenthesis. Those little red stars are to indicate how well I liked the movie. Patrick does not use them. Four stars is the highest rating, an A, or excellent, and "bomb" is the lowest rating, an F. Three stars is good, two stars is average and one star is poor. You get the idea. The stars are the numerical equivalent of the A, B, C, D, F rating in my reviews (this can also be easily converted to a 1-5, a 1-9, or a 1-10 rating system if you prefer, since I use pluses and minuses in the letter-based ratings and half stars in the star-based rating system. However you look at it, it is pretty much the same movie rating system most critics use). I don't use A+ ratings. That's grade inflation. I'm old school when it comes to grades.

A through B (this page)
C-D E-G H-L M-Q R-S T-Z)

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