Tomato A+ |
L'Argent (1983) |
"A powerful and harrowing film that renews one's faith that modern cinema can bring to light what
no other medium can do in the same way." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A+ |
L'Atalante (1934) |
"Vigo has created a dreamworld, which makes his film an out of this world cinematic
experience." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
L'Avventura (1960) |
"It's a slow paced personal film that welcomes tedium as readily as mainstream films welcome action." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin (2003) |
"Can't overcome its inherent blandness." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
L'Enfant (2006) |
"Story thrives on how realistic, unsentimental, bleak and penetrating it is." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
L'Enfer (1994) |
"It's a riveting study in psychological perversion done with a taut, razor-sharp style, by a witty
director who is at the top-of-his game." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
L'Iceberg (2005) |
"Watching it was a very cold experience." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"The feel of the movie is of nostalgia for the Hollywood glamorous life of [the 1950s]..." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
L.A. Without a Map (1998) |
"The knives are never sharp enough to do justice to a subject that's so often skewered and merits a more daring treatment in its social satire." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"There were no breakthroughs." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
La Belle Captive (1983) |
"Trying to make sense out of this film is like waiting for a dwarf to grow." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A+ |
La Belle Noiseuse (1991) |
"Rivette is a quality director who has the skills and knowledge to tell such a non-action story and never allow the story to be anything but an honest
intellectual effort." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
La Bête Humaine (1938) |
"... it's the hot visuals that make the film so explosive." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
La Chevre (1982) |
"One-joke slapstick farce about a klutz who becomes useful during a kidnap investigation." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
La Collectionneuse (1971) |
"The film radiates with the charms derived from so-called sophisticated pleasures and a sneaky sense of perversion." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
La Commune (2000) |
"Remarkable re-created historical piece." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
La Cucaracha (1998) |
"This watchable neo-noir tale is all style and not much on substance." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
La Dolce Vita (1960) |
"It's winsome because of the stylish cinematography, which fills the screen with mind-blowing bizarre visuals." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
La Femme Nikita (1990) |
"An exciting and entertaining actioner that tests the plausibility of its story with an unreality check." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
La Guerre Est Finie (1966) |
"It does remain tense throughout." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A+ |
La Jetée (1962) |
"Always confounding even when it seems accessible, the mysterious and gripping plot raises unanswerable questions about time, memory and the progress of life on this planet." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
La Promesse (1996) |
"This is a grim morality tale that can't help putting you in someone else's shoes, wondering what you would do if you were in the same situation." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
La Ronde (1950) |
"Never seems more than whimsical." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
La Rupture (1970) |
"One of Claude Chabrol's key films of the 1970s." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
La Sentinelle (1992) |
"But the film itself was too poorly executed to sustain an interest in its long drawn out and meandering story." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
La Silence De La Mer (1947) |
"Melville's film is stimulating and perplexing." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
La Strada (1954) |
"It's the film that first brought international acclaim to Fellini." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
La Terre (1921) |
"Highly regarded as one of France's more significant silent films." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
La Truite (1982) |
"A bleak romantic comedy that chronicles the life of cold fish Isabelle Huppert." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"Cotillard's lip-synching of her character singing didn't do it for me." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
La Vie Promise |
"Promises more than it can deliver." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Lacombe, Lucien (1974) |
"A controversial WWII drama about the German occupation of France that has a young French Gestapo policeman romance a young Jewess." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"A well-executed Masterpiece Theater leisurely-paced type of drama." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
The Ladies Man (1961) |
"This is one of Jerry's more creative comedies." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
Ladies of the Bois de Bologne (1944) |
"... a brilliant romantic melodrama..." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Ladies of the Chorus (1949) |
"Of interest only to fans of Marilyn." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Ladies on the Rocks (1983) |
"Allows you to feel the pains of the girls who are still searching for their own identities." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Ladies They Talk About (1933) |
"This film's only claim to fame was that it established the WIP genre film." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
The Lady and the Duke (2002) |
"Despite the film's shortcomings, it's still a solid effort and a thought-provoking look at idealism gone wrong." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Lady by Choice (1934) |
"No problem with Carole Lombard in this modest sentimental comedy, she has the part down pat." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
The Lady Confesses (1945) |
"A routine mystery story with a sort of misleading title." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
The Lady Eve (1941) |
"It's just not simply an hilarious and witty battle of the sexes farce but amazingly has a tender
romantic side." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Lady for a Night (1942) |
"Dull and predictable fare." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Lady From Louisiana (1941) |
"Not much to like in this passable actioner, except for Wayne." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A+ |
The Lady from Shanghai (1948) |
"A masterpiece in the bizarre and the complex." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Lady in a Cage (1963) |
"Morbid unwatchable misogynist psychological thriller of the sensationalist school." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
The Lady in Question (1940) |
"It serves as a showcase for Rita." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Lady in the Death House (1944) |
"It's only noteworthy because it stars Lionel Atwill." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Lady in the Lake (1946) |
"Chandler's story, which might be his finest, somehow comes through this gimmicky filmmaking
experiment intact enough though much scathed.
" |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat D |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"The only frightening thing about this horror fantasy film was in how bad it was." |
Dennis Schwartz |
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