Splat 2/5 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"The details of the composition, the fluidity of the camera's movement and the magical elision between personal grief and "performed" grief are so confidently organised that one detects the shadow of a much subtler film. I wish that we could have seen it." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
La Vie Moderne (2008) |
"Raymond Depardon's documentary catches a poignant sense of lives, and livelihoods, inexorably dwindling." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
La Zona (2007) |
"The screenwriter, Laura Santullo, is slightly heavy-handed at times, but she expertly captures the mood of paranoia and self-righteousness gripping this middle-class enclave." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"Not the soft-core romp one might expect but a drama of thoughtful, touching poignancy." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
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Splat 1/5 |
Lagerfeld Confidential (2007) |
"Even by the unexacting standards of fashionista portraiture, this is a feeble effort." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"Lakeside Terrace allows the antagonism to simmer just so, and then, regrettably, lets it boil over in a climax of gunplay and a swathe of Californian brush fires, perhaps the most crashingly symbolic conflagration since Apocalypse Now." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"It's a kind of cut-price Jurassic Park, with a support cast of gabbling monkeys and lizardish humanoids, and if they don't seem far-fetched you might believe Anna Friel as a Cambridge- educated scientist." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"Both are about one notch off in their impersonation of "ordinary" people – it reminded me of Streep and De Niro in Falling in Love. Nothing offensive about it, apart from its sense of London geography." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"Director Iliadis creates undeniably tense moments in, but the depravity is so gratuitously in-your-face that even a seasoned film critic might baulk." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"So often the gentle giant, Whitaker changes tack here with an intimidating display of girth and guile, mixed in with the outward signals of untouchable nuttiness." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat |
The Last Legion (2007) |
"Tosh, but disarmingly sincere." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"The film's entertainment value resides almost entirely in the ingenuity of Butler's modus operandi; but this is cancelled out by the film's underlying stupidity." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 1/5 |
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) |
"Even with a short running time (71 mins) this scrappy, unendearing squib outstays its welcome." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
The Legend of Zorro (2005) |
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Tomato 4/5 |
The Lemon Tree (2008) |
"Lemon Tree offers no solution to the ancient struggles of ownership in the West Bank, but it shines a tender, humane light on the individual lives it continues to disrupt." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) |
"The main blight on the festivities is that, as always, Hollywood can't resist adding a little uplift." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Les Chansons d'Amour (2007) |
"Stylish, but that doesn't really make up for the drifting plot, or the lack of insight and conviction." |
Robert Hanks |
Tomato 4/5 |
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"Let the Right One In manages its own sense of doubleness with uncommon daring: you don't see many love stories that bring together pubescence and vampirism in such an elegant clinch." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
Let's Talk About The Rain (2008) |
"French writer-director Agnès Jaoui's comedy of manners takes on issues of class, race and loyalty, but in such a charming, offhand way that one hardly notices them being raised." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
"Eastwood and his cinematographer Tom Stern have done a superb and possibly unique job in showing both sides of this dreadful battle, and the pair of films together already look monumental." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Libertine (2005) |
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Splat 1/5 |
License To Wed (2007) |
"Robin Williams is back in this horrifically embarrassing and misconceived wedding comedy." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Life and Death Of Peter Sellers (2004) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jonathan Romney |
Splat 2/5 |
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"Jarmusch's characteristic indifference to narrative excitement makes it hard to love – and may indeed return you to being agnostic." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"Liberal Hollywood sends its big guns into the "war on terror" and winds up in a dreadful mess." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Lives of the Saints (2006) |
""Muddled" is the polite word, balderdash the preferred one." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Looking for Eric (2009) |
"Laverty has a proven track record as a grim social realist; he is less assured as a comic fantasist; and he is absolutely hopeless when he tries to combine the two." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Lorna's Silence (2009) |
"Unclassifiable, accomplished and mysteriously enjoyable." |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Los Olvidados (1950) |
"Buñuel was, among other things, the great dirty surrealist of cinema." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Lou Reed's Berlin (2008) |
"It's Reed's gruff and tuneless delivery that challenges one's enjoyment." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato 3/5 |
Love + Hate (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert Hanks |
Splat 2/5 |
Love Actually (2003) |
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Splat 1/5 |
Love Happens (2009) |
"What a title. Not that this crybaby romantic drama deserves much better." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 1/5 |
Love The Beast (2009) |
"This self-directed vanity project shows the actor as a decent bloke who keeps in touch with his old mates from home, but that goodwill is squandered by earnest interviews with fellow petrolheads." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Lucky You (2007) |
"The beats here aren't bad, they're just slow, slight and rather predictable." |
Anthony Quinn |
Splat 2/5 |
Lust, Caution (2007) |
"A shocking disappointment." |
Anthony Quinn |
Tomato |
Lust, Caution (2007) |
"A pleasure to watch a film as visually stylish as it is psychologically demanding. I wish it had been twice as long." |
Sukhdev Sandhu |
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