Tomato B+ |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"What makes L.I.E an especially arresting indie film is that it keeps pulling the rug out from under you in terms of where it's heading." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato 5/5 |
La Dolce Vita (1960) |
"Fellini's best film, in which the fragility of the characters is not overwhelmed by the director's decadent indulgences." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C- |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"Cultivated? Sure it is. Respectable? You bet. And now the honest part. Terminally dull? Uh huh." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B- |
Lake Placid (1999) |
"Briskly paced and snappily written, it's the only movie currently in theaters that is completely free of pretensions." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat F |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat F |
The Last Castle (2001) |
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Joe McGovern |
Splat |
The Last Letter (2003) |
"The film offers little more than what it presents to you and makes you wonder if seeing this onstage wouldn't possibly be more compelling than fancily designed as a film" |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B+ |
Last Night (1998) |
"Writer/Director Don McKellar has taken the huge concept of the apocalypse and has spun a story built on subtlety around it." |
Rob Morlino |
Splat |
Last Orders (2002) |
"You’d think a movie with Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, Helen Mirren and Tom Courtenay couldn’t be all bad, but you’d be wrong." |
Jason Clark |
Splat D+ |
Last Orders (2002) |
"Just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato B- |
Last Resort (2001) |
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Jason Clark |
Tomato A |
The Last Waltz (1978) |
"Not just perhaps the greatest concert film ever made, but one of the best films ever made, period." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato 4/5 |
Laura (1944) |
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Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C+ |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"Witherspoon keeps this movie afloat, because, after all, she is legally blonde. Too bad the rest of the movie is illegally stupid." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"Traffics heavily in disgustingly cute stupidity and crude cultural stereotypes." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat B- |
The Legend of 1900 (1998) |
"Deserves consideration as one of the best bad movies (or perhaps one of the worst good movies) ever produced." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C+ |
The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999) |
"The film has no thematic or dramatic weight to justify the effort." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato A |
The Legend of Drunken Master (1994) |
"Beats Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at its own game of high-flying huzzah, and with relative ease." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat 1/5 |
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1973) |
"Not nearly as exciting or as interesting as the premise would have you believe." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
Les Destinees (2002) |
"Assayas's modern approach to historic material breathes some life back into the period drama." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C- |
Liam (2001) |
"A dreary period drama in the Angela's Ashes school of misery." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B+ |
Liberty Heights (1999) |
"Both epic and intimate, taking on a large cast of characters while focusing quietly on the details of their lives." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat short |
Life (1999) |
"Face it folks: Eddie Murphy just ain't funny anymore." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C |
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999) |
"Were Jews the only fans of Greenberg? I doubt it, though the film makes no indication otherwise." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato short |
Life as a House (2001) |
"Achieves an intimacy rarely seen in a star-laden Hollywood drama." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B- |
Life as a House (2001) |
"Pure Hollywood, but as such it aspires to cover considerably more honest emotional territory than the usual failed attempt." |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Lighthorsemen (1988) |
"A solid war film that builds to a riveting climax." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C+ |
Lilo & Stitch (2002) |
"The greatest myth on display here is the belief that ostensible impoliteness somehow equals a break from the norm." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat C |
Limbo (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Nemetz |
Tomato short |
The Limey (1999) |
"It'll serve as perhaps the final reminder of what was once [Soderbergh's] great career." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B- |
The Limey (1999) |
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Joe McGovern |
Splat C- |
Little Nicky (2000) |
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Joe McGovern |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lola (1961) |
"An early Demy prize, lighting the way to his masterpiece The Young Girls of Rochefort." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B+ |
Long Night's Journey into Day (1999) |
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Jason Clark |
Splat |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"For all of its good choices, there’s something deeply wanting about Jackson’s vision" |
Jason Clark |
Tomato A- |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
"A truly fine film, elegant in its way and exciting without giving in to mindlessness." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat D- |
Loser (2000) |
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Joe McGovern |
Splat F |
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999) |
"A turgid, rotten bore that pretty much signals the death of "art" cinema as we know it." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
Lost and Delirious (2001) |
"Perabo's performance is an intriguing high-wire trick in itself." |
Jason Clark |
Splat F |
Love & Sex (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jason Clark |
Splat |
Love Liza (2002) |
"It apparently took the filmmakers nearly five years to make this film, and you wonder why anyone would want it in the first place" |
Jason Clark |
Tomato short |
Love's Labour's Lost (2000) |
"The most exultant epiphany of romantic celebration I've seen in a film--ever." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B- |
Love's Labour's Lost (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Vasquez |
Tomato B |
Lovely & Amazing (2002) |
"Movies like Lovely & Amazing are valuable because they're rare, allowing interesting scenarios for actresses that are good looking but not glamorous, sensitive but not demure." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat short |
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1999) |
"It's hard not to find the whole thing pretentious and obnoxious." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat D- |
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) |
"What destroys the film is the way it can't possibly come close to justifying its characters' choices, or its own." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
The Low Down (2001) |
"Contains twice the number of wry and unexpectedly human moments than any other film currently on display." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat short |
Lucky Numbers (1999) |
"About as lucky as a broken mirror." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B- |
Lucky Numbers (1999) |
"Inconsequential, inoffensive, and even with some genuinely weird and funny moments courtesy of a spirited supporting cast." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat F |
Lumumba (2001) |
"The term for this type of film is 'self-important.'" |
Jason Clark |
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