Splat 5/10 |
L.A. Takedown (1989) |
"A film much better written than executed... has the appearance at every moment of a hatchet job that got cranked out in record time because nobody involved had any real desire to make it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"Marion Cotillard is perfection itself in this role." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Lady and the Tramp (1955) |
"Easily the most beautifully-animated piece to come out of the Disney Studios since the Golden Age ended." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"Doesn't quite feel as definitive as the filmmaker intended, although I can't imagine how any film on the subject could get closer than this." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"A glossy "bad cop" thriller that achieves only a banal, surface-level recreation of Neil LaBute's old cage-rattling proclivities." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
The Land Before Time (1988) |
"What charmed me when I first saw it as a six-year-old in theaters now strikes me as rather middling, indifferent storytelling and character development." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) |
"The subject is, by any standard, worth suffering the sometimes dodgy filmmaking." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"Nothing at all besides two funnymen and one disposable, objectified woman running from place to place, screaming a bit, joking about bodily functions, and running around a bit more." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"The wonderful performances are the crux of the movie, and its primary success; for there are significant problems with the story as a story." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"Entirely satisfying, and a perfectly worthy use of 100 minutes. There are points in life when it does not do to ask any more of a film than this." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"Much less tawdry than the original, and much more harrowing." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Last Man on Earth (1964) |
"Where the film fails as a narrative - and it fails rather mightily in places - it succeeds as a mood piece." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Last Mistress (2008) |
"Asia Argento is the lively center of a sometimes meandering tale of sexual intrigue." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) |
"Positively sprints through its narrative, achieving the adventuresome spirit so hopelessly absent from Cooper's clumsy and simple novel." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Le Mans (1971) |
"It's better perhaps to view it as a visual poem about cars in motion." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1989) |
"It's certainly a cut above the standard late-'80s horror film, though hardly up to the level of Tobe Hooper's original." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Leatherheads (2008) |
"The first truly heartbreaking disappointment of the movie year...too drowsy for its own good, less an homage and more a terribly slowed-down retread of some screwball tropes." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1973) |
"Silly beyond words, but it's the kind of silly that's also incredible fun and awesome, especially if you are or once were or ever wanted to be a twelve-year-old boy." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Lemon Tree (2008) |
"While the script crackles along, the visuals are powerfully uninteresting." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Leopard (1963) |
"There have been plenty of movies about the conflict of the old and the new, but none seem to contain the whole world in their scope the way that The Leopard does." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Les Vampires (1915) |
"A cracking good story...in those wonderful moments where Musidora's kohl-marked face stares right out of the screen and into your soul, it's terribly perfect." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"An awfully wonderful vampire story, thanks largely to pushing itself so far beyond the limits that "vampire story" usually implies." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
License To Wed (2007) |
"It's not quite as bad as some would have it (it will not, for example, kill puppies), but it is really very horrible." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008) |
"Full of fussed-over significant images and delicately planned interlocking narrative motives, and it's about as subtle and clever as somebody clubbing you over the head with a folding chair" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Life of Oharu (1952) |
"Though the film is wrenching like few others, this is only because it is also a masterpiece." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Lights In The Dusk (2007) |
"A wholly satisfying comic-existential bit of fluff." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Lilo & Stitch (2002) |
"It is the sweetest Disney movie of its generation; but the lengthy beginning and somewhat shorter climax drag it down at the worst possible points." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"Where I see thrilling structural and formal exploration, another viewer could see so much pretentious twaddle, and that's a perfectly reasonable response." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Lion King (1994) |
"The animation is extraordinarily beautiful, and more technically accomplished than any other film of the Disney Renaissance... [but] the drama and characters are terribly lacking." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"It's a great muddle from the word go." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Little Ashes (2009) |
"Exactly the kind of flavorless bourgeois froth that the men it takes for its subjects would have ridiculed mercilessly." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Little Mermaid (1989) |
"The long-awaited proof that Disney animation could, in fact, return almost the quality and beauty of its Golden Age." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Lola (1961) |
"Intuited rather than explained & felt rather than understood." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Long Good Friday (1979) |
"Its representation of Christ's modern-day doppelganger as a grubby little crimelord is certainly compelling." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Looking for Eric (2009) |
"If it is ultimately a bit on the shallow side, that conclusion doesn't seem to matter much at the end of the film's frequently hilarious 116 minutes." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Lookout (2007) |
"Refreshingly stripped-down." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973) |
"One of those immensely modest little 1970s dramedy gems that nobody talks about... but every time anyone sees one of them, their response is always the same: "that was a great little movie"." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
The Love Guru (2008) |
"Despite its already toxic reputation, it has probably 12 or 18 gags that really work...[but] while some of the jokes click, most of the jokes that fail, fail apocalyptically." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) |
"It's very pretty and very prestigious and it has no heart." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Love Me Tonight (1932) |
"Hollywood's first musical masterpiece...pushed the limits of conventional narrative filmmaking until they just about broke." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"[Peter] Jackson's directorial abilities have failed him entirely." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Lucky You (2007) |
"As soon as it has to face the real world, and deal with "emotions," it goes completely slack." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Lust, Caution (2007) |
"The sex scenes, and the love story that sparks them, simply don't work, and that's not a minor problem." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Lymelife (2009) |
"[Good acting] can certainly help, and for the most part Lymelife is functionally competent and barely familiar enough to be dull." |
Tim Brayton |
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