Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
Part Disney's Alice in Wonderland, part Fritz Lang's M, the movie is horrific yet cloying, alternately distended and abrupt, sometimes poignant and often ridiculous." — Village Voice Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Liverpool (2009) | "
Liverpool opens with a big blast of neo surf, and coasts on that energy for the movie's 84 minutes, ending with a shot of corresponding impact." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 39%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
The Limits of Control is a shaggy dog story, but it’s leaner and less precious (and more beautiful) than the past few Jarmusch films." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| La France (2007) | "
Without ever surrendering its deadpan naturalism, La France becomes increasingly poetic: The seasons change, the landscape grows barren, and the stars in the sky take their names from the dead men below." — Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Last Mistress (2008) | "
Highly entertaining." — Village Voice Posted Jun 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Last Year at Marienbad (1961) | "
The movie is what it is -- a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection." — Village Voice Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Lake of Fire (2007) | "
A provocatively beautiful movie on the hottest hot-button issue in American life: a woman's right to an abortion." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Landlord (1970) | "
The Landlord remains one of the funniest social comedies of the period, as well as the most human." — Village Voice Posted Sep 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Lady Chatterley (2006) | "
Nearly three hours long, Lady Chatterley passes as swiftly as the summer shower. This is not so much a love story (and even less a story about love) than it is a movie of passionate loveliness." — Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| The Lives of Others (2006) | "
The Lives of Others is a compelling thriller but an unsatisfying character drama." — Village Voice Posted Feb 6, 2007 |
— | Fresh 100%
| La Commune (2000) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The Last Movie (1971) | "
One of the craziest (and druggiest) movies ever made, it's also blatantly self-deconstructing and meta to the max, albeit produced years before those terms became commonplace." — Village Voice Posted Aug 15, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Lunacy (2006) | "
Connoisseurs of the disgustingly visceral will find Jan Svankmajer hardly mellowed at 72. Lunacy is dark, scary, and yucky -- even by the Czech animator's own standards." — Village Voice Posted Aug 12, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 42%
| Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006) | "
Brooks plays a character so self-absorbed he visits the Taj Mahal and manages not to notice it. As the film ends, who can fail to appreciate the care with which he steps on his own apocalyptic punchline? That's the joke." — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2006 |
— | N/A | Livin' the Life (1984) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Aug 27, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| L'Enfant (2006) | "
The remarkable thing about the Dardennes is their complex single-mindedness. Each film is an odyssey (toward grace?) in a world that could hardly seem more material." — Village Voice Posted May 24, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Le Corbeau (1943) | "
Clouzot, often called the French Hitchcock, is not just a master of suspense but is also most adroit at implicating his audience." — Village Voice Posted Feb 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Lost Embrace (2005) | "
It's 20 minutes too long -- forgivable in view of Burman's affection for his material." — Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Los Olvidados (1950) | "
Once seen, this movie can never be forgotten." — Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Leopard (1963) | "
The greatest film of its kind made since World War II -- its only rivals are Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Visconti's own Senso." — Village Voice Posted Aug 10, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004) | "
An essay in film form with near-universal interest and a remarkable degree of synthesis." — Village Voice Posted Jul 27, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Ladykillers (2004) | "
There's the mind-numbing oompah rhythm of every gag telegraphed and every joke pounded into the ground." — Village Voice Posted Mar 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| La Vie Promise () | "
Posh and overwrought tale of gorgeous scenery and mental illness." — Village Voice Posted Mar 9, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| L'Age D'Or (1930) | "
Suggests instances of sex and violence far more extreme than any actually represented while contriving effronteries so offhanded you can't believe you've actually seen them." — Village Voice Posted Jan 27, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | "
This Krakatoa is at once exhausting and riveting." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| The Last Samurai (2003) | "
The least one can say for this costume action flick is that it hits bottom immediately." — Village Voice Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Lars Von Triers Epidemic (1987) | "
Uneven as von Trier can be, Epidemic is among his better and most revealing movies." — Village Voice Posted Nov 11, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Lost in Translation (2003) | "
Coppola -- who wrote as well as directed -- gives Murray room to stretch and is rewarded with some remarkably melancholy clowning." — Village Voice Posted Sep 9, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) | "
Legally Blonde 2 is a movie of many stupid pet tricks and one basic joke." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Lilya 4-Ever (2003) | "
Show Me Love and Together were a bit sentimental for my taste; the brutally overdetermined Lilya demonstrates that [Moodysson] can go to the other extreme." — Village Voice Posted Apr 15, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Love and Diane (2003) | "
From first shot to last, Dworkin's movie is a continuously absorbing, sometimes revelatory, frequently moving experience." — Village Voice Posted Apr 15, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Laurel Canyon (2003) | "
The spectacle of pretty people floating languidly across the screen notwithstanding, Laurel Canyon is short on conviction and long on contrivance." — Village Voice Posted Mar 4, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin (2003) | "
Like Strom's earlier docs, L'Chayim Comrade Stalin is best appreciated as an exercise in creative ethnography." — Village Voice Posted Jan 28, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Last Letter (2003) | "
Primal in its effect, The Last Letter demonstrates the power of language, performance, and narrative to hold an audience spellbound." — Village Voice Posted Jan 28, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Le Cercle Rouge (1970) | "
The elegantly functional script pivots on a neat series of reversals and chance intersections." — Village Voice Posted Jan 7, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | "
Fans of the first movie will not be disappointed; neophytes may find the endless mixing it up with digital hordes a bit wearisome, even if the combatants are horrific hyena-riding orcs." — Village Voice Posted Dec 17, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Late Marriage (2001) | "
Superbly brash, raunchy, and confrontational." — Village Voice Posted May 14, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| The Lady and the Duke (2002) | "
If you can forget the world-historic significance of the mass revolution that overthrew Europe's oldest absolute monarchy ... The Lady and the Duke is the stuff of human interest." — Village Voice Posted May 7, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Les Destinees (2002) | "
An impressively coordinated enterprise that lasts three hours, manages a large cast, and covers a period of 30-odd years while successfully unfolding as a series of scenes from the life of a single character." — Village Voice Posted Apr 2, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Little Otik (2001) | "
May be overlong, but the excessive length contributes to its realness -- its uncanny ambition to bring objects to life." — Village Voice Posted Dec 18, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | "
Jackson's adaptation is certainly successful on its own terms." — Village Voice Posted Dec 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Lola (1961) | "
Legrand's score bubbles up under the most banal interactions." — Village Voice Posted Nov 13, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Lumumba (2001) | "
As cliché-rich as it is compelling." — Village Voice Posted Jun 26, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| The Luzhin Defence (2001) | "
[Turturro and Watson] demonstrate considerable rapport." — Village Voice Posted Apr 18, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| La Ley De Herodes (2000) | "
Production values are excellent and so is the cast." — Village Voice Posted Mar 22, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Last Resort (2001) | "
Admirably terse." — Village Voice Posted Feb 21, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| L'Atalante (1934) | "
L'Atalante is the world in springtime -- a place where shimmering reflections, smoky breezes, empty streets, and a free-floating sense of erotic energy are the essence of life and of movies." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) | "
Guignol violence, Lock, Stock aspires to be something like the Beatles meet the Wild Bunch. Too bad it doesn't have even a rubber soul." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Love's Labour's Lost (2000) | "
A double travesty -- a triple one, actually, if you consider the quality of the singing and dancing." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 95%
| The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999) | "
Hank Greenberg is a cozy affair that leaves the impression of a filmmaker too close to the material." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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