Tomato 5/5 |
L'Age D'Or (1930) |
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Tomato 5/5 |
L'Argent (1983) |
"A work of true cinematic genius that stands head and shoulders above most other pictures and seems to defy critical judgment." |
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Tomato 5/5 |
L'Atalante (1934) |
"Brilliantly idiosyncratic and insightful, the warmest film of this great director's career." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
L'Avventura (1960) |
"One of Antonioni's finest films, and a landmark in the devlopment of cinematic narrative." |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin (2003) |
"Enlightening documentary." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"Throughout this raw, often brilliant drama, the Dardennes refuse to judge these deeply flawed characters." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
L'Iceberg (2005) |
"The film's deliberate color palette and tightly choreographed, perfectly timed sequences recall Jacques Tati. But there's an irreverent, off-center humor here that's distinctly their own." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"Spacey's Vincennes is the standout in a just about flawless ensemble, and director Curtis Hanson keeps the hugely complicated story zooming along the boulevard of broken dreams without losing sight of the details that make the trip worthwhile." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
L.A. Story (1991) |
"Unlike Woody Allen's New York City, which becomes a staging area for character angst and transformation, Martin's L.A. stifles the characters, and neither they, screenwriter Martin or director Jackson seem to be aware of it." |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
L.A. Twister (2004) |
"Silly, good-natured and full of unlikely moves." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Belle Noiseuse (1991) |
"Like all great works of art, the film has a purity of line and structure as it plays out its theme." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Bête Humaine (1938) |
"Features one of Jean Gabin's greatest performances -- one with even more force than the locomotive he powers." |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
La Bonne Anne (1973) |
"An entertaining but vacuous effort from Claude Lelouch." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
La Collectionneuse (1971) |
"Almendros captures the beauty of Politoff and the scenery with an acute sense of detail." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Dolce Vita (1960) |
"After what we've seen of decadence during the past three decades or so, La Dolce Vita now seems tame, but people wasting time in nightclubs, dancing in the fountains of Rome, and just generally hanging out seemed a bit of a shock in 1960." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
La Guerre Est Finie (1966) |
"Not Resnais' greatest effort, but a provocative portrait of political rebels and a challenging anti-war film just the same." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Jetée (1962) |
"A remarkable and unique experimental short that consists solely of still frames, narration, music and sound effects as it relates an apocalyptic tale of memory and time-travel." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Marseillaise (1937) |
"Released on the heels of the brilliant Grand Illusion, its reception suffered from the belief that a director can't make two masterpieces in a row." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
La Mentale: The Code (2004) |
"Unpredictable deviations from the formula ... keep the film interesting." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Moustache (2005) |
"[Director] Carrere re-creates the insane mind through his camera, and diffuses his point about subjective experience by inadvertently raising questions about truth and the movies." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
La Promesse (1996) |
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Tomato 5/5 |
La Ronde (1950) |
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Tomato 5/5 |
La Strada (1954) |
"One of the most powerful of Fellini's films." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
La Tropical (2006) |
"Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Turnley's first feature, photographed in shimmering black and white, is a portrait of the Havana dance hall La Tropical, but is first and foremost a celebration of Cuban dance and music." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"Cotillard's riveting performance, distinctive gestures and defiantly wounded body language without ever descending into mere impersonation. It's sometimes wrenching to watch, but it's too gripping to turn away from." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
La Vie Promise |
"This is a rare road picture that leaves us knowing less about our traveling companions than we did when the journey started; Dahan and screenwriter Agnes Fustier-Dahan reduce their characters to pasteboard symbols, colored by unexplained quirks." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"Though handsomely mounted and efficiently staged, this mass of firefighter cliches swings wildly between heartstring-tugging melodrama, testosterone-fueled action and buddy comedy, weighed down by too many predictable twists and storytelling contrivances." |
Angel Cohn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Its appeal lies in the powerhouse performances delivered by Dench and Smith, who without fireworks or showboating reveal the vivid, complex inner lives of women who appear superficially dull and ordinary." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"As for the inevitable romance between the seemingly sensible Julie and the wispy, lisping Leon, it's sort of like watching her fall for the gay best friend from a whole other movie." |
Frank Lovece |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladies of the Bois de Bologne (1944) |
"The performances by both Casares and Labourdette were strikingly captivating and were enough in themselves to carry the film." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Il Ladro di bambini (1992) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007) |
"This good-natured genre piece gets the job done while sneaking in a couple of pointed observations about contemporary Latino immigrant life." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"Fascinating melding of celluloid and digital video." |
Frank Lovece |
Tomato 4/4 |
Lady and the Tramp (1955) |
"[It made] more money than any other film from the 1950s except The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur." |
Michael Scheinfeld |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"Nicely shot with a minimum of lasciviousness." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Lady Eve (1941) |
"Sturges's chic, sly little masterpiece of comic seduction." |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Lady from Shanghai (1948) |
"An uneven film, perhaps, but one which only seems to improve with age." |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Lady In Question is Charles Busch (2006) |
"Catania and Ignacio's film works best on the level of straightforward biography told through the reminiscences of friends, family, members of Busch's Lost-in-Limbo theatrical troupe and, best of all, Busch himself." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"The result is a soggy swamp of nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyahing, its only grace notes are Giamatti's fine, nuanced performance as Heep and Christopher Doyle's handsome cinematography." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Lady in White (1988) |
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Splat 3/4 |
Lady L (1965) |
"This is one of those cute little films made by a cute little cadre of actors with nothing much else to do." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Sings the Blues (1972) |
"View this film about Billie Holiday as a completely fictional story, and you'll enjoy it far more than you would otherwise." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Snowblood (1973) |
"Blood sprays, limbs fall, bodies are chopped in half -- business as usual in this moderately diverting feudal Japanese revenge story, enlivened by peculiar plot twists and offbeat cinematic flourishes that greatly influenced Quentin Tarantino." |
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Tomato 5/5 |
The Lady Vanishes (1938) |
"This is one of Hitchcock's finest British films, a classic mystery that manages to combine humor with a genuine sense of menace -- not to mention the kinds of characters that everyone dreams of meeting on a Central European train journey." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"It concludes Park's trilogy on a dual note of circular tragedy and fragile hope, while working equally well as an introduction to his universe of retribution and repentance or as a stand-alone thriller with a darkly feminist twist." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ladybug Ladybug (1963) |
"This terrifying account of life under the fear of nuclear war successfully illustrates the harm undue panic and thoughtlessness can provoke." |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Ladykillers (1955) |
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Splat 1.5/5 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"A leaden, tone-deaf remake." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
Lagaan (2001) |
"Unbeatable entertainment from India, and proof that the often derided Bollywood film industry is entirely capable of beating Hollywood at its own game." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"A mess that works on the level of swoony fantasy if you're willing to accept that it makes absolutely no sense, not even within the context of its supernatural premise." |
Maitland McDonagh |
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