Tomato A- |
L.I.E. (2001) |
"Anyone with an eye for well-made, well-acted, emotionally powerful films will certainly find it worth watching." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
La Vie En Rose (2007) |
"It follows the same template as all the other biopics but produces better-than-usual results, thanks to a shattering central performance." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
Ladder 49 (2004) |
"If the film loses itself midstream, forgetting where it's going and which paths it needs to take to get there, Phoenix saves it with equal parts heroism and humanity." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Ladies in Lavender (2005) |
"Dench and Smith are the sort of performers that students of fine acting are pleased to watch in anything, even if it's sweet-but-unsatisfying, unremarkable stuff like this." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
The Ladies Man (2000) |
"While Meadows is likable and often makes his lines a little funnier than they should be, the film is still chock-full of dreadfully, painfully, grossly unfunny moments." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
Lady Chatterley (2006) |
"Devoting three hours to her isn't any more rewarding than two hours would have been." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"When it's over you think: 'Really? That was it?' Maybe that's the twist." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
Lady Vengeance (2005) |
"Somewhere over the course of this trilogy, most of the flavor has gone out." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"I like the movie, but with the top-notch acting, cinematography and dialogue it has, I should have loved it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
Lagaan (2001) |
"A skillfully made, good-natured movie." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
The Lake House (2006) |
"A mature and earnest romantic drama that is far superior to the bubblegum we usually get." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"No matter how much the film wants to be an examination of race relations, it's really just a medium-grade potboiler, watchable but unmemorable." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
Lan Yu (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
Lantana (2001) |
"These are, for the most part, believable and honest characters, though I'm not sure they always behave the way they would in real life." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) |
"It repeats the mistakes of the first film and compounds them with the cardinal sin of taking itself too seriously." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) |
"You defeat a monster, you walk into another room, and there's another monster to defeat. Repeat until time is up." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
The Laramie Project (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D- |
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) |
"It reeks of desperation, among other things." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
Lars And The Real Girl (2007) |
"There are a million ways this film could go wrong, and it succumbs to none of them." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
The Last Castle (2001) |
"A movie that makes you want to rally behind it, even though you have a sneaking suspicion that when the dust settles, you'll realize it wasn't much of a movie after all." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"Hoffman and Thompson make it sublime, a genuinely pleasant 90 minutes spent with two thoroughly engaging characters." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
Last Days (2005) |
"If there's a real person in all this, he is lost in your stubbornly experimental filmmaking technique. Experiments are only interesting when they work, you know." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
Last Holiday (2006) |
"The movie completely falls apart. It doesn't make any sense, any of it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"There's something admirable about a film that so effectively taps into a viewer's primal instincts." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
The Last King of Scotland (2006) |
"We are in awe not that the character is so wildly unstable, but that Whitaker has made such a wildly unstable character seem so natural." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
The Last Kiss (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
The Last Legion (2007) |
"I will at least smile as I recall its harmless idiocy, in much the same way that one smiles at retarded people one passes on the street." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"There are weak spots in the story, but it's such a fun story, and there's so much warmth in the characters' relationships with one another, that it hardly matters." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
Last Night (1998) |
"Rarely has a movie provoked such deep thought as Last Night does." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"It's an epic, to be sure, but it keeps a close eye on the humanity of its story and eschews needless spectacle." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D |
The Last Time (2006) |
"A melodramatic disaster." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Late Marriage (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C- |
Latter Days (2004) |
"The curse of gay cinema is its belief that worn-out movie plots will become interesting if you put gay characters in them. This film takes the curse several steps further." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"A pointless exercise in phony social commentary that has no idea what its real message is." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D |
Laws of Attraction (2004) |
"The film doesn't have a 'plot' so much as it has a series of weak, pointless scenes that aren't funny, don't develop the characters and don't further the story." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
Layer Cake (2005) |
"It does nothing revolutionary, but it handles the basics with entertaining aplomb." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"Anemic and forgettable, but not entirely unlikable." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
Leatherheads (2008) |
"A loopy Roaring Twenties screwball comedy, executed with confidence." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
Left Behind - The Movie (2001) |
"As a film, it's terrible." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
Legally Blonde (2001) |
"With a talented actress like Reese Witherspoon in the lead, it becomes easy to suspend disbelief and just go with it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (2003) |
"With a few entertaining bits and the unstoppable force of Reese’s charm, the film manages to pass by without causing any pain. But it is a weak comparison to its predecessor." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
The Legend of Bagger Vance (1999) |
"An eminently likable film, full of eminently likable stars playing eminently likable characters. It seems to have delusions of being a deep, meaningful piece of work, but if you disregard that false notion, there's nothing not to like about it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
The Legend of Drunken Master (1994) |
"While the plot does get in the way of what viewers are really after, there's enough of the fun stuff to keep them interested." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003) |
"It's not a bad film, and it has a certain sweetness to it. It's just so unnecessary, that's all." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
The Legend of Zorro (2005) |
"It is good fun, but not great fun, and it's much longer than it ought to be." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) |
"If the movie were as wildly creative as it looks, it would be brilliant, instead of merely OK." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
Let the Right One In (2008) |
"How can a movie be so tender, poignant, horrific, and gory all at once?" |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
Let's Go to Prison (2006) |
"It has laughs, it has some cleverness, and it has a lot of problems. But it's not 'bad,' exactly. 'Dysfunctional' is more like it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato 4/5 |
Lethal Weapon (1987) |
"Lethal Weapon is big, dumb fun, and often genuinely funny and exciting. It's no sin to enjoy it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
"Eastwood directs the personal scenes with tenderness and the battle scenes with shocking frankness." |
Eric D. Snider |
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