Man On Fire
April 23, 2004 | Revenge is sour and Denzel Washington is dour in Man on Fire, a grimly efficient but distractingly pretentious revenge thriller about a burnt-out CIA operative who gets…
Maid In Manhattan
December 12, 2002 | Adjectives such as “nice” and “pleasant” may seem like left-handed compliments – or, worse, ironic putdowns – in an era when too of what passes for film…
Magnolia
January 7, 2000 | You barely have a chance to get comfortable in your seat before the wild ride begins in Magnolia. With equal measures of deadpan cool and breathless…
Love Actually
November 7, 2003 | Richard Curtis, the screenwriter of Notting Hill and Four Weddings and Funeral, graduates to multi-hyphenate status with Love Actually , and it's altogether appropriate to grant…
The Lonely Lady
September 30, 1983 | In The Lonely Lady, a sleazy soap opera based on a Harold Robbins potboiler, Pia Zadora, the world’s oldest living nymphet, plays JeriLee Randall, a would-be writer…
Left Behind
February 4, 2001 | If you hear the word “rapture” and don’t immediately think of a golden oldie by Blondie, you may be part of the target audience for Left…
Leaving Las Vegas
October 27, 1995 | One last spin of the dice, one final round before closing time. That's all Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage) really wants during his long, lingering bender in…
Lawrence of Arabia
March 17, 1989 | This is the way God, and director David Lean, intended you to see Lawrence of Arabia -- in a pristine-condition, fully restored 70mm print, edited to the original…
Laws of Attraction
April 30, 2004 | She's a risk-averse, by-the-book workaholic who over-prepares for every eventuality with a fanatical attentiveness to detail. He's an easygoing, imperturbable charmer who appears to be improvising…
Late August Early September
July 7, 1999 | Olivier Assayas' Late August, Early September is an affectingly melancholy drama that addresses us in the soft yet insistent tone of someone sharing intimate secrets. This…