Tomato 4/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"The miracle of the filmmakers' work would seem to be the perfectly struck performances of the leads." |
Stephen Cole |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"A rattling good police story and a dark, laughing tone poem to the never-innocent city of illusions." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
L.I.E. (2001) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
La Promesse (1996) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"A sweepingly melodramatic and, in [director] Dahan's words, 'tragic, romantic blockbuster' of a movie that not only captures the (soap) operatic life of its subject with unflinching honesty but refuses to see her any other way." |
Kamal Al-Solaylee |
Splat 1/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"The kind of sentimental cash grab that can make a red-blooded gal feel cynical and depressed not just about Hollywood, but America in general." |
Leah McLaren |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Pastel-light but highly pleasurable." |
Jennie Punter |
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The Ladies Man (2000) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"Whenever the subtleties of political morality get a bit overbearing, there's a respite in the painterly streets of Paris, where, we are reminded, the past was another city, strange and resistant to present-day adornments." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"A picture about passion that invites none, a picture far easier to admire than to adore." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"Crazy as this might sound, it turns out that self-indulgent ramblings designed to put your children to sleep are pretty much the opposite of art." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"For anyone else interested in one of the most skillful and startling directors today, Vengeance is worth bracing yourself for." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"Buy the soundtrack now, rent the movie later -- this is minor Coen in a major key." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"We also know the last time Keanu and Sandra shared the screen together. That was yesterday and Speed. This is today and Snail. I'm not betting on a tomorrow." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Lake Placid (1999) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"In its second half, Lakeview Terrace runs out of steam, culminating in a flatly directed climax, complete with halos of police lights, whirling helicopters and declamatory dialogue." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lan Yu (2002) |
"There is much that is touching in the affair of Lan Yu and Handong." |
Ray Conlogue |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Land Girls (1998) |
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Splat 1/4 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"The only discernible intention in Land of the Lost, the latest comedy starring Will Ferrell acting like Will Ferrell, seems to have been to take a slight idea and make the least of it in a very expensive way." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Lantana (2001) |
"A sensitive essay that dearly wants to be a feature film." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"Despite extra scoops of action, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life isn't nearly as much fun as the original." |
Stephen Cole |
Splat 2/4 |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"The movie credits five separate persons for the story and screenplay, a quintet of scribes who might better consider a career shift into acting -- they've clearly done a splendid job of impersonating monkeys at a typewriter." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"A sweet little fable about how a delusional man-child is helped by the loving ministrations of his family and community, the kind of throwback flick where human nature is seen as inherently good -- a notion so quaint that it feels damn near buoyant." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"When the screen finally darkens and the doors open for our release, we come away mildly entertained by the experience, although definitely grateful to get off with time served." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"You can't take a script flimsy enough for a Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey vehicle and expect a couple of real thoroughbreds like Thompson and Hoffman not to shred it to pieces." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Last Continent (2008) |
"You can't help wondering whether less telling and more showing would have served this film and its politics better." |
Kamal Al-Solaylee |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Days (1998) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Last Days (2005) |
"Gus Van Sant ventures into the valley of death steering by an idiosyncratic compass and forsaking the aid of a conventional cinematic map." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last Days of Disco (1998) |
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The Last Good Time (1994) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"The pace drags, the stunt double work is obvious and the slapstick, especially a ski-hill scene, is contrived and extended." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"A deliberate, underplayed horror movie that is truly shocking." |
Stephen Cole |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"A compelling, though somewhat problematic, story set deep inside Idi Amin's brutal dictatorship in Uganda." |
Jennie Punter |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Kiss (2002) |
"It's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful, self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful, self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress." |
Stephen Cole |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"... credible resolutions aren't [Haggis'] strongest suit." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Last Legion (2007) |
"All are given swords to swing and mouthfuls of fake archaic dialogue to speak and none of it makes a whisper of sense." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Last Man Standing (1996) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last Mistress (2008) |
"Despite an austere budget and some minor anachronisms, The Last Mistress proves that Breillat has found something in the luscious language of the 19th century that makes sense to us today." |
Kamal Al-Solaylee |
Splat 2/4 |
The Last Mogul (2005) |
"In covering so much acreage, Avrich has failed to dig deep for material that might have shed more light on Wasserman's ways." |
Michael Posner |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Last Night (1998) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Last Orders (2002) |
"The joy of Last Orders is its pub talk, the Cockney joking and provoking style of banter, and the extraordinary group of actors who bring the characters to life." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"Grandly overblown and deeply cornball, The Last Samurai is a visually detailed historical recreation of 19th-century Japan that's as thin as rice paper in ideas." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Last Wedding (2001) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Late Marriage (2001) |
"Late Marriage is definitely rocky, but there's never a point where we lose interest and want out -- as relationships go, that's not bad." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Latin Boys Go To Hell (1997) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"Plays out like a slow-motion sex farce." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"This strikes me as narrative cheating, but you may play the critical game by more relaxed rules." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Law of Enclosures (2000) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Lawless Heart (2002) |
"It thins out until the repetitive format begins to seem, well, repetitive." |
Rick Groen |
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