 | K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)  |
 | Khartoum (1966)  |
 | Kids are All Right, The (2010)  July 16, 2010 The Kids Are All Right is a sudsy soap opera. It's a concoction of lilac water and spermatozoa -- with lots of wine and whine. The Kids Are All Right is the story of a contemporary lesbian family. When the two children -- ... more |
 | Killer Inside Me, The (2010)  June 25, 2010 When a screenplay of a movie does not serve its literary source well, it's a major problem. When a movie is directed tentatively, it's a major problem. When a movie is miscast, it's a major problem. The Killer Inside ... more |
 | King of Kings (1961) |
 | King's Speech, The (2010) |
 | Kingdom, The (2007) June 22, 2009 The box office success of The Hangover puts into interesting context another movie about a bachelor party that goes wrong in Las Vegas. The other brutal bachelor blast is 1998's Very Bad Things. The Hangover is an ... more |
 | Kite Runner, The (2007) |
 | Kites (2010) May 29, 2010 Kites is an aromatic, cinematic Indian mutton stew -- if that sounds different from usual movie fare, it is. It's a Bollywood mixture of romance, violence, action, music, and differing cultures and languages. Sometimes it's ... more |
 | Knight and Day (2010)  June 27, 2010 Knight and Day is a hoot. It's a doozy. It's Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote teamed up. By the end, Wile E. has become wily Wonder Woman. If you think Road Runner cartoons are silly, you probably won't like Kni ... more |
 | Knocked Up (2007) June 14, 2007 Knocked Up is like a Hallmark Greeting Card with crude verse. Knocked Up is an uneasy mix of ethnic humor, slacker humor, and human drama -- some is amusing, some is indulgent, and some is strained. It has been immensely well-received ... more |
 | L'Avventura (1960) |
 | L.A. Confidential (1997) |
 | La dolce vita (1960)  |
 | La Femme Nikita (1990) |
 | La Vie en Rose (2007) |
 | Lady in the Box (2001) May 17, 2001 Lady in the Box debuted at CineVegas last December, then became a hit on the festival circuit When a film has its world premiere in Las Vegas, what then happens to it? If the film is the independent Lady in the Box, it goes from Las ... more |
 | Ladykillers, The (2004) |
 | Larry Crowne (2011) |
 | Last Chance Harvey (2008) January 29, 2009 Last Chance Harvey is an easygoing trip abroad. It features two relaxed pros playing acting tennis -- hitting graceful lobs to each other, and then artful returns. The two acting aces are Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, wh ... more |
 | Last Detail, The (1973) |
 | Last Hurrah, The (1958) |
 | Last King of Scotland, The (2006) |
 | Last Picture Show, The (1971) |
 | Last Station, The (2009) February 13, 2010 The Last Station is a tale of venerable conflict, deception, and love. It's an age-old, old age power struggle. But it's not just in the room down the hall of the retirement home; it's in Mother Russia. Based on ... more |
 | Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988) |
 | Laurel Canyon (2002) |
 | Lawless (2012) August 28, 2012 Where has the western gone? It's gone to Virginia. Lawless is about bootleggers during Prohibition in the early 1930s, but it has all the staples of a western. Instead of the five Earp brothers, Lawless is about t ... more |
 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
 | Layer Cake (2004) |
 | Le Diner de Cons (1998) |
 | League of Their Own, A (1992) |
 | Leatherheads (2008) |
 | Lebanon (2010) |
 | Left Handed Gun, The (1958) |
 | Leon the Professional (1994) |
 | Les Misérables (2012) |
 | Letters from Iwo Jima (2007)  |
 | Life of Pi (2012) |
 | Life, Above All (2010) September 9, 2011 Life, Above All is 100 minutes of grief and courage. We share an arduous trek with 12-year old Chanda (Khomotso Manyaka) in rural South Africa, as she tries to fathom fatal illness around her. She has multiple, heavy burdens on her ... more |
 | Light of Day (1987) |
 | Lilo and Stitch (2002) |
 | Limitless (2011) |
 | Lincoln (2012) |
 | Lincoln Lawyer, The (2011) |
 | Lion King, The (1994) |
 | Lions for Lambs (2007)  |
 | Little Miss Sunshine (2006) |
 | Live Free or Die Hard (2007) July 13, 2007 Live Free or Die Hard is an over-the-top, fun rampage. Moviegoers often have to suspend their disbelief to relate to a movie. They have to accept the unbelievable, even, at times, the ridiculous, to enjoy themselves. But the movie has to e ... more |
 | Lolita (1962) |
 | Long Goodbye, The (1973) |
 | Long Green Line, The (2008) December 10, 2012 The Long Green Line is a high-spirited celebration of life on a high school cross country team in Illinois. It's not your average cross country team. It's the York Dukes in Elmhurst, Illinois, who had won 24 state titles, an ... more |
 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) |
 | Lookout, The (2007) |
 | Looper (2012) September 25, 2012 Looper is stylish mayhem. It careens along the edge of silliness. It stalls and starts and spins out. It's a spastic attack on its audience's suspension of disbelief. Who knew the future could contain so much hokum? ... more |
 | Loren Cass (2006) |
 | Lost in Translation (2003) |
 | Lost Weekend, The (1945) |
 | Love Crime (2011) October 9, 2011 Love Crime is a slick French cinema croissant filled with sweet and sour revenge. Part way through, you wonder what is going on. You simply aren't sure where it's going. It all falls into place at the end -- perhaps ... more |
 | Lovely Bones, The (2009) |
 | Lucky You (2007) May 10, 2007 I don't think I believed the movie Lucky You, but I sort of enjoyed it. A caveat: I enjoy watching poker on ESPN. If you don't, this movie will bore you. Set in Las Vegas, Lucky You is a relationship movie, but that damned poker keeps gett ... more |
 | M*A*S*H (1970) |
 | Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) |
 | Malena (2001) February 1, 2001 Giuseppe Tornatore's Malena lacks emotional resonance For those of us who love Cinema Paradiso, the news that its Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and his musical soulmate Ennio Morricone were getting back together to do another ... more |
 | Maltese Falcon, The (1941) |
 | Mamma Mia! (2008) |
 | Man on Fire (2004) |
 | Man on the Moon (1999) |
 | Man on Wire (2008) |
 | Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976) |
 | Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) |
 | Manhattan Melodrama (1934) |
 | Manhunter (1986) |
 | March of the Penguins (2005) |
 | Margin Call (2011) October 24, 2011 Margin Call puts human faces behind the masks of Big Business. Although one character says, "This is not a prison" -- in many ways the business monoliths on Wall Street can be related to prisons. They both have harsh ... more |
 | Marley (2012) |
 | Marnie (1964) |
 | Master, The (2012) September 26, 2012 Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master baits the audience. One notable reviewer, in a major magazine, ended his rave: "He [Anderson] clarifies nothing, but leaves us brooding on our own confusion." WTF ... more |
 | McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) |
 | Mean Streets (1973) |
 | Mechanic, The (1972) |
 | Melancholia (2011) |
 | Melvin and Howard (1980) |
 | Men in Black 3 (2012) June 2, 2012 1968 was the year both Will Smith and Josh Brolin were born. Now Smith and Brolin get together on screen for about an hour in Men in Black 3 - set when? 1969. It's a serendipitous uniting. Smith again plays Agent ... more |
 | Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) |
 | Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008) |
 | Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2010) October 27, 2010 The late Swedish author Stieg Larsson is the literary darling of 2010. His Millennium trilogy -- three novels published posthumously -- has caused an international sensation. I admit that I am among the smitten. Larsson's novels are en ... more |
 | Messenger, The (2009) |
 | Miami Vice (2006) |
 | Michael Clayton (2007) |
 | Micmacs (2010) July 4, 2010 Micmacs is a Gallic mishmash. It's a sloppy souffle that falls more than it rises. It's airless whimsy. Micmacs is the sporadic story of Bazil (Dany Boon), whose father was killed by a landmine in north Africa. Bazil ... more |
 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
 | Midnight in Paris (2011) |
 | Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, A (1982) |
 | Mighty Macs, The (2011) |
 | Milk (2008) |
 | Million Dollar Baby (2005) |
 | Mini, The (2007) July 15, 2010 When a critic reviews an independent movie, he realizes it has the creator's heart and soul in it. He may cut it some slack. Ron Beck wrote and directed the indie The Mini on a budget of $25,000. It has some stylistic grace, and ... more |
 | Minority Report (2002) |
 | Miracle (2004) |
 | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) March 27, 2008 People often complain, "they don't make movies like they used to." But on occasion a film is made for that audience. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is such a film. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a well-acted comedy with en ... more |
 | Miss Potter (2006) |
 | Mission Impossible II (2000) |
 | Mission, The (1986) |
 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) December 18, 2011 Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol was was made for IMAX. Be sure to see it on the huge screen. It's MI - Maximum. It blows up the Mission Impossible Force's stature. It also blows up part of of the Kremlin. As well as reason and l ... more |
 | Mississippi Burning (1988) |
 | Missouri Breaks, The (1976) |
 | Moneyball (2011) September 26, 2011 Moneyball is an impelling triple. It's smart, agile, and effective. But it's anti-climactic, as though the runner is stranded on third base. Moneyball is the story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), the general manag ... more |
 | Mongol (2008) |
 | Monitor, The (2012) July 28, 2012 The Monitor [originally titled Babycall] is a morose sturdy of morose behavior with an actress giving a morose performance. It's all pretty morose. The Monitor is the story of Anna (Noomi Rapace) who has come to Os ... more |
 | Monkeybone (2001) March 1, 2001 The already flopping Monkeybone deserves its fate The film Monkeybone is a raucous mess. Director Henry Selick mixes animation and live action to the noisy, clumsy detriment of both. It's the strident story of cartoonist Stu Miley ( ... more |
 | Monsieur Lazhar (2012) July 5, 2012 Maybe the best thing about Monsieur Lazhar is that the school children in it really seem to care about education. Of course, it's in Canada. Set in a middle school in Montreal, the French-language Canadian film is the st ... more |
 | Monster (2003) |
 | Moon is Blue, The (1953) |
 | Mother (2010) |
 | Motherland (2009) July 17, 2009 I'm afraid criticizing a movie such as Motherland is like booing at a funeral. It's almost out of place to have doubts about a movie that so earnestly wants to offer healing. Almost. I have a soft spot for an endeavo ... more |
 | Motorcycle Diaries (2004) |
 | Mud (2013) May 1, 2013 Mud deserves more than a single viewing. In fact, I think it demands - and will reward - continued attention. Mud is a rare contemporary commercial film that has rich depth, engaging style, and personal vision ... more |
 | Muppets, The (2011) December 26, 2011 The "Rainbow Connection" is reconnected in 2011. It's a dazzling reunion. The Muppets is a joyful mix of the nostalgic past and a vibrant present. It tops the list of family movies for the holidays. If you're ... more |
 | Must Read After My Death (2009) February 5, 2009 Playwright Luigi Pirandello once wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author. Filmmaker Morgan Dews has concocted a movie that could be called Six Family Members in Search of a Way Out. Dews's film is titled Mu ... more |
 | My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) |
 | My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
 | Mysterious Skin (2004) |
 | Mystic River (2003) |
 | Naked and the Dead, The (1958) Naked and the Dead, The (1958) |
 | Nanny McPhee (2005) |
 | Nashville (1975) |
 | Nathalie (2003) |
 | National Treasure (2004) |
 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) |
 | Natural, The (1984) |
 | Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
 | New World, The (2005) |
 | Night Listener, The (2006) |
 | Nixon (1995) |
 | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
 | No Way Out (1987) |
 | North by Northwest (1959) |
 | Not Fade Away (2012) December 26, 2012 Not Fade Away is one of those films that really depend on what you bring to it. It's a personal experience - both for the writer/director David Chase and maybe for scattered audience members. It may leave the average audienc ... more |
 | Nowhere Boy (2009) |
 | Oblivion (2013) April 23, 2013 Scientologists, forget wives. Get Tom Cruise some actresses. Please. Cruise's forte, as an actor, is his solid credibility. But in Oblivion he has more chemistry with drones than with his two love interests. They ... more |
 | Of Gods and Men (2010) |
 | Once in a Lifetime (2006) |
 | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) |
 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
 | Ordinary People (1980) |
 | Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) |
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