Splat 2.5/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"Even for a useless criminal, Bruno is just not a compelling personality. Unreadable lumps generally aren't." |
Amy Biancolli |
- |
L'Ennui (1998) |
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Tomato |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"Fun, if you have the stomach for it." |
Jeff Millar |
Splat 2/4 |
L.A. Twister (2004) |
"Seeing Hollywood as a business indifferent to dreamers with no cash flow isn't a revelation, but a given. If you're going to hold a mirror up to Tinseltown, at least try tilting it at a new angle." |
Bruce Westbrook |
Tomato |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"It is the work of a young director with something to say." |
Eric Harrison |
- |
L5: First City in Space |
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- |
La Buche (2000) |
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- |
La Ley De Herodes (2000) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
La Moustache (2005) |
"Spins an agitated mystery well beyond its minimalist starting point, offering up giant questions about sanity and identity on its trip from the bathroom mirror." |
Amy Biancolli |
Tomato |
La Promesse (1996) |
"The film is entirely within the caught-on-the-run tradition of cinema verite, which makes it all the grittier and its conclusion all the more wrenching." |
Jeff Millar |
Splat 2/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"Compelling but punishing -- an artful ordeal. The best way to process it may be as unintended camp, rolling your eyes in amazement at its litany of misery and heaps of histrionics." |
Bruce Westbrook |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"An imperfect but deeply affecting movie about the unadorned heroism of working-class firefighters." |
Amy Biancolli |
- |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
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Splat |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"Pointless, sporadically funny exercise." |
Eric Harrison |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007) |
"If you want dangerous schemes to be light-hearted entertainment, you've got to make allowances. Besides, the payoffs are worth it - in any language." |
Bruce Westbrook |
- |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"In the end, Shyamalan's stumbling Lady never gives us a reason to believe." |
Amy Biancolli |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"Squanders plot impetus, and even with constant crosscutting it's lethargically paced, slogging through soap-operatic back stories and maddening irrelevancies." |
Bruce Westbrook |
Tomato B+ |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"Hanks hasn't cut loose in a comedy like this in years." |
Eric Harrison |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"The film moves toward a spooky coincidence that canny viewers will predict in the first act. I wish I hadn't; it killed all the film's suspense and much of its dewy seduction." |
Amy Biancolli |
- |
Lake Placid (1999) |
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Tomato |
Lakeboat (2001) |
"More play than movie. But it's unusual for either. It's neither plot-driven like many plays nor action- and image-driven like most movies." |
Louis B. Parks |
- |
Lan Yu (2002) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"It all amounts to a certain brand of comedy -- something closer to long-form Dada than conventional humor." |
Amy Biancolli |
Tomato |
Lantana (2001) |
"Solving the mystery of the dead body would be enough for most Hollywood movies. In Lantana, it's merely a device to launch us into more rewarding explorations." |
Eric Harrison |
Splat C+ |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"The new film isn't very good, but it's possible to sit through it without holding your nose." |
Eric Harrison |
Splat |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"See summer films such as Tomb Raider, Swordfish and Pearl Harbor over and over again, as young people are wont to do, and your mind is liable to atrophy from lack of use." |
Eric Harrison |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lassie (2006) |
"This new Lassie is no match for the original MGM production (Roddy McDowell, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, etc.), but there are many compensations that make it fine family entertainment." |
Louis B. Parks |
- |
The Last Castle (2001) |
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Tomato |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"A powerfully patriotic movie." |
Eric Harrison |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Last Days (2005) |
"Watching paint dry would be better. At least the paint would be busy drying." |
Bruce Westbrook |
Splat 2/4 |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"A mild, fangless, forgettable thing that entertains some and offends little, barring one obnoxious subcontinental stereotype and a cloying urge to make everybody chipper at the end." |
Amy Biancolli |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"See the movie for Whitaker alone: He's possessed by evil and possesses it wholly, rendering the film (and everyone in it) his plaything." |
Amy Biancolli |
- |
The Last Kiss (2002) |
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- |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
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- |
Last Man Standing (1996) |
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- |
Last Night (1998) |
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|
Tomato B+ |
Last Orders (2002) |
"The lovely and richly textured British film Last Orders is as well-acted as any film you'll ever see." |
Eric Harrison |
Tomato |
Last Resort (2001) |
"Dramatically low-key, Last Resort is beautifully acted, with striking realism." |
Eric Harrison |
Tomato C+ |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Despite the slow-moving and overly reverential parts, Algren's passage from bitter, self-loathing alcoholic to a man renewed and committed is emotionally satisfying in a way many bloated recent Hollywood productions can't accomplish." |
Eric Harrison |
- |
The Last September (1999) |
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- |
Late Bloomers (1996) |
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- |
Late Marriage (2001) |
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- |
Latter Days (2004) |
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Tomato A- |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"Laurel Canyon's end isn't entirely satisfying, but the story works." |
Eric Harrison |
Splat 2/4 |
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"Vigilante movies hold a firm place in cinematic history, but for them to work, the vigilante needs to be a sympathetic anti-hero." |
Amy Biancolli |
- |
Lawless Heart (2002) |
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|
Splat C+ |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"Laws plays like a middling episode of Moonlighting, with the focus on the lawyers instead of the private eyes they hire." |
Eric Harrison |
Tomato 4/4 |
Layer Cake (2005) |
"A gangster film, despite what its title suggests, that ranks with the best of the genre." |
Eric Harrison |
Tomato B |
Le Cercle Rouge (1970) |
"A moody, deliberately paced meditation on destiny (and style) enlivened by stunning bits of business." |
Eric Harrison |
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