Tomato 4/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"This is a movie about the kind of everyday miracle we all need to believe can happen -- how the tiniest glimmer of human connection can lead the most miserable specimen out of darkness." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
La Mentale: The Code (2004) |
"A routine gangster picture with a lot of internecine turf wars and a rush of angry dialogue being spat about, accompanied by English subtitles." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
La Moustache (2005) |
"La Moustache dissolves into a meandering annoyance that takes us from Paris to Hong Kong and back again." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"It's the role of an actress' lifetime, and Marion Cotillard pretty much knocks it out of the park." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato |
Labor Day (2009) |
"Director Glenn Silber's look at how window washers, public employees, janitors and other working men and women played a role in 2008's political events is heartening, and yet, a year after being filmed, unintentionally aggravating." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"A profile in everyday courage, the common denominator of men who fight fires for a living, choosing to go into buildings that other people are trying to get out of." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Ultimately, Dance is unable to connect the many threads of his rather flimsy script, leading to an abrupt and somewhat unsatisfying conclusion." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"It captures the animal attraction we call lust and carefully tracks its evolution to true love. For all its faults, this beautifully shot, sexually graphic film is a gem." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Lady In Question is Charles Busch (2006) |
"Performer, performance artist, playwright and all-around charmer, Busch is someone it's hard to get enough of." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"The story is so convoluted and ultimately preposterous that you're almost embarrassed by the earnestness of the actors trying to carry it off." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"The last of director Park Chanwook's revenge trilogy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is another astonishing achievement of slasher-style justice, moral tussles, and eye-candy design ..." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"[The Coen brothers have] made a broad comedy out of a black comedy and completely lost its charm in the process." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
Lagerfeld Confidential (2007) |
"I learned a lot about Lagerfeld but nothing I felt an urgent need to know." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1/4 |
Lake City (2008) |
"Only natural spitfire Spacek, as the pickup-driving mom of the land, feels fresh." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"The time-warp romantic fantasy The Lake House is a puzzle that is maddeningly obtuse, emotionally overstretched and virtually absent a sense of interior logic." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/5 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"Terrace pretends to be about the persecution of a mixed-race couple when really it's about how anyone might react living next door to the shark from Jaws." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/4 |
Land of Plenty (2004) |
"Wenders handles America's physical landscape with characteristic clarity. But he never gets a handle on the trickier political terrain and so, like Uncle Paul, ends up chasing too many roads to nowhere." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/5 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"This Land exists at the bottom of the pop-cultural barrel." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"How could something so expensive, so loud and so frenetic simultaneously be so mindnumbingly boring?" |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) |
"The job involves an upcoming cooking contest, a sleazy mayor, a corrupt restaurateur and a supporting cast of characters so ugly, stupid and hygienically revolting that they make Larry seem almost tolerable." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"Working with a doll can't be easy, but Gosling actually makes it feel emotionally real." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lassie (2006) |
"Charles Sturridge's charming adaptation of Eric Knight's classic book Lassie Come-Home will thrill any adult who can't face another insipid children's movie about talking animals. Oh, and the kids will love it, too." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/5 |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"This mundane romantic comedy is notable for one reason only: its leading couple." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Days (2005) |
"Weird, sad and dreamy." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"The Queen never lets us down." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 0/5 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"Last House on the Left is so stomach-churningly anti-human it makes you wonder why Goldwyn...and Potter signed on." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"Whitaker's performance is absolutely spellbinding -- and should land him his first Oscar nomination." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"... paints itself into a corner from which it cannot escape." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1/4 |
The Last Legion (2007) |
"I have too much respect for Kingsley and Firth to believe they did this for anything other than the money, and to their credit, they give their best efforts." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Life in the Universe (2004) |
"The mildly surreal drama doesn't always make sense, but it sure does look great." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"You'd be far better off tracking down the original tale than trying to untangle Bob Shaye's choppy adaptation." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Last Mistress (2008) |
"Though Argento and Aattou lack the searing chemistry needed, the social politics are consistently intriguing, and everything -- not to mention everyone -looks absolutely stunning." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Cruise isn't horribly miscast, a la Tony Curtis in The Son of Ali Baba or John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror, but he doesn't miss by far." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Shot (2004) |
"There's no affection in this mean-spirited sendup of 'the business' and nothing to mitigate its sour taste." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Last Station (2009) |
"Though all the actors try to expand their underwritten roles, Mirren is most successful." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Time (2006) |
"Feels like a script that was written backwards, as if the twist ending occurred to [writer-director] Caleo first and he then filled out a story to get to it. Fair enough, except getting there in this case is just no fun." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Last Winter (2007) |
"Larry Fessenden has fashioned a different kind of horror movie here, one that moves at glacial speed, offers few scares and provides the viewer virtually no satisfaction." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Laura Smiles (2007) |
"It's an interesting profile in self-destruction until the script becomes unhinged itself and has Laura doing things that are not so much outrageous as hilariously stupid." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"Law Abiding Citizen is such a lazy action-drama underachiever, it seems unfair to target stars Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler for bringing their C game." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/4 |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"More chemistry between the leads would have helped." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Layer Cake (2005) |
"Layer Cake is laced with flashbacks and stylistic tics, but it never loses its forward momentum, and to the last shot, it avoids predictability." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) |
"The relationship between an enthusiastic young Paris homicide detective and his middle-age female supervisor is as important as the murders they are trying to solve in Xavier Beauvois' taut police procedural." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"In a summer of big-budget sequels, prequels, remakes and homages, no film is more ambitiously derivative -- or dramatically unsatisfying -- than Stephen Norrington's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2005) |
"If you've ever struggled to watch bowling on TV, you'll appreciate Browne's gifts when the film ends and you realize -- no kidding -- you can't wait to see these guys compete again." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Leatherheads (2008) |
"It's easy to see what Clooney's going for, but hard to understand the choices he makes." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) |
"It's like being strapped down and forced to read back issues of Lucky magazine." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
Legend of Suriyothai (2003) |
"Yukol has spread a huge canvas, gloriously costumed and photographed, but the staging and acting are often awkward and the saga is simply too dense for good drama." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
The Legend of Zorro (2005) |
"More a parody than a sequel, Martin Campbell's The Legend of Zorro reunites the director with the stars of 1998's The Mask of Zorro for two hours of ludicrous action, forced humor and self-conscious romance." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lemming (2006) |
"Imagine a movie that combines the suspense of Hitchcock with the inscrutable sexuality of David Lynch's films and you're looking at French director Dominik Moll's Lemming." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006) |
"Offering both too little material and too much, the movie leaves us in the bizarre position of understanding its subject no better by the end than we did at the beginning." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
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