Tomato |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"Stop reading. Put this review on hold until after you've seen L.A. Confidential." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"Lady in the Water marks M. Night Shyamalan's official leap off the deep end. Not everyone agrees on Shyamalan's talent as a filmmaker, but few, up till now, have questioned his sanity." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"The Ladykillers is small and compact -- it doesn't kill, it's just a doodle -- but it's a very pleasant cartoon for grown-ups. It's some sweet fodder." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"Land of the Lost is an enjoyable regression to Saturday mornings gone by, as junky and sweet as a strawberry Pop-Tart." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"[Jolie's] glittering, libidinous impudence gives this packaged piece of corporate schlock a strange integrity -- perhaps even a soul." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"The movie is convinced that its man-loves-mannequin premise is uplifting, when actually it's just kinda gross." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Lassie (2006) |
"It's such a relief to settle into a film that lets dogs be dogs, children be children, and old-fashioned movies be old-fashioned movies." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Last Days (2005) |
"Last Days is an extraordinarily potent brew." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"The Last King of Scotland is wrenching to sit through, but in the end, it doesn't leave you with quite enough to think about." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Lawless Heart (2002) |
"An impishly funny, melancholy, absolutely delightful English ensemble drama." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) |
"I won't give away the plot twist, except to say that the final minute of the movie is one of the most bleak, and moving, endings I've seen in years." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2005) |
"You're left with a haunting vision -- of a go-for-it, romantic, fame-and-fortune template featuring quasi-athletes who can't seem to climb out of the lower middle class." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Leatherheads (2008) |
"Why does the whole thing feel sloggier than the climactic game, a near-scoreless battle waged in a lake of mud?" |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"This might not work with anyone but Reese Witherspoon." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Legend of Zorro (2005) |
"Zorro is misnamed, since it's less about the legend than what happens when the legend goes home and gets yelled at by his wife." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) |
"Heinrichs helps take your mind off the slack direction and the letdown of a climax, which ought to make the kiddies hurl Gummi Bears at the screen." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) |
"Why is it that so many people think this filmmaker is the voice of their generation? Is their generation that vacuous?" |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Life Is Beautiful (1998) |
"Benigni's movie made me want to throw up." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Life of David Gale (2003) |
"It would take an intellect far superior to mine to explain the rationale -- or, for that matter, the release -- of David Gale." |
David Edelstein |
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Limbo (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"Lions for Lambs appears to have been created by someone who's never seen one of these newfangled contraptions called 'movies,' or for that matter, witnessed that phenomenon known as 'speech.'" |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling (2004) |
"What a gutsy, sad, seize-the-day, glorious life it was for the women warriors of Lipstick & Dynamite." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Little Children (2006) |
"Field and Perrotta share a real affection for even their most thwarted and self-deluded characters." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) |
"Little Miss Sunshine has not a hint of exploitation about it, and it's sentimental only in the best sense of the word. Like its heroine Olive Hoover, it wears its heart on its sleeve and assumes the best about everyone." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Lives of Others (2006) |
"The Lives of Others is the best surveillance movie since The Conversation." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) |
"Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is the laborious title of an even more laborious Cockney action movie." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Longest Yard (2005) |
"What was already a raucous put-on, a goof on Aldrich's brutal action movies, is now a hyperbolic, gross-out cartoon, with a cast of enormous ex-football stars only adding to the air of facetiousness." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006) |
"All this, to spoof a petty little Hollywood ego? Too inside." |
Stephen Metcalf |
Tomato |
Looney Tunes - Back in Action (2003) |
"A nutty, zany, wacky, unruly, spastically hilarious hodgepodge that hits at least twice as often as it misses." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings (1978) |
"A showcase for inspired imagery and sheer strangeness, a near-miss magnum opus from another era, before the cult of Tolkien went Hollywood." |
Glenn Gaslin |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"I left exhausted, happy, intoxicated." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
"This is the best of the three Rings movies -- more than that, it makes the others look even better." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
"The movie is a monument to a talented fan-boy's passion: You emerge into the light with your heart pounding, ears ringing, head swimming, and gasp, 'That's entertainment!'" |
David Edelstein |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
James Surowiecki |
Tomato |
Lorna's Silence (2009) |
"That's as much as you should know before going into Lorna's Silence, which combines Bressonian aesthetic rigor with Hitchcockian suspense." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Lost in La Mancha (2003) |
"A fascinating glimpse at the fragile ecosystem of a movie shoot, but I'm bound to say that I don't share its view of Gilliam." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Lost in Translation (2003) |
"An entrancing mood piece." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Love Actually (2003) |
"It's terrific fun for an hour, but by the last of its 129 minutes you might find yourself going into insulin shock." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Love Guru (2008) |
"This tale of a guru who brings joy to all who meet him is the most joy-draining 88 minutes I've ever spent outside a hospital waiting room." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"Scene by scene, the movie alternates between prurient violence and sentimental uplift." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Lust, Caution (2007) |
"Both a cannily constructed spy thriller and a grim kind of love story." |
Dana Stevens |
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