Tomato 4/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"The intimacy the directors achieve with their actors is nothing short of uncanny: Renier and François go about their business with such naturalness and determination, you forget there are performances going on." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"Both unnervingly frank and disarmingly human." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"Marion Cotillard is a knockout in this scintillating and soulful musical bio." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"Bearable only to people in deep mourning and vulnerable to emotional coercion. Which is, of course what makes the whole thing so distasteful." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Smith is at her jauntiest, but it's Dench who catches you by surprise because she's rarely been given a character so emotionally vulnerable and delicately yearning." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"A reasonably pleasant ramble." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"Despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity, the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils, political intrigue and brushes with calamity." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 4/4 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"A film of sun-dappled beauty and unbridled joys that arrive as much as a surprise to the audience as they do to the characters." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"Unless he retains the poise and cool that made Sixth Sense stand out so conspicuously amid his body of work, we're not going to care about anything in his head." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"Lady Vengeance dazzles us with cinematic savoir-faire, but it is ultimately as cold, calculating and contradictory as its anti-heroine." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"The movie is anything but concise, and Hanks is only fascinating because you can't quite believe he's doing what he's doing." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lagaan (2001) |
"In some ways, Lagaan is quintessential Bollywood. Except it's much, much better." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"Somehow, one thinks, your tear ducts will come away from this without incident." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"Wherever you stand on the volatile issue of abortion, Tony Kaye's exhaustive documentary could dislodge your certainties with a broad survey of opinion from opposite extremes and explicit depictions of medical procedures." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
Lakeboat (2001) |
"An elegiac and tartly amusing tribute to a group of guys trying to make the most of the hand life has dealt them." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"A slightly poky thriller punctuated by some effectively tense scenes." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Lan Yu (2002) |
"Kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing, while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"Not a children's movie, but a movie for people with childlike minds, Land of the Lost" combines the kind of juvenile humor that might amuse a 14-year-old with a shoddy plot that wouldn't satisfy a 5-year-old." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato |
Lantana (2001) |
"Intricate, elegant, sophisticated and multilayered drama." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"After a while, you stop speculating how Croft will wriggle out of each fine mess and start checking your watch." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"Highly anticipated adaptation of the popular computer game is uneven, sometimes awkward, but Angelina Jolie makes the title character a virtual icon of female competence and coolth." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) |
"Larry isn't an evil movie, but it is a symptom of the problems inherent in gross-out humor." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"What's remarkable about Lars and the Real Girl is the tightrope that [screenwriter Nancy] Oliver finesses, aided by her director and winning cast, between improbability and reality, edgy absurdist humor and melting tenderness. It's a tonic." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Lassie (2006) |
"Knight's story retains enough of its power to ensure, even in this modest rendering, that it never fails to make your eyes mist and your cheeks warm." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"An intermittently witty script and Rod Lurie's assured direction triumph over the cornball factor." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Days (2005) |
"For those in tune with its director's loping rhythms, Last Days probes its way under the skin like a needle in search of a vein." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"If Last Holiday were a song, it'd be one of Earth, Wind and Fire's brassier anthems of uplift and self-realization." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"Its main goals are to shock, titillate, enrage and otherwise jolt your reflexes, which it does shrewdly and successfully." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"The colonialist spirit is alive and well in The Last King of Scotland, a return to the pandering celluloid depictions of African turmoil that insist on putting a white face on black suffering." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Last Kiss (2002) |
"Don't let the Italian context throw you. You've seen this crowd many times before, although probably not in anything as bombastic and tiresome as The Last Kiss." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"What happens in The Last Kiss may be a pitfall of translation: A European movie in which unhappiness reigns usually employs enough sense of the absurd to make it all palatable. Here, it's just unremittingly sad." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Legion (2007) |
"Despite the occasional gleam of wit, very little is to be taken seriously -- not the story, not the acting and certainly not the history." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Last Life in the Universe (2004) |
"A sort of magic-realist Thai version of Lost in Translation, Last Life in the Universe is of the unlikely romance school of comedy, at once despairingly glib and buoyantly dark." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"Goes about its business with a welcomely wry humor that undercuts the scenario's earnest New Age-y potential. If it isn't always crystal clear about what's on its mind, it speaks its heart in a language that kids totally get." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last Mistress (2008) |
"It's devastating." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Last Orders (2002) |
"The performers are so spot on, it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Last Resort (2001) |
"Fasten your seat belt, and don't blink for a second." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Through it all, Tom Cruise stares soulfully past the camera, on toward a catering truck where sushi rolls and ham sandwiches dwell side by side in harmony." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Last Shot (2004) |
"With a few detours into questionable taste, it's a hoot." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Time (2006) |
"While his cast is first-rate, director-writer Michael Caleo doesn't know quite what his movie is about." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last Winter (2007) |
"The acting's good, the camera work is haunting and [director] Fessenden continues to build his image as the thinking person's creepmeister." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Late Marriage (2001) |
"The frankness of Kosashvili's film may be a bit breathtaking, but because it is, you believe every moment." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"[McDormand] makes both the character and her Laurel Canyon sanctuary feel genuinely lived." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"Not only is it a hapless crime drama about outrage and revenge, it provides the sad spectacle of a movie far less intelligent than the one its filmmakers thought they were making." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"Julianne Moore can be many, many wonderful things -- beautiful, talented, redheaded, heartbreaking -- but funny doesn't seem to be one of them." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) |
"The results, while a bit overlong, are engaging and real." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen may end up being the film that defined the season: underwritten and overwritten, effects-driven, inspired by a comic book and unlikely to drive those on- the-fence audiences back into theaters anytime soon." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2005) |
"Christopher Browne's nonfiction chronicle of the Professional Bowlers Association's quest to retrieve its once-widespread popularity carries more warmth, intimacy and grit -- and still manages to be as witty and engrossing as any Hollywood comedy." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Leatherheads (2008) |
"Both behind and before the camera, Clooney imbues Leatherheads with an irresistible charm and intelligence, raising it far above the average period piece." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"A perfectly enjoyable film, as long as you let go of a few glaringly obvious contradictions." |
John Anderson |
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