Splat 2/4 |
L'Ennui (1998) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"Brilliant, complex, cinematic noir-inspired cop drama L.A. Confidential an instant classic." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2.5/4 |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"I kept wondering why I was watching these people, and an answer was never forthcoming." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/5 |
La Buche (2000) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 1/5 |
Labyrinth (1986) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"...freshness and originality weren't the highest priority for this firefighter drama focused on a post-9/11 brand of sacrificial All-American heroism." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"This slight and uneven flick isn't the kind of thing you want to drop $8 on at the multiplex, but more an inspiration rental for six months from now when it's on the new releases shelf at your local video store." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"The film has almost nothing much to offer a viewer who doesn't already have a historian's keen interest in the minutiae of 1792 Paris politics." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"Only lip service is paid to the heist, as the Coen Brothers are far more interested in milking the foibles and idiosyncrasies of their cast of lowbrow clowns." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 4/4 |
Lagaan (2001) |
"I have a new favorite musical -- and I'm not even a fan of the genre" |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 7/10 |
Lake Placid (1999) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Land Girls (1998) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lantana (2001) |
"Directed...with a deft, perceptive eye and ear for the delicate verbal and emotional intercourse of frayed human relationships." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"Director Jan De Bont barely inspires enough adrenaline-flick flash to hold anyone’s interest — and it doesn't help that he seems overly enamored of slow motion..." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"Movies like Tomb Raider are designed only to part fools from their money." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/5 |
The Last Boy Scout (1991) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"Has a certain popcorn-picture kind of flag-waving pride about it that is enormously satisfying and oddly apropos for this particular moment in history." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
Last Dance (1996) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Days of Disco (1998) |
"To his fans (color me guilty), Stillman is like a sardonic Anton Checkov, a man to whom dialogue and repressed emotion are everything." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Last Emperor (1987) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
Last Man Standing (1996) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 8/10 |
Last Night (1998) |
"I wasn't sure if I liked Last Night until about an hour after I left the theater and realized I was having a hard time escaping the psychological wake of this allegory about the end of the world." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 1/4 |
Last of the Dogmen (1995) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Orders (2002) |
"Exactly the kind of movie adults are wishing for when they complain nobody makes movies for adults anymore." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Resort (2001) |
"A visceral, intimate drama." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Perhaps the title Dances with Samurai was already taken..." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Last Supper (1995) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 5/5 |
Laura (1944) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"...well-acted but unadventurous in its allegorical depiction of temptation and personal growth." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"Shortchanges the courtroom scenes, where the sparks would really fly in a pluckier script..." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Layer Cake (2005) |
"A stylish, dynamic thicket of thorny underworld twists and deceptions." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"Summer-movie-ized for the Cliff's Notes set, predictably packed with flash and completely devoid of life." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 4/5 |
A League of Their Own (1992) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"A paint-by-numbers big screen sitcom." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) |
"Within her last three movies, Witherspoon's talent has withered into a sprightly sleepwalk of romantic comedy clichés and bumper-sticker-deep believe-in-yourself messages." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999) |
"A Hallmark card kind of beauty and poetry, printed on flimsy paperboard and worth $2.50 at most." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Legend of Drunken Master (1994) |
"Features what are arguably the fastest, most furious and elaborate -- and the most entertaining -- fight sequences ever filmed." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) |
"Jim Carrey makes a four-course meal of the Tim-Burtonesque surreal scenery, completely overshadowing the story." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Les Miserables (1998) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 1/4 |
Let's Talk About Sex (1998) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/5 |
Lethal Weapon (1987) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2/4 |
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) |
"The ultimate example of a paycheck movie." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Liam (2001) |
"Frears is a director who seems able to spin gold in any genre...but his connection to "Liam" feels personal, as if he poured his heart into every frame." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Liar Liar (1997) |
"Unevenly acted, hatched from a one joke premise and trading precariously on a single performance, Liar Liar shouldn't be as funny as it is." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Liberty Heights (1999) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Life (1999) |
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Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) |
"The movie's driving force is Anderson's signature sense of humor. The underlying (and unspoken) joke of this oddball farce is that it is transparently fake." |
Rob Blackwelder |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Life as a House (2001) |
"while Life as a House is nothing if not conventional, it never stoops to being maudlin or weepy like Hollywood terminal illness movies are wont to be." |
Rob Blackwelder |