Splat 2/4 |
L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin (2003) |
"Talking heads and shots of the grim landscape can get awfully tiresome." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"It's expertly directed in a low-key, naturalistic way that brings to mind French auteur Robert Bresson. It's also emotionally forceful and contains heartbreaking performances by Jeremie Renier as Bruno and Déborah François as Sonia." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
L'Iceberg (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"A well-acted, provocative coming-of-age story." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Commune (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
La Mentale: The Code (2004) |
"A boring and violent French crime thriller." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Moustache (2005) |
"La Moustache, the first feature by novelist Emmanuel Carrere, begins as a comedy, but grows darker and darker by the frame. It's like a Hitchcock thriller filtered through the mind of Austrian firebrand Michael Haneke, who gave us Cache." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
La Scorta (1993) |
"Exciting as La Scorta might be, it is at heart a conventional thriller that breaks no new genre ground." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Tropical (2006) |
"Shot in black-and-white, La Tropical serves as an atmospheric portrait of Cuba in the twilight of Castro's rule." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"Marion Cotillard delivers a tour de force as legendary singer Édith Piaf." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
La Vie Promise |
"Isabelle Huppert is such a wonderful actress, it's a shame that her latest film to reach our shores, La Vie Promise, directed by Olivier Dahan, isn't better." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"Plays as if the filmmakers compiled a list of every smoke-eater cliché imaginable and then resolutely set about crossing them off." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 2/4 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"For all the film's good intentions, it never comes to a dramatic boil." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"Arguably the limpest film yet spun out from a Saturday Night Live sketch." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"Talky, sluggish melodrama." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"Intelligent and tasteful, even while being sexually frank." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Lady In Question is Charles Busch (2006) |
"Invaluable as theater history." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"An act of spectacular (if unwitting) self-immolation." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"Novices should prepare for mind-bending bloodshed and violence." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"Worth sticking with for Hanks' and Hall's superlative acting -- and a rollicking gospel score assembled by T. Bone Burnett." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Lagaan (2001) |
"If you can swallow its absurdities and crudities Lagaan really is enormously good fun." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1/4 |
Lagerfeld Confidential (2007) |
"Comes off as something that might have been made by Lagerfeld's own army of publicists in Paris." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Lake City (2008) |
"One of those Deep Dark Secret movies, the dull indie Lake City combines a wholly uninteresting family mystery with a wholly unconvincing crime drama." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
" The sort of dopey movie best appreciated while wearing pajamas." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"[The] film does nothing to advance the debate but does a great deal to show us what's at stake." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato |
Lake Placid (1999) |
"Lake Placid combines humor and thrills with remarkable deftness." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lake Tahoe (2009) |
"With Lake Tahoe, Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke proves himself adept at turning a blank screen into a work of art." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"Lakeview Terrace holds your interest, though the bad faith on all sides makes it something of an endurance test." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Lan Yu (2002) |
"Deserves high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic merits." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Land of Plenty (2004) |
"Land of Plenty has a few too many coincidences and tends to be sugary, but it has an important precautionary message in this age of terror." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Land of the Blind (2006) |
"Writer-director Robert Edwards frantically throws in references to Orwell (Animal Farm and 1984), Lady Macbeth, Yeats, Mao, etc." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat .5/4 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"Pity the unwitting parents who take their kids to see Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell's terminally stupid, sloppy, campy and cheesy -- and thoroughly unexciting and unfunny -- experiment in 'family entertainment.'" |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Langrishe, Go Down (1978) |
"An atmospheric and subtly engrossing relationship saga." |
Megan Turner |
Tomato |
Lantana (2001) |
"Thoughtful, well-paced." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"Banal dialogue, ludicrous and uninspired plotting, dull but vicious fight scenes." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"A tedious bore that deserves early entombment." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 0/4 |
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) |
"Virtually unwatchable and laugh-free." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"The script by Six Feet Under writer Nancy Oliver eschews cheap laughs for character-driven humanist comedy." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lassie (2006) |
"Lassie is a dog movie even non-dog lovers will lap up." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"The story is a stirring vehicle for serious themes embodied by sharply drawn characters." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"Slight but utterly charming." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Dance (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
Clive Barnes |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Dance (2002) |
"Discursive but oddly riveting documentary." |
Clive Barnes |
Splat 1/4 |
Last Days (2005) |
"Sorely lacks the angry energy and wit Cobain brought to his work." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"Last Holiday is a thoroughly mediocre dramedy." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"The remake is much glossier but also takes place mostly in real time, using long takes, genuinely disturbing violence and stretches with no dialogue to pin you to the story." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"The Last King of Scotland is a parable shocking in its truth, jolting in its lack of sentimentality, Shakespearean in its vision of the doctor's catastrophic flaw." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Last Kiss (2002) |
"Surprisingly for a comedy, it's the moments of heavy drama in The Last Kiss that pack the bigger punch." |
Megan Turner |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"... a middling remake of a mediocre Italian comedy pandering to the chick-flick crowd ..." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Letter (2003) |
"In a tour-de-force performance, Samie conveys volumes with her powerful voice." |
Lou Lumenick |
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