Tomato 3/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"Everything about L'Enfant feels devastatingly real." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 3/4 |
L'Iceberg (2005) |
"'Deadpan' doesn't begin to describe the tongue-in-cheek mix of gravity and cool detachment in which L'Iceberg's slapstick nonsense thrives." |
Tom Keogh |
Tomato |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"A wonderfully acted film and a courageous one." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato |
La Buche (2000) |
"Sparklingly acted by a fine ensemble cast." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 4/4 |
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) |
"Captures the fleeting beauty of ballet in dozens of miniature portraits, each quietly soaring. This movie just goes up there and stays there, and it's magical." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 2.5/4 |
La France (2007) |
"You might want to file this one under Novelties and Cult Items, Not Completely Baked." |
John Hartl |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Ley De Herodes (2000) |
"Accomplished and delightfully subversive." |
Ted Fry |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Moustache (2005) |
"A profound allegory about the tension between isolation and intimacy." |
Tom Keogh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"This kind of heightened drama might not work in most movies, but it suits its larger-than-life subject: Dahan's La Vie is the movie equivalent of a torch song." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 2/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"An action drama/weepie that's so busy telling us that its characters are heroes, it forgets that they should be people first." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Dance has had the great good fortune to cast two legendary British actresses, and thus Ladies in Lavender gets elevated to the rare-treat category." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"A dumb movie." |
Erik Lundegaard |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"A plodding look at the French Revolution through the eyes of aristocrats." |
Eli Sanders |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"Like a sprawling afternoon spent reading Lawrence, Ferran's film is a welcome and often enthralling escape -- for Connie, and for us." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 2/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"None of this is fun to report from a critic's perspective. I'm a Shyamalan fan who greatly admires what he's trying to do, but Shyamalan's desperate desire to be the next Steven Spielberg has grown painful to witness." |
Jeff Shannon |
Splat 2/4 |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"Apart from Park's impressive but ultimately hollow style (his images are impeccably composed and visually inventive), Lady Vengeance is still an exercise in wretched excess (though less extreme than its predecessors)." |
Jeff Shannon |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"Playing is the operative word since the visual whimsy gets equal billing with a mordant wit that's too much fun to be easily summed up as mere black comedy." |
Ted Fry |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lagaan (2001) |
"A great big Bollywood musical, complete with song and dance and doomed love triangles and elegantly photographed men playing cricket. And it's terrific fun, in a way that only great big musical fantasies can be." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"A pretty soap bubble of a movie. It's lovely to look at and calming to watch, but don't try to touch it — it just might pop and vanish, right there in your hand." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"It's the arguments on both sides that make this long, gripping film such a vital contribution to the national conversation about abortion." |
John Hartl |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lake Tahoe (2009) |
"Fortunately, Eimbcke's laconic if fanciful storytelling strengths ring more true than his somewhat artificial and hackneyed visual style, which includes a penchant for lengthy wide-angle shots that make the world look like a feverishly alien place." |
Tom Keogh |
Tomato |
Lakeboat (2001) |
"As drama, it's not much; as a meditation on language and storytelling, it's a treat." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 2/4 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"A racial thriller that may be the feel-bad movie of the summer." |
Mark Rahner |
Tomato 3/4 |
Land of Plenty (2004) |
"It casts a spell of compassionate humanity with a gently healing effect." |
Jeff Shannon |
Splat 2/4 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"It's hard to say what audience Silberling had in mind. For the kids, there's a steady parade of dinosaurs, time-travel adventures and absent-minded- professor jokes. But there are no kids to identify with." |
John Hartl |
Tomato |
Lantana (2001) |
"The emotional experience of "Lantana" is heightened by its marvelous ensemble cast, all of whom etch a character in relatively brief screen time." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"More like a Cradle of Tedium, and despite the high-decibel sound and fury, you may wish you had brought a pillow." |
Mary Brennan |
Splat |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"So deep was the concern that Jolie fully realize the role of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider that the story got lost in the jungle." |
Melanie McFarland |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"Almost impossibly sweet, a tale of love and kindness that's funny without being snarky." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lassie (2006) |
"This remake of the 1943 classic Lassie Come Home is quite an accomplishment, bringing together a top-notch British director, a very nice cast , gorgeous Scottish scenery and all the renowned virtues of the world's most famous collie." |
Tom Keogh |
Splat |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"The Last Castle, while engrossing in parts, might have benefited from more pre-shooting talk about what makes an intriguing character -- and what makes a star performance." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 2/4 |
Last Days (2005) |
"The story, told with little dialogue or action, feels like an outline awaiting shading and detail." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 2.5/5 |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"In its corny, cartoonish way, it even suggests a generosity of spirit that's faithful to the 1950 original." |
John Hartl |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"First-time director Dennis Iliadis spices up the visual style with unusual camera and cutting choices that liven the tempo beyond typical horror-movie cliché. Time will tell whether or not this Last House launches his career." |
Ted Fry |
Splat 1/4 |
The Last International Playboy (2009) |
"They're deeply uninteresting people, thanks to a trite and far-fetched script. There's very little the actors can do to make them credible." |
John Hartl |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"Macdonald has delivered a masterful tragedy, told in his characters' wary eyes." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last Kiss (2002) |
"The Last Kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact." |
John Hartl |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"... The Last Kiss takes a serious look at what's too often described glibly as early midlife crisis, and it shows some courage in not tying up its stories neatly at the end." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Last Life in the Universe (2004) |
"It's an offbeat romance that defies easy labeling, recommendable as a film buff's pleasure and a semi-audacious art-house curio." |
Jeff Shannon |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"Shaye gives the film a message well worth hearing: Today's kids, constantly distracted by electronic devices, don't spend enough time connecting with each other and with their families. But this idea is buried among too many talky scenes with the adults." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Mistress (2008) |
"[Breillat's] latest and possibly most entertaining exercise in erotica." |
John Hartl |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Last Orders (2002) |
"The splendid ensemble cast inhabits these unglamorous roles with quiet gusto." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato |
Last Resort (2001) |
"Obliquely affecting." |
John Hartl |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"As movie-star vehicles go, Last Samurai is a fine, well-crafted example." |
Moira MacDonald |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Shot (2004) |
"It's all very loose and, while occasionally diverting, doesn't really add up to anything." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Sin Eater (2007) |
"The Last Sin Eater is close to nature and boasts many of the elements we expect from solid family entertainment, albeit with tragic overtones that keep the story grounded in a rich emotional context." |
Jeff Shannon |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Late Bloomer (2008) |
"Considering its five-year production history, Late Bloomer is a regrettably scattershot affair." |
Jeff Shannon |
Tomato 3/4 |
Late Marriage (2001) |
"It feels like a devastatingly honest portrait of how old-world family loyalties are both a haven and a prison -- for two generations." |
Misha Berson |
Splat 2/4 |
Latter Days (2004) |
"It's more melodrama than drama or love story, and Cox, who wrote Sweet Home Alabama, seems to have never met a stereotype he didn't like." |
Moira MacDonald |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"It's a pleasant, good-natured film that's easy to enjoy." |
Moira MacDonald |
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