Tomato 4/4 |
L'Avventura (1960) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
L'Avventura (1960) |
"one of those rare achievements that embodies an entirely new mode of film language" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
L'Enfant (2006) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"Destined to be one of the best, if not the best, of the year." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/5 |
La Bęte Humaine (1938) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/5 |
La Collectionneuse (1971) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Femme Nikita (1990) |
"A tightly wound, explosive film that delivers more than is required." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Prise De Pouvoir Par Louis XIV (1966) |
"clearly a product of the great neorealist director's hand, particularly in the way it emphasizes the small details of life that are often ignored in movies that are built around narrative or visual spectacle" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ladies of the Bois de Bologne (1944) |
"Les Dames has moments of subtle power that suggest the direction Bresson’s filmmaking aesthetic would eventually take; in fact, it was the last film he made in the traditional style before striking out completely on his own." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ladies of the Bois de Bologne (1944) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Lady Eve (1941) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Lady Eve (1941) |
"Preston Sturges' ode to romance as the greatest con game of all" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"More than anything, Lady in the Water is a work of great hubris--a jaw-dropping exercise in which a populist artist tests his audience's limits. Will they swallow this pill whole or spit it back only halfway down?" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Lady Vanishes (1938) |
"both funny and intriguing in the way it develops its mystery and then strings it out into a web of espionage and deceit" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Ladykillers (1955) |
"a wonderfully macabre comedy" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Ladykillers (1955) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"It is worth watching just to see Hanks chewing into a juicy, throwaway comic role." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) |
"Half-serious and half-mocking, this film occupies a confused area where it isn't exactly sure what it is." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
Lake Placid (1999) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"The film falls apart." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Lancelot of the Lake (1975) |
"Bresson's style may not be for everyone, but one has to respect his strength as an artist." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/5 |
The Land of College Prophets |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"perhaps the movie isn't quite weird enough, so instead of seeming inspired in its dementedness, it just seems inept and desperate" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"a disjointed adventure movie that has no place to go" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"a jingoistic military action fantasy about the enduring power of what it means to be a soldier" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Days of Disco (1998) |
"Stilillman pulls off a unique balancing act of conveying the specificities of the cultural milieu but also maintaining a sense of universality that keeps the film from being solely about its time and place" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Last Emperor (1987) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Last House on the Left (1972) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Last House on the Left (1972) |
"a supremely schizophrenic movie, alternating awkward scenes of bad comedy with gruesome and unsettling moments of violence that reach a nasty level of documentary realism" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"rectifies the original's bizarre tonal range, but also dilutes its thematic power by completely discarding the critical portrayal of vengeance as a zero-sum game" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"Director Kevin Macdonald brings his experience as documentary filmmaker to bear on the film, giving us a burnished portrait of Uganda's descent into hell that is heavy on location photography, handheld jerkiness, and zooms." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Last Kiss (2006) |
"If the characters in The Last Kiss come across as a bit too whiny, it's not because they're too young, but rather because they're too self-inflated." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Last Metro (1980) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Metro (1980) |
"although not one of Truffaut's strongest works, it is nevertheless a striking and engaging film, one that reflects the great filmmaker's love of artistic creation and its role in maintaining humanity" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Last Mistress (2008) |
"The characters ultimately feel more like pawns to be manipulated, rather than flesh-and-blood human beings who suffer and love, which gives the film’s message that the two are essentially one in the same a rather hollow ring." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Last Picture Show (1971) |
"Ultimately, The Last Picture Show is remembered and probably always will be because it is truthful. It doesn't shy away from the inherent awkwardness of life, but instead embraces it as its subject matter." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"a deeply nostalgic and sentimental film, one that holds fast to the notion that there can be honorable warfare and that there is such a thing as a “good death”" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 2.5/5 |
The Last Sin Eater (2007) |
"The story has enough mystery and drama to keep the attention of any audience." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Last Summer (1969) |
"as disturbing as it is intriguing" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Wave (1977) |
"a unique film that bears the uneven, yet genuine, traces of a deeply felt work not entirely settled" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Last Wave (1977) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) |
"the elegant tracking shots amid the baroque architectural excesses that frame the film's lingering questions draw you into a world of mystery that seems to be ultimately understandable, yet constantly unravels at every turn" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Late Marriage (2001) |
"a blistering (and often funny) critique of conservative family traditionalism intruding on the realm of romantic love" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/5 |
Late Spring (1949) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/5 |
Late Spring (1949) |
"Ozu's camera is observational, rather than intrusive; even when we get something akin to a close-up, it never feels like it's invading the character's space." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"falls consistently flat, despite the best efforts by all involved" |
James Kendrick |
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