Tomato 3/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"A gritty slice of real life, relentlessly in focus, though always humane." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
La Dolce Vita (1960) |
"Marcello's journey is a string of remarkable vignettes that delivers fashion and sociology in equal measure." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"This 140-minute biopic feels more like an ordeal than a celebration." |
Michael Booth |
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Labyrinth (1986) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"It may be years before any writer makes an on-screen firefighter into a loser, let alone a villain. In the meantime, Ladder 49 will stoke the embers on all of our firefighter daydreams." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"With the bell-jar atmosphere familiar to certain period pieces, it suggest we are not the only nation with tired, go-to genres." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"M. Night Shyamalan doesn't have an ego problem. He's just a humble screenwriter and director who makes himself a star of his own movie -- as a character who is a writer, whose words will save the world from despair and destruction." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"Hanks appears to be having the time of his life." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"The Lake House swamps its heart-aimed ambitions with too many head- scratching moments." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"Lakeview Terrace's resistance to being one thing suggests the time has come when a movie featuring an interracial couple can no longer be merely about race and racism." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"What next: The Banana Splits movie?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Lantana (2001) |
"Lantana is so rich in secondary characters and performances it's hard to mention them all. But you will certainly appreciate them." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"Jolie may be defining herself in a franchise whose memory will be hard to erase later in her career, but she does it with the style of a legend." |
Michael Booth |
Splat |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"It's yet another movie where you frequently have no idea what's going on or why." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"If Castle isn't offensive, it is deeply stupid." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Last Days (2005) |
"In putting the onus for meaning on viewers, Van Sant has pinned the film's success to our subjectivity. It might not guarantee fondness. Yet what an extraordinary collaboration it makes." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"For a movie about overcoming fear and living out loud, Last Holiday's too-tidy conclusion isn't a sign of hope so much as a lack of nerve." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"Unlike the slew of Michael Bay- produced slasher remakes, this is not an idea-free flick. And Craven (shepherding producer on this remake) believes in character. More, he believes, in engaging what the word "horror" means." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"By the end of this remarkable, uneven film, we believe that through Whitaker we have come to understand the very nature of power and corruption." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"For all the hurting and hollering, The Last Kiss rarely pushes its emotions from scripted to authentic." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Life in the Universe (2004) |
"An absorbing series of intricately planned shots that play like installation art at a modern museum." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"Science in the service of wonder can save a life and a world. And this pleasing, teasing, intelligent family flick can vastly improve a day." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Last Resort (2001) |
"Has a broodingly beautiful aesthetic sensibility." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Nearly all of The Last Samurai's deficiencies spring from the screenplay... As respectful as it is about the similarities of different cultures, it also doesn't quite elude an aura of noble otherness." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Last Sin Eater (2007) |
"The film's rhythm drags. And [director] Landon uses the 'when in doubt, pump up the score' method for signaling Cadi's emotions." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 4/4 |
Late Marriage (2001) |
"Unfolds in a low-key, organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"Never reaches the bar it sets for itself." |
Vic Vogler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"Watching Moore and Brosnan do this modernized yet willfully dated dance is honeyed entertainment." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Layer Cake (2005) |
"May be a worthy successor to a busy genre, but it is not an inventive inheritor." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"This film by Stephen Norrington doesn't soar nearly enough above ordinary." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2005) |
"It's a curious movie, in the best sense, acknowledging that everybody is obsessed with something, then finding out why this particular group of people is obsessed with this particular pastime." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"Witherspoon is never less than a pleasure, and one is thankful for her every close-up." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) |
"The first Reese Witherspoon vehicle was a surprise smash hit, and the second is a surprisingly smashing train wreck." |
Michael Booth |
Splat |
The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999) |
"The principal characters, forced in the bright light of the fairway to work not just as allegory but as viable, identifiable human beings, become ludicrous." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) |
"The movie is crammed with Tim Burton-style desolation, foreboding and technological anachronism." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"Like the best vampire sagas, the film is rife with aching melancholy and existential crises. Its haunting beauty isn't marred, but complemented by strong, disquieting images." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
"Letters is a work of whetted craft and judgment, tempered by Eastwood's years of life, moviemaking and the potent tango of the two. It is the work of a mature filmmaker willing to entertain the true power of the cinema." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Levity (2003) |
"Slow and satisfying." |
Vic Vogler |
Splat 2/4 |
The Libertine (2005) |
"Rochester may have been a cultural visionary, but the movie reduces this notion to a parable of bad-boy celebrity hitched to an uninteresting love story." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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Life (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato |
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) |
"At times arrogant, furious, ridiculous and mopey, in the end, Steve Zissou carries The Life Aquatic with an understated grace." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Life as a House (2001) |
"House may suffer from excessive and unnecessary ornamentation, but its foundation -- Kline's performance -- is solid and strong." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
Life or Something Like It (2002) |
"Its disparate elements never add up to approximating real life." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"Let its craft wash over you. Go with its flow." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
A Lion in the House (2006) |
"How often do life's epic dimensions really get their due in documentary, let alone feature film?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"Lions for Lambs is a civics lesson, necessary to be sure, but leaving us drained of resolve, wading in the morass it hoped to pull us out of." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
The Little Bear Movie (2001) |
"The Little Bear Movie got us through some long snowy afternoons, and some late nights with ear infections. That's more than enough to earn this parent's gratitude." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Little Black Book (2004) |
"Raises the question: When does a movie go from being an homage to being a parasite?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) |
"A hard-to-resist, often riotous comedy." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Little Nicky (2000) |
"So aggressively juvenile -- make that infantile -- that I feel I should be scrawling this review in crayon." |
Steven Rosen |
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