Tomato |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"It's a fiercely compelling tale, the acting is among the year's best, so I wish Cuesta had been content to leave it at that." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"A pleasant, sometimes stirring movie that's riddled with plaster saints --it's all backslapping and camaraderie, which is often agreeable but even more often dull.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"Has M. Night Shyamalan lost his damn mind?" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"...a bit hit and miss as far as the Coens are concerned, but I daresay Hanks has never been so delicious.
" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Lake House (2006) |
"The entire concept sounds like something Tony Leung dreamed up on a bender during 2046. Sure, it's complete nonsense... but what lush, irresistibly entertaining nonsense.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"I'm not exactly sure when Zach Braff decided to become my generation's spokesperson, and I'm even less certain he's the right man for the job." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Last Orders (2002) |
"If only Schepisi didn't spend the movie pulling his punches and pouring on the phony uplift, Last Orders could have been a contender." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Alas, Tom's ego has landed. It's the kind of obsequious, star-f%@!ing glory-hole Cruise has been savvy enough to avoid for the past decade." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Last Shot (2004) |
"Unremarkable, noisy and crude; but there is a low-key kick in watching Baldwin and Broderick enjoy each other so immensely." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Last Waltz (1978) |
"Martin Scorsese's giddiest, most euphoric film." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"Are you ready for 'Marge Gunderson: Sex Goddess'?" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Layer Cake (2005) |
"Like The Sopranos, Layer Cake presents the criminal underworld as a tiring, middle-management nightmare." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Legend of Zorro (2005) |
"In lieu of swashbucking, there's enough genital trauma here to fill three Adam Sandler movies.
" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato B |
The Letter - An American Town and the Somali Invasion (2003) |
"Were it simply a case of truth being stranger than fiction, Syrian-born filmmaker Ziad Hamzeh's America-set doc (which played New York last month) would sport one of the year's most thrilling plots." |
Matt Prigge |
Tomato |
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
"This is a mournful, difficult film, but also a masterful one. Eastwood finds pockets of kindness and humanity where you'd least expect them, and once again cements his hard-earned reputation as the restless inquisitor of our national mythologies." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Libertine (2005) |
"It takes an actor in complete command of his charisma to get away with this kind of murder-- exposing the sick blackness of his soul with a sultry smile. Shame about the movie, though." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) |
"Murray shines through Anderson's artificial half-movie -- always offering something sadder and deeper. Still, it's hard to get invested when the director won't stop winking." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) |
"After your heart has been beaten, bludgeoned, anally raped and stomped upon, there's still another hour left to go..." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"Jim Jarmusch is a national treasure, and The Limits of Control is his first stinker." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"It's the role of an artist to not just comment on current events, but also to shape that commentary into a dramatic form that'll excite, move and inspire people. Lions for Lambs isn't filmmaking; it's list-making." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Little Children (2006) |
"Lesser actors would suffocate under director Todd Field's stringent formalism... so it's a good thing he's got the amazing Kate Winslet giving the performance of her already brilliant career." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) |
"Look beyond the Sundance hype and you'll see exactly the kind of mainstream comedy major studios should be churning out on a regular basis: warm, accessible and with a lot to say about our modern life.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Longest Yard (2005) |
"A cowardly, PG-13 remake for a more timid era, viewing incarceration as a happy playground of product-placement and jokey homosexual panic." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Look at Me (2005) |
"Now that Woody Allen has gone off the rails, it seems the next best thing for urbane moviegoers seeking sharp, educated comedic dramas is French up-and-comer Agnès Jaoui..." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006) |
"Though his last couple of efforts felt distressingly watered-down, Brooks has got a lot of his old edge back in this often-riotous send-up of ugly Americanism run amok.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat B- |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"It's a collection of spectacular set pieces without any sense of momentum driving them into one another. The damn thing just goes on and on." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
"In other words, it's exactly like the last picture - only bigger and louder. And there's more of it... It ain't deep, but it sure is wide." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
"It's a heartier, goofier yarn, refreshingly short on the pompous solemnity that bogged down its predecessor." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Lord of War (2005) |
"It's one of this year's most ambitious movies, and also one of the angriest.
" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Lost in Translation (2003) |
"This picture moved me to tears three times. There's a world of hurt under them there laughs." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Love Actually (2003) |
"I walked into the theater exhausted and pissed off. I left grinning like an imbecile." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) |
"The film shares many qualities with its rambling and at times honestly endearing characters: it's sloppy, decent-hearted and most often embarrassing.
" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Lucky You (2007) |
"Meandering and endearing, Curtis Hanson's loosey-goosey Las Vegas reworking of Sam Peckinpah's Junior Bonner deserved a better deal." |
Sean Burns |
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