Tomato 3/5 |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"Olivier Dahan presents it as a glorious musical soap, and Marion Cotillard’s rag-doll charisma is the beauty of the film" |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
La Vie Moderne (2008) |
"The pastoral beauty of the scenery and the lyrical journey of Depardon’s camera are underscored by a sense of acute melancholy and hopelessness in this affecting film." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
La Zona (2007) |
"The viral atmosphere of intimidation is alarming, and thick with resonant premonitions of a legion of dystopian urban tomorrows." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"There comes a point in the highly lauded and award-winning French language Lady Chatterley that you want to scream: “Just shag him already! It’s only sex!”." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
Lagerfeld Confidential (2007) |
"Anyone hoping for a deeper insight into the fashion designer than his weakness for the construction industry should probably look somewhere other than the insubstantial documentary Lagerfeld Confidential." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"It’s a terrifically unstable performance that is admirably matched by the exasperated victims. The ending is too allegorical for its own health, but this is intelligent cinema." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Lala Pipo - A Lot of People |
"A vapid and misogynistic Japanese sex-dramedy. Idiotic." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"A doughily inexpressive Will Ferrell extinguishes any flicker of originality in one of the worst performances of his career." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"Watching them dance effortlessly through this film is a reminder that two actors at the absolute top of their game can weave magic even in a slightly predictable example of a wholly formulaic genre." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"A dismal reminder of just how starved Hollywood studios are for good ideas." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"There’s a nihilistic and unmistakeable whiff of Apocalypse Now about the last wild reel, and the carnage left over by the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport." |
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Splat 2/5 |
The Last Legion (2007) |
"No twist is too farfetched for this Dino De Laurentiis epic." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"Full of incoherent, spitting rage, ignorant, paranoid violence and a complete lack of internal logic." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) |
"Considine’s performance, for instance, is an enthralling piece of improvisation that carries the entire movie." |
Kevin Maher |
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Legally Blonde (2001) |
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Barbara Ellen |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Lemon Tree (2008) |
"It’s a film rich with symbolism, from the fortified fence that separates Salma from much of her land to the lemons and the disputed earth that grows them." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Les Chansons d'Amour (2007) |
"Not least of the film’s problems is the score: thirteen overly wordy, thoroughly unremarkable songs, breathily performed by a cast with no notable singing ability." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"Let the Right One In, a deliciously macabre story of a tentative romance between a bullied 12-year-old boy and the strange girl who moves in next door, is pure magic." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat |
Let's Talk About The Rain (2008) |
"Each of the key characters feels disenfranchised in some way, but the meandering ensemble story doesn’t reach any real conclusions." |
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Splat 1/5 |
A Letter to True (2004) |
"The film, a rambling love-letter to Weber’s favourite doggy, True, crudely interweaves the photographer’s usual obsessions – tough, shirtless boys and faded Hollywood stars – with meaningless ruminations how, like, war is really bad." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
"The moral is hardly original. The scale certainly is. Only a director of Eastwood’s standing could possibly terrify enough producers into financing this decidedly foreign, but impressively chunky, white elephant." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
License To Wed (2007) |
"Divorce is more fun than this film." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008) |
"Surely the point of a “twist” is that it should slot into the plot with a satisfying click, not that it should invalidate 50 per cent of what came before it?" |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"It’s bold, confrontational cinema that will, as its author intended, have you questioning at every turn just what it is you expect from a modern movie, and more importantly, why." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Linha de passe |
"Ultimately, there is an optimism to the film, albeit one that is tempered by the poignancy of lives shadowed by São Paulo’s harsh indifference." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Lion's Den (2009) |
"A powerful blast about jails in Argentina." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"There’s a message behind Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford’s latest outing as a director. And my goodness don’t we know it by the end of a 94-minute hectoring that feels far, far longer." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Little Ashes (2009) |
"The presence of Robert Twilight Pattinson in the cast of Little Ashes might generate more interest in this insubstantial drama than its meagre merits warrant." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Little Box of Sweets (2006) |
"Sugar-coated and naive, Little Box of Sweets is an Indian coming-of-age story that feels firmly mired in the colonial melodrama of the Merchant Ivory era." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Live! (2007) |
"Bill Guttentag’s film is one of those shrill and cheery conspiracies on the wilder side of probability. But the black comedy has an infectious pace, and screwy logic." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Lives of Others (2006) |
"Few films have dared paint East Germany and its legions of demons in such honest and unsparing detail. Von Donnersmarck puts a pickaxe into the past." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Looking for Eric (2009) |
"Looking for Eric is scathing about the erosion of communal values and the violent, selfish mess of inner-city life." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Lookout (2007) |
"The film describes emotional and moral rehabilitation in the face of extreme danger." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lorna's Silence (2009) |
"The Silence of Lorna won Best Screenplay at this year’s Cannes Festival but the Dardenne brothers’ latest slice of grim Belgian life could have taken its pick of the prizes." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
The Lost City (2006) |
"Andy Garcia’s preposterous vanity project The Lost City is an all-singing, all-dancing version of the Cuban Revolution." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
A Lot Like Love (2005) |
"That's weird. I’m sure that When Harry Met Sally had been made already. And didn’t it used to be funny?" |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Love and Honour (2006) |
"The storytelling is all rather flat, as is the lighting. And the duel, when it finally comes, is something of an anticlimax." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Love Exposure |
"Curious and tasteless, but never dull." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The Love Guru (2008) |
"Myers has created in Pitka a character that’s sexually ambiguous, deeply neurotic and far more fascinating than the puerile script." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
Love Happens (2009) |
"Everyone is trying to re-invent the rom-com at the moment and the makers of Love Happens are no exceptions. The formula they’ve come up with is to remove all the comedy, which is a bold choice." |
Toby Young |
Splat 2/5 |
Love Songs (2008) |
"It’s a story which Honoré describes as personal, so we must assume that there is some truth at least in the premise. But the decision to set the story to music undermines the emotional honesty that the piece might otherwise have had." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Love The Beast (2009) |
"An innocuous if not entirely successful attempt to convince “non-car people” about the joys of loving a 1974 Ford Falcon XB coupe." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"[Ronan] captures the uncertainty and intensity of thwarted teenage passions perfectly but, set against the artifice and the manipulative tendencies of the story, her admirable performance is rather swamped." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Lucky You (2007) |
"Though Curtis Hanson captures the savage swings from high to low, he fails to when it comes to the addictive quality of poker" |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lust, Caution (2007) |
"The intensity of the sex is far more honest and revealing than the secrets each lover tries to hide." |
James Christopher |
Tomato |
Lust, Caution (2007) |
"Quietly mesmerising." |
Nigel Andrews |
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