Tomato |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"Every act in the film has a mythic resonance." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
L'Iceberg (2005) |
"Once we’re out to sea the movie goes swimmingly -- its three protagonists fighting, flailing, and often on the verge of drowning as their tiny skiff surges toward the land of the Inuit." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) |
"A portrait of one of the world’s great companies by one of the world’s great vérité documentarians." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"La Vie en Rose has some peculiar ellipses." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
La Zona (2007) |
"Some may sniff at director Rodrigo Plá’s deliberately exaggerated style, but it makes no pretensions to authenticity. Indeed, it’s just audacious enough to work -- like Crash reimagined by Rod Serling." |
Bilge Ebiri |
Tomato |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"I found the first half-hour a snooze, but once I adjusted to the movie's rhythms, I was completely enraptured." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"Like Splash reworked by a grandiose Sunday-school teacher." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"South Korean director Park Chan-wook's tremendous conclusion to his Vengeance trilogy is a modern classic." |
Ken Tucker |
Tomato |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"It's both lowdown and effete, a jamboree of whoopee jokes and sick wit." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Lagaan (2001) |
"If you've never experienced a Bollywood musical before, seeing Lagaan will be like watching Gone With the Wind without ever having seen a Hollywood movie." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Lake House (2006) |
"Those wishing to suppress real-life traumas may submit to the deliriously stupid romantic time-travel drama The Lake House -- I did and had a jolly time." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"This sprawling, scary, nearly unbearable film [is] more important than ever." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"Often howlingly funny, and the actors are a treat." |
David Edelstein |
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The Last Castle (2001) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"Extremely entertaining if you don’t mind being morally corrupted at every juncture." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"The film is phenomenally well directed by Kevin Macdonald and edited by Justine Wright to bring out every bit of scary volatility in the most casual interactions." |
David Edelstein |
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The Last Kiss (2002) |
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Peter Rainer |
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The Last Letter (2003) |
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Peter Rainer |
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Last Orders (2002) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Last Resort (2001) |
"One of the few films to get at the ways in which single mothers and their sons alternate being authority figures." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"The Last Samurai is an idyll in which the savageries of existence are transcended by spiritual devotion. That’s a beautiful dream, and it gives the film a deep pleasingness, but the fullness of life and its blackest ambiguities are sacrificed." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Last Waltz (1978) |
"Seeing The Last Waltz again after many years is like revisiting an old passion and realizing the heat is still there." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Last Winter (2007) |
"The Last Winter was shot in northern Iceland and Alaska, and despite some too-explicit imagery in the final moments, the claustrophobia-to-psychosis continuum is harrowingly fluid." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Late August, Early September (1998) |
"The cast, including Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, and Mathieu Amalric, is as well coordinated as a fine chamber-music ensemble; their entrances and vanishings and re-entries play like recurring motifs." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Late Marriage (2001) |
"Judith and Zaza's extended bedroom sequence ... is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"The actors work hard to concoct some chemistry, but it's tough to be Tracy and Hepburn, let alone Doris Day and Rock Hudson, when you’re trying to get your mouth around lines that wouldn't pass muster on a UPN sitcom." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) |
"... a bit too underplayed for its own good." |
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Splat |
The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999) |
"Another lusciously produced, emotionally clammy Redford enterprise -- forced, phony mythmaking filled with tinged sunsets and full moons." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"Tomas Alfredson somehow takes a wild premise -- a ravenous 12-year-old bloodsucker who strikes up a romance with a bullied young boy in small-town Sweden -- and executes it with restraint and style." |
Logan Hill |
Tomato |
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
"Too old for another Dirty Harry movie, Eastwood embraced the role of brooding, fatalistic American Master -- and, I’m bound to say, is finally beginning to wear it more convincingly." |
David Edelstein |
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Liberty Heights (1999) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Liberty Kid (2007) |
"Chaiken's subtle narrative touch, along with the exceptionally strong performances of leads Al Thompson and Kareem Savinon, gives this one a rare emotional pull." |
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Splat |
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008) |
"In between snorting and rolling your eyes, you can pass the time pitying Thurman, who has to emote in a vacuum, and admiring Wood." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Life of David Gale (2003) |
"Low thrills and high dudgeon are a bad mix." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Life of Reilly (2007) |
"Occasionally you see a documentary and it hits you how much you don’t know about someone who was part of your mental landscape. Charles Nelson Reilly didn’t arouse much of anything in me, but he does in The Life of Reilly." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Limey (1999) |
"The movie has lots of drive, and it keeps Stamp front and center almost continuously, even in flashbacks." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"It’s unfair to call Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control the emptiest movie ever made, but I wrote that in my notebook as I struggled to stay awake." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"The new antiwar pictures are all clunks and wind, but they’re full of fervent acting and affectingly rough -- they lack the usual studio overpolish. Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs is the clunkiest, windiest, and roughest of the lot." |
David Edelstein |
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Lisa Picard is Famous (2001) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Little Children (2006) |
"As Little Children skitters along, it gathers weight, like a snowball, until it finally knocks you cold." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) |
"Little Miss Sunshine is an enchanting anthem to loserdom -- a dark comedy that piles on setback after setback and yet never loses its helium." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Live Flesh (1997) |
"Despite his erotic fixations, Pedro Almodóvar is the cinema’s last true innocent." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The Lives of Others (2006) |
"A cunning piece of construction -- a Kafkaesque tearjerker, a tragic farce." |
David Edelstein |
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) |
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Peter Rainer |
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Lolita (1997) |
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David Denby |
Tomato |
Look Both Ways (2006) |
"... deliriously inventive ..." |
David Edelstein |
- |
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006) |
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David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Lookout (2007) |
"Frank's writing is razor-sharp, his filmmaking whistle-clean." |
David Edelstein |
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The Lord of the Rings (1978) |
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Peter Rainer |
Splat |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"Tolkien completists won't find any of this overkill, but for those uninitiates among us, less is more is still a dictum worth heeding." |
Peter Rainer |
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