Tomato 3.5/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"Focuses on the here and now, the possibility that all human beings have within them compassion, remorse and the capability to sacrifice their own interests for another." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"There's nothing about Cox's poised yet poignant playing that's unconvincing." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
La Ley De Herodes (2000) |
"At times it seems like the director became as self-indulgent as Vargas, repeatedly hitting the same notes of petty debauchery and cruelty well after the easy-to-see points have been made." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1.5/4 |
La Mentale: The Code (2004) |
"Just a bunch of idiots killing other idiots. You've seen it before." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Moustache (2005) |
"Carrere playfully adapts his own novel for his feature debut and makes the interesting decision to show the film's events entirely through Marc's perspective." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"A movie that delves into an icon's life and comes out with something unexpected -- the essence of the woman's art and soul." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"What really would have gotten us more into the experience ... would have been a script that delved deeper beneath the firefighters' helmets." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"A sweet and easy tale, certainly, but is it really the strongest use of a couple of grand Dames?" |
Evan Henerson |
Splat |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"Somewhat more ingratiating than most of these inflated skits have managed to be. That doesn't quite make it a feature film." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"It's ... worth the extra effort to see an artist, still committed to growth in his ninth decade, change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is, quite pointedly, about the peril of such efforts." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"Slow going but builds to some wonderful behavioral and erotic moments." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"The movie makes direct fun of standard Hollywood storytelling conventions, and that's enjoyable. But its utter lack of narrative discipline is just plain amateurish, not subversive." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"Park Chanwook's latest revenge thriller isn't as graphic as earlier ones, but may be even more psychologically violent -- and that's a compliment, as it leads to astounding revelations about guilt and justice." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"It features a turn from the great Tom Hanks that is so thoroughly unlike anything he has ever done ... that it makes the movie required viewing." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lagaan (2001) |
"Provides an entertainingly accessible introduction into the world of the Bollywood musical." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"Why an actress so adept at playing spirited women insists on playing glum, lost souls in movie after movie is beyond understanding." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"Upsetting, engrossing, engaging documentary on abortion." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
Lake Placid (1999) |
"While Lake Placid has some of the oddball wit found in Kelley creations such as Ally McBeal and Picket Fences, the movie feels remarkably undeveloped." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"Lakeview Terrace is a lot of things you never expected it to be. And most of those things are smart, complicated and provocative in the best way." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Lana's Rain (2004) |
"Cliche-riddled, poorly acted and ultimately delirious." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Lantana (2001) |
"A gripping story about real people trying to deal with an assortment of complex, bottled-up emotions." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"Uninvolving and formulaic, spiced up in the stretch with a couple of CGI (and looking every bit like it) Tree Hulk-type monsters." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"The latest and glitziest movie adaptation of a video game suffers from most of the faults its less-endowed predecessors did: two-dimensional characters, confusing action and just plain bad storytelling." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"It's a crazy situation and utterly unbelievable, yet no movie I've seen in ages has inspired me more to want to do the right thing." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Lassie (2006) |
"With its spirited ensemble and literary pedigree, Lassie is worthy entertainment for a new generation of fans." |
Nathaniel Bell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Last Days (2005) |
"It is really boring." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"The real radiance in this sumptuous, likable fantasy-fulfillment comedy comes from Queen Latifah." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"It would all be for naught without Whitaker, who makes Amin fun, funny, vulnerable and poignant while never letting us forget his murderous monomania." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Kiss (2002) |
"The Last Kiss is rich with universal truths about the things men and women do to each other -- and it's probably better, in the long run, to purge them rather than suffer in silence." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"I found it trite, loud and overheated, although not without insight into how that generation behaves." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"A family film combining metaphysical issues, mind-bending special effects and children realizing how dissolute our society is becoming? Sounds like a movie for precocious stoners." |
David Kronke |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Mogul (2005) |
"What we do see in The Last Mogul is certainly worthwhile. But it would be informative mainly to people unfamiliar with Wasserman." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Last Orders (2002) |
"All the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Last Resort (2001) |
"Last Resort ... marks the emergence of a filmmaker who, in cunningly addressing matters of restriction and escape, manages to really capture people with a camera." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Magnificent combat sequences, photographed with spectacular verve and emotional intelligence by Braveheart and The Thin Red Line's John Toll." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Shot (2004) |
"A hit-and-miss broadside at Hollywood and the cockeyed optimists who dream of making it big in movies." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Last Stop For Paul (2008) |
"Many of these are locals whom we see Mandt trying to teach to act in outtakes over the end credits, which are by far the best and funniest things in the movie." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last Winter (2007) |
"Consistently chilling (no, that's not a pun), with crisp, haunting visuals and sound character relationships." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Late Marriage (2001) |
"The movie understands like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Latter Days (2004) |
"Sounds like the kind of movie that might appeal to, I dunno, maybe all seven openly gay Mormons and not many others." |
Valerie Kuklenski |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"McDormand seems to know how to get the most out of the smoggy material, giving one of her most natural and appealing characterizations." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"It's a movie you forget while you're watching it." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Layer Cake (2005) |
"Layer Cake doesn't offer much that we haven't seen before." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) |
"... one that will likely earn more respect from viewers than it will passion." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"When one of the main triumphs of your overproduced action movie is an ensemble member's enunciation, that's a sure sign you didn't make something very extraordinary." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2005) |
"Marvelously entertaining." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Leatherheads (2008) |
"Artificial as Leatherheads sometimes gets, it's grounded in modern screen naturalism. As in all of Clooney's directing efforts, there's also an ethical seriousness at its core." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Left Behind - The Movie (2001) |
"So awful that even true believers will have difficulty staying awake." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"The derivative nature of the endeavor ... tends to overwhelm its isolated moments of original wit." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1/4 |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) |
"An early front-runner for dog of the year." |
Glenn Whipp |
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