Tomato |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"A sad social commentary in the style of Robert Bresson." |
Rex Reed |
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L'Ennui (1998) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
L'Iceberg (2005) |
"So much of the narrative takes place in and under one body of water or another that the sea itself becomes a metaphor for life and its circuitous route to absurdity. This is to say that I’m not sure what The Iceberg is, but it sure is something." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"A parlor game has already begun as to whether the supreme acting revelation in L.A. Confidential is provided by Mr. Crowe, Mr. Spacey or Mr. Pearce." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"This is a very unsettling film that left me shaking long after I left the theater." |
Rex Reed |
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La Buche (2000) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
La Moustache (2005) |
"What does it all mean? We are never quite sure. All we learn from this relentless saga of mental and physical solitude are the many varieties of suffering one can endure when one feels alone in the universe." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"All I can say is that the total experience left me in tears, albeit also with a feeling of total emotional exhaustion." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"The movie, the voice of Piaf, and a performance that turns Marion Cotillard into a great new star shimmer with the kind of beauty, power, intensity and visual opulence you might want to experience again and again." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
La Vie Promise |
"An acting vehicle for the eternally sensual Isabelle Huppert." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Ladies in Lavender, carefully written and superbly directed by the actor Charles Dance, is a film of unusual elegance and artistry." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"At once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"Lady Chatterley leads us into the thickets of D.H. Lawrence’s fiercely tender saga of a sexual communion between a man and a woman of different classes, but similarly affected in their enforced solitudes by the wonders and glories of nature." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"Hollywood cannot pollute the ozone with anything more idiotic, contrived, amateurish or sub-mental than Lady in the Water." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"In the end Geum-ja emerges as a stirring feminist icon..." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Lake City (2008) |
"There is very little wasted motion, to be sure, but also very little real-life like ambience." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Lake City (2008) |
"As for Sissy Spacek, I can’t think of a sounder role to reflect the unique qualities that make her so special." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
The Lake House (2006) |
"I have always felt that both Ms. Bullock’s patented expressions of anguish and Mr. Reeves’ stoical minimalism have been somewhat underrated." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Lake House (2006) |
"The pieces of the puzzle don’t fit together to form a coherent or satisfying narrative, and all you’re left with is a big, dumb 'Huh?'" |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"Mr. LaBute has fashioned a suspenseful film out of the peculiar vagaries of the casting, which makes us fear the worst at every turn of the plot." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Land of the Blind (2006) |
"If satire is the thing that closes on Saturday night, then political satire is usually doomed to close one night earlier. In the case of a pretentious monstrosity called Land of the Blind, it’s a miracle it ever opened at all." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Langrishe, Go Down (1978) |
"The fragmented storytelling is, well, vintage Pinter, but Ms. Dench and Mr. Irons remain mesmerizing after all this time." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Lantana (2001) |
"Mr. LaPaglia, Ms. Armstrong, Mr. Rush and Ms. Hershey invest their roles with a profound humanity." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"Under Mr. Gillespie’s admirably directed seriousness of tone, the performers, particularly Mr. Gosling, Ms. Mortimer, Mr. Schneider, Ms. Clarkson, Ms. Gardner and Mr. Reid, never miss a beat." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"Mr. Hoffman, now past 70, and Ms. Thompson, inching toward 50, still retain enough buoyancy to keep the picture afloat. And the rest of the cast kicks in with flawless ensemble support." |
Andrew Sarris |
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The Last Days of Disco (1998) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"Mr. Whitaker and Mr. McAvoy head a first-rate cast that helps The Last King of Scotland to illuminate one of the many dark chapters in recent African history." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"A thunderous performance by Forest Whitaker as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin informs and ignites The Last King of Scotland so far beyond its limitations as both a biopic and a political thriller that he becomes the movie itself." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Last Life in the Universe (2004) |
"[Reflects] the growing interpenetration of many individual national cinemas into a cultural conglomerate that reflects the irresistible tide of cinematic globalization." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Last Mistress (2008) |
"Ms. Breillat has forgone the anarchic force of her earlier forays into the still relatively underdeveloped realm of female sexuality. As a pioneer of sorts in her field, she has earned this temporary respite of classicism represented by The Last Mistress." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Last Orders (2002) |
"Though the book runs only about 300 pages, it is so densely packed ... that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like Mr. Schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Even though The Last Samurai is brutal, exhausting and so not my kind of movie, it is extremely well-made and undeniably engrossing." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
The Last Station (2009) |
"The arrival of a movie with as much intelligence and artistry as The Last Station should also be accompanied by the sound of trumpets." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
The Last Time (2006) |
"For all the good work that went into it, the movie is as phony as a game of three-card monte." |
Rex Reed |
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Late Marriage (2001) |
"The last scenes of the film are anguished, bitter and truthful. Mr. Koshashvili is a director to watch." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Laura Smiles (2007) |
"Ms. Wright and all her acting colleagues provide very persuasive performances amid the shifting perspectives of Mr. Ruscio’s convoluted storytelling." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"What rescues this situation from the formulaic banality it seems to be headed toward is the seriousness with which the filmmakers take the actual work being done by the various characters." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"It has power above and below the waist, and proves that not all the navels in L.A. are in the oranges." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Lawless Heart (2002) |
"Good, sophisticated, warm-hearted fun (poor Dan excluded), and should be seen." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"A fun date flick." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Le Cercle Rouge (1970) |
"Henri Decae's (1915-1987) marvelously precise cinematography, inspiringly attuned to Melville's tragic vision of the lives and deaths of the most stoical criminals in the noir genre, is alone worth the price of admission." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) |
"When the action finally picks up in the pursuit of a ruthless Russian gang of killers, the relationship between Caroline and Antoine is delivered a devastating emotional wallop." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Le Petite Jerusalem (2006) |
"In their separate ways, Laura and Mathilde have discovered how to shape their own destinies in a turbulent period of clashing civilizations." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"Ms. Witherspoon won me over right from the start." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) |
"May be the worst film I have ever seen with an actress I have previously adored: in this case, Reese Witherspoon." |
Andrew Sarris |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999) |
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Andrew Sarris |
- |
The Legend of Rita (2001) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Lemming (2006) |
"The actors are more than equal to their eccentric roles, and the film is well worth seeing as a tantalizingly cerebral and unpredictable thriller." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Lemming (2006) |
"The narrative surrealism can be annoying, but it's never less than riveting, and the acting is superb." |
Rex Reed |
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