Tomato 5/5 |
L.A. Story (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 5/5 |
La Jetée (1962) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 5/5 |
La Strada (1954) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Labyrinth (1986) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"It barely confronts the situations on a tormented, personal level -- as Martin Scorsese did when probing the spiritual agony of a paramedic in Bringing Out the Dead." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Remaining locked in Ursula and Janet’s fantasies, Ladies in Lavender evades complexity with monomania." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"Open to it, and it's engrossing: Funny, scary, unexpectedly poignant." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"The Coens appropriate their caricatures to serve a greater payoff: The Ladykillers is devised as a morally corrupt treatment of moral corruption.
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Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life hasn’t the nerve to be truly bad, but it’s unexciting, has no attitude, and (despite the camera’s infatuation with Jolie’s figure) is inhumanly sexless." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Last Boy Scout (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"It's a deconstruction of Idi Amin's persona, played with such dedication by Whitaker the surrounding narrative feels without purpose." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"It dumbs down sci fi cliché in hopes of reaching a child audience, creating a false sense of wonder." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Last Orders (2002) |
"Fred Schepisi's tale of four Englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Last Supper (1995) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 1/5 |
Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War (1995) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"It isn’t just a knock off of the last franchise event movie you’ve seen, it’s every franchise event movie you’ve ever seen." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) |
"A more appropriate title would be Legally Blonde 1.0: The Same Movie All Over Again, Except This Time We Forgot To Put Jokes In It." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) |
"Lemony Snicket serves anti-authoritarianism with youthful spirit." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Let's Go to Prison (2006) |
"Life's too short." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
"Letters From Iwo Jima is less interesting as the counter-perspective to last year's Flags of Our Fathers than it is as Clint Eastwood's effort to stake his own Japanese movie epic." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Libertine (2005) |
"The story's familiarity doesn't reward its gloom, but it's lifted by an amazing performance." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
License To Wed (2007) |
"Sadie (Mandy Moore) and Ben (John Krasinski) are getting married (because they met at the start of the movie.)" |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) |
"The audacity of The Life Aquatic is in director Wes Anderson stepping through fashionable attitude and into human essence." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Life of David Gale (2003) |
"[It] requires an audience capable of overlooking its preachy manipulations, non-descript filmmaking, and senseless ending all because they find its ideology reasonable." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Life or Something Like It (2002) |
"The film carries itself with the same fake, contented evasiveness throughout." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lifeboat (1944) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Lilo & Stitch (2002) |
"Incorporates the thematic influences of The Iron Giant and My Neighbor Totoro with its own brand of unhinged zaniness." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Little Black Book (2004) |
"The first and last quarters show real ambition. It’s the middle hour that’s a drag." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Little Children (2006) |
"Little Children's stone-cold suburbia reaches for Kubrick, but is also half Spielberg." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Little Man (2006) |
"There's a degree of social comedy in White Chicks' black cops posing as wax mannequin exaggerations of the Hilton sisters. Nothing much is gained when delinquent midgets see what it's like to live as babies." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Little Man Tate (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) |
"It works better than most movies with a quirky Sundance pedigree, because the filmmakers aren't quick to paint any of their characters as morally wrong." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Lives of Others (2006) |
"Von Donnersmarck moves certain sequences too slowly, but matches his tightest suspense with human intrigue." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lolita (1962) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Lone Star (1996) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Look Who's Talking (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Lookout (2007) |
"That The Lookout isn't stronger as a whole is due to its effort to fit a character piece into thriller conventions." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Looney Tunes - Back in Action (2003) |
"It channels the culturally astute frenzy of Chuck Jones’s cartoons, with gags piling up so furiously that it’s an effort to keep up with half of them." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"It reaches down your mouth and rips out your throat." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
"Though it will take snobs another decade or so to admit it, here lies the end of a major landmark in film history." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
"Where few movies even contemplate delivering an experience this glorious, The Two Towers is uncompromising and unmissable." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Lord of War (2005) |
"The remainder of Andrew Niccol’s film is so conservatively directed that the opening’s audacious style is missed." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Lords of Dogtown (2005) |
"It’s played at a level of youth film energy that I never felt director Catherine Hardwicke reached in her previous effort Thirteen." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Lost in Translation (2003) |
"Never missing a step, it continues The Virgin Suicide’s vision of the world as a dreamscape of intangible longings." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
A Lot Like Love (2005) |
"No sane person dates anyone who identifies with this." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Love & a .45 (1994) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
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