Tomato 4/5 |
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) |
"Wiseman’s films are as much living organisms as they are subjective portraits." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 5/6 |
La France (2007) |
"A drama about the horrors, loneliness and camaraderie of World War I that intermittently (four times, to be specific) blooms into a delirious musical." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/6 |
La Leon (2008) |
"The film’s most interesting aspect is the hauntingly beautiful depiction of this world and the isleños, its inhabitants." |
Monika Fabian |
Tomato 4/6 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"Dahan makes us wait for the cathartic release until the very end; the effect is not manipulative but absolutely exhilarating." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 1/5 |
Labor Day (2009) |
"The film never finds drama, focus or any greater purpose other than some dubious horn-blowing about the SEIU being singularly responsible for electing President Obama." |
Aaron Hillis |
Splat 1/6 |
Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007) |
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Stephen Garrett |
Tomato 5/6 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"Tasteful yet ecstatically turned-on, [director] Ferran’s interpretation reworks legendary highbrow 'smut' into a textured story of rebirth." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/6 |
Laila's Birthday (2009) |
"Masharawi’s film is a vivid passenger-seat tour of a society perpetually crashing into madness." |
Kevin Lee |
Splat 1/6 |
Lake City (2008) |
"The real shame is the waste of Spacek. She's an American treasure who doesn't work nearly enough; to see this star make a rare appearance, only to wither among such emotional cheap shots, is the one thing in Lake City that will genuinely make you weep." |
David Fear |
Tomato 5/6 |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"For all its provocativeness, Lake of Fire is not a shapeless movie, nor a politically irresponsible one." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"This is not impartial filmmaking. This is manipulation." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lake Tahoe (2009) |
"Inspired by a childhood accident that befell director Fernando Eimbcke soon after his father’s death, this low-key character study is a beguiling paradox of Mexican suburban splendor masking personal grief." |
Kevin Lee |
Splat 2/6 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"Lakeview Terrace is gripping, ambitious and, by the time it ends, quite stupid." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Splat 1/6 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"A seriously mistaken enterprise, this Cat in the Hat–worthy stinker grafts the DNA of a Gerald Ford–era children’s TV show (barely remembered by thirtysomethings) to the restless-leg freneticism of today’s CGI-heavy blockbustering." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Landlord (1970) |
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David Fear |
Tomato |
Langrishe, Go Down (1978) |
"A flinty-eyed portrait of romantic naïveté and predatory narcissism that would likely have continued to gather dust in the archives if not for its retroactive star power." |
Mike D'Angelo |
Splat 1/6 |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"Even [Gosling] can’t guide us to the pulse within this pat material, and you have to keep reminding yourself which of the title characters is the plastic one." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/6 |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"To watch Hoffman and Thompson work the lines is to witness two extremely unlikely stars recapture the essence of their appeal." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
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Last Days (2005) |
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Dave Calhoun |
Splat 2/6 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"By dismembering Craven’s landmark extremities, [director] Iliadis celebrates his source for all the wrong reasons." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"Having cut his teeth on documentaries, Kevin Macdonald acts as if a shaky-cam aesthetic alone is enough to fuel dramatic tension." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"It’s refreshing to be reminded that an intelligent, exciting family movie isn’t always an oxymoron." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Last Mistress (2008) |
"It captures the absurd dimensions of romance with immediacy and unexpected compassion." |
Mark Holcomb |
- |
The Last Shot (2004) |
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Derek Adams |
Splat 1/6 |
The Last Sin Eater (2007) |
"Unfortunately for God-fearing youths in desperate need of counseling on the horrors of sin-eating, [Cadi's] spiritual awakening will likely put audiences to sleep." |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 2/5 |
The Last Station (2009) |
"Michael Hoffman’s biopic of Leo Tolstoy’s final year filters its historical drama through a turgid coming-of-age experience." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/6 |
The Last Time (2006) |
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Splat 2/6 |
The Last Winter (2007) |
"Being adept at maintaining unease will take you only so far if your dialogue sounds as if it’s been pilfered from pulp paperbacks and your actors’ performances range from slightly wooden to downright oaken." |
David Fear |
Tomato 5/6 |
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) |
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Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
Late Bloomer (2004) |
"If anything, this grungy horror film’s refusal to whitewash its antihero offers a rebuke worthy of the Farrelly brothers; by allowing him to indulge in the worst behavior imaginable, the movie actually affirms his humanity." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
Late Bloomer (2004) |
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David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Le combat dans lile (1962) |
"Ah, well. It sure looks purty." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 5/6 |
Le Doulos (1962) |
"Few films have focused so intently on proper underworld etiquette." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Leatherheads (2008) |
"The movie gets lots of things right, yet fumbles key facets so badly that you simply can’t christen it the gridiron version of His Girl Friday." |
David Fear |
Tomato 5/6 |
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) |
"A 'film noir in color' and a masterpiece of post-WWII American cinema." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Lemon Tree (2008) |
"A touch too neat but fittingly tart." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 5/6 |
Leon Morin, Priest (1961) |
"It’s a giddy bit of blasphemy to see Jean-Paul Belmondo dressed in priest’s garb." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 5/6 |
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"Just when you thought every ounce of metaphor and meaning had been wrung from the vampire movie, along comes Tomas Alfredson’s chilly, claustrophobic tale to infuse fresh blood into the genre." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/6 |
Let Them Chirp Awhile (2008) |
"Jonathan Blitstein’s debut feature works reasonably well by letting the characters’ collective emotional retardation speak for itself." |
Drew Toal |
Tomato 6/6 |
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) |
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David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
"The movie’s sense of doom is powerfully conveyed; one graphic scene has weeping soldiers blowing themselves up with grenades." |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 2/6 |
License To Wed (2007) |
"Add a lot of musty, Eisenhower-era gags (most women are shrewish ballbusters! all fat people love food!) and you wonder why the producers didn’t just throw in canned laughter as well." |
David Fear |
Splat 1/6 |
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008) |
"Building up to what’s supposed to be a serious moral dilemma, the noisy final act borders on incoherence." |
Joshua Land |
Tomato 4/6 |
Life. Support. Music. (2009) |
"Watching Crigler go from likable, ax-wielding guy to a prone figure who can’t even close his mouth, and then his eventual return to the stage, is inspiring, and reaffirms our belief in the healing power of rock & roll." |
Drew Toal |
Splat 1/6 |
Lifelines (2009) |
"Most of the movie is merely excruciating, until a late revelation elevates it into the realm of the sublimely ludicrous." |
Joshua Land |
- |
Lightning in a Bottle (2004) |
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Ben Walters |
Splat 2/6 |
Lights In The Dusk (2007) |
"As a dry comedy or a social allegory, Lights in the Dusk is anemic." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"Jim Jarmusch's latest - his best since Dead Man (1995) - practically begs for dissection and analysis, but it's better, perhaps, to read the film's many repeated symbols, sayings and actions as mood enhancers rather than intellect stimulators" |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lion's Den (2009) |
"A portrait of a subculture whose members take pride in walking their kids to the penitentiary’s pre-K class." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
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