Tomato 4/4 |
L'Atalante (1934) |
"It is on many lists of the greatest films, a distinction that obscures how down to earth it is, how direct in its story of a new marriage off to a shaky start." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 1/4 |
L'Aventure C'est L'aventure (1972) |
"It maintains the wrong tone from beginning to end." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
L'Avventura (1960) |
"L'Avventura becomes a place in our imagination -- a melancholy moral desert." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"Here is a film where God does not intervene and the directors do not mistake themselves for God. It makes the solutions at the ends of other pictures seem like child's play." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
L'Enfer (1994) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
L'Iceberg (2005) |
"Delightful in places, the surreal stunts are lovingly crafted. As a seaworthy film, though, Fiona's folly is more pratfall than plot." |
Bill Stamets |
Tomato 4/4 |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"L.A. Confidential is immersed in the atmosphere and lore of film noir, but it doesn't seem like a period picture--it believes its noir values and isn't just using them for decoration." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
L.A. Story (1991) |
"Steve Martin shows again in this film that he has found the right comic presence for the movies; the lack of subtlety in early films like The Jerk has now been replaced by a smoothness and unforced intelligence." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"Its director, Michael Cuesta, has the stubborn curiosity of an artist who won't settle for formulas but is intrigued by the secrets and mysteries of his characters." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Balance (1982) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Bamba (1987) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
La Belle Noiseuse (1991) |
"Some movies are worlds that we can sink into, and La Belle Noiseuse is one of them." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
La Brune et Moi (1980) |
"Bad edits include quick-as-blink cutaways, though not in any punkish poke-in-the-eye style. The directing is comparably incompetent, without any wink at DIY stardom a la Warhol." |
Bill Stamets |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Cage Aux Folles (1978) |
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Roger Ebert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
La Chevre (1982) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Cucaracha (1998) |
"[An] intriguing, stylish little film." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Dolce Vita (1960) |
"The movie is made with boundless energy. Fellini stood here at the dividing point between the neorealism of his earlier films ... and the carnival visuals of his extravagant later ones." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Femme Nikita (1990) |
"Begins with the materials of a violent thriller but transcends them with the story of the heroine's transformation." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
La Guerre Est Finie (1966) |
"He unexpectedly gives us not only psychology but an exciting thriller, done with great artistry." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
La Lectrice (1989) |
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Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
La Ley De Herodes (2000) |
"Luis Estrada, the co-writer and director, uses his characters so clearly as symbols that he neglects to give them the complexity of human beings." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2.5/4 |
La Nuit De Varennes (1983) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
La Strada (1954) |
"La Strada is the first film that can be called entirely 'Felliniesque.'" |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
La Truite (1982) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"... one of the best biopics I've seen ..." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
Labyrinth (1986) |
"Great energy and creativity went into the construction, production and direction of this movie, but it doesn't have a story that does justice to the production." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"The best compliment I can pay Ladder 49 is to say that it left me feeling thoughtful and sad." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Ladies in Lavender assembles those two great Dames, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and sends them off to play sisters sharing a cozy little cottage on the Cornwall coast. That is an inspiration. What they do there is a disappointment." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 1/4 |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"Desperately unfunny." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
Il Ladro di bambini (1992) |
"Here is a movie with the spontaneity of life; watching it is like living it." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007) |
"International talents converge for an entertaining genre exercise." |
Bill Stamets |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"An elegant story about an elegant woman, told in an elegant visual style." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"All of the qualities its admirers see in the film are indeed there, and visible, but I was not much moved. Lawrence wrote much better novels that inspired much better movies..." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Lady Eve (1941) |
"A movie like The Lady Eve is so hard to make that you can't make it at all unless you find a way to make it seem effortless. Preston Sturges does a kind of breathless balancing act here, involving romance, deception and physical comedy." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
Lady in Cement (1968) |
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Roger Ebert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"Who am I to knock the work of the man who, in his own film, casts himself as a writer whose ideas will inspire a future leader who will save the world -- an artist whose work will not be fully understood in his own time, but only many years later?" |
Jim Emerson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Lady in White (1988) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lady Sings the Blues (1972) |
"The movie is filled with many of the great Billie Holiday songs, and Ross handles them in an interesting way. She doesn't sing in her own style, and she never tries to imitate Holiday, but she sings somehow in the manner of Holiday." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ladybird, Ladybird (1994) |
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Roger Ebert |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"Always wildly signaling for us to notice it. Not content to be funny, it wants to be FUNNY! Have you ever noticed that the more a comedian wears funny hats, the less funny he is?" |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lagaan (2001) |
"An enormously entertaining movie, like nothing we've ever seen before, and yet completely familiar." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Lake House (2006) |
"Enough of the plot and its paradoxes. What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic impulse. It makes us hope these two people will somehow meet." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Lake of Fire (2007) |
"At 152 minutes, his film doesn't seem long, because at every moment something absorbing, disturbing, depressing or infuriating is happening." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 1/4 |
Lake Placid (1999) |
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Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lakeboat (2001) |
"I once taught a class on Mamet's films. I wish I could have opened it with this one, because for Mamet, it all starts here." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"I find movies like this alive and provoking, and I'm exhilarated to have my thinking challenged at every step of the way." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lana's Rain (2004) |
"Even as I noted a glitch here and there in the plot, I was aware that the movie itself, and especially the character of Lana, had enlisted my sympathy." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Land Before Time (1988) |
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Roger Ebert |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Land Girls (1998) |
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Roger Ebert |
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