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  • Lilting (2014)
    Review preview for Lilting

    Although the pacing is sometimes poor, the sentiment - while occasionally straying towards the sentimental - is heartfelt and sweet spirited.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A bereaved mother and the boyfriend of her son find a connection.
  • Lilya 4-ever (2002)
    Review preview for Lilya 4-ever

    For a film that is dealing with front line despair, it is remarkably uplifting.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A Russian teenager is abandoned by her mother and must fend for herself.
  • Li'l Quinquin (2014)
    Review preview for Li'l Quinquin

    Dumont - for all the outlandishness of the film in other aspects - prioritises a messy realism over straightforward likeability in relation to his protagonists.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    A blackly comic murder mystery develops in a small town in northern France.
  • Limbo (1999)
    Review preview for Limbo

    John Sayles... ability to create flawed romantics with brooding secrets that lurk in the shadow of danger is remarkable.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Ensemble drama about secrets in smalltown Alaska.
  • Limbo (2014)
    Review preview for Limbo

    Confidently slow burning and comfortable with moving at its own speed.

    Rebecca Naughten · 3 out of 5
    A connection grows between a teenager and a newly arrived teacher.
  • The Limehouse Golem (2016)
    Review preview for The Limehouse Golem

    The film has a genuine sense of grand guignol, the Gothic undercurrent of bloody horror

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A detective goes on the trail of a serial killer in Victorian London.
  • Limited Partnership (2014)
    Review preview for Limited Partnership

    This documentary brings an important personal dimension to the long struggle for equal marriage.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Two men who married in Colorado in 1975 recall their struggle for true equality and talk of the love that kept them going.
  • The Limits Of Control (2009)
    Review preview for The Limits Of Control

    I suspect even Jarmusch’s most ardent fans will find longeurs.

    James Benefield · 2.5 out of 5
    A mysterious man shares coffee and conversation with people, writing down details on matchbook flaps. But what are his motives?
  • Lincoln (2012)
    Review preview for Lincoln

    Spielberg, as he is very good at, goes out on a limb to walk a tightrope of his own making between melodrama and sinewy storytelling.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    The president's battles in the Civil War and within his own cabinet.
  • Linda Green: The Complete First Series (2002)
    Review preview for Linda Green: The Complete First Series

    It doesn't go all out for laughs, as in the sainted MTM, but there are great lines aplenty, with at least a couple of out-louds per episode.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    Liza Tarbuck plays a sassy, sexy single Manchester girl in a well-written BBC TV series.
  • Linha De Passe (2008)
    Review preview for Linha De Passe

    There are some amazing performances here.

    Val Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of one family's struggle to survive poverty in Brazil.
  • L'Intrus (2004)
    Review preview for L'Intrus

    No plot, no point, except L'Intrus is consistently exciting to look at.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Plot-defying drama about a naked man, with dogs.
  • Lion (2016)
    Review preview for Lion

    To its great merit, the film does not go for romanticizing or exploiting this child's life-threatening dilemma and the impossibly difficult decision-making process can be felt throughout.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    An Indian man who was adopted by an Australian couple as a boy heads off to find his real family.
  • Lioness (2008)
    Review preview for Lioness

    It is the unspoken experience, the agony that is Iraq, which hangs so heavy in the vacuum between what you see and what you imagine.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Women soldiers in Iraq.
  • Lions (2012)
    Review preview for Lions

    Jazmin López’s debut feature is in narrative terms a bit too foggy to sustain one’s emotional engagement.

    Michael Pattison · 2.5 out of 5
    Five young people are lost in a forest - and perhaps in time itself.
  • Lion's Den (2008)
    Review preview for Lion's Den

    The strength of Pablo Trapero's sumptuous film, Argentina's Palme D'Or nominee, is the depth and breadth of its considerations.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Waking covered in blood in an apartment where one man is dead and another badly injured, with little memory and no alibi, a pregnant woman must learn to deal with imprisonment.
  • Lion Ark (2013)
    Review preview for Lion Ark

    More than anything, it is the lions who tell the story.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    When a law is passed forbidding animals to be kept by circuses in Bolivia, the animal welfare battle is just beginning.
  • Lipstick On Your Collar (1993)
    Review preview for Lipstick On Your Collar

    Potter succeeds here in providing a truly imaginative and artistically inspired piece of television and, while the series eludes the tangible success of his previous work, it embodies some of his best writing and brilliantly creative verve.

    Merlin Harries · 4 out of 5
    A Whitehall intelligence office clerk finds the Suez crisis can't compete with dreams of romance.
  • Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016)
    Review preview for Lipstick Under My Burkha

    Shrivastava balances the stories well and the skilled ensemble cast means that things always remain interesting, with no one story stealing attention from the others.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Four women search for freedom in small town India.
  • Lista de Espera (2000)
    Review preview for Lista de Espera

    A charming little piece of magical realist whimsy.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3.5 out of 5
    A group of Cubans create a socialist utopia when they are stranded in a bus station.
  • Listen To Me Marlon (2015)
    Review preview for Listen To Me Marlon

    Riley really does listen to Marlon and, by extension, encourages us to.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary uses first-person tapes to explore the life and career of Brando.
  • Listen Up Philip (2014)
    Review preview for Listen Up Philip

    The moments of distinctly sub-Woody Allenesque humour make you dream of what might have been.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    An angry writer and his relationships.
  • Literally, Right Before Aaron (2017)
    Review preview for Literally, Right Before Aaron

    As sweet as it is bitter.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Still reeling from his breakup with college sweetheart Allison, Adam's world is thrown into further chaos when he’s surprisingly invited to attend her wedding.
  • Little Ashes (2008)
    Review preview for Little Ashes

    Javier Beltrán is the real standout, delivering a performance that could easily have slipped into sentimentality with heartbreaking precision.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Biopic about Salvador Dali, filmmaker Luis Bunuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca.
  • A Little Chaos (2014)
    Review preview for A Little Chaos

    Too niche to reach

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A landscape gardener is employed by King Louis XIV to transform the gardens at Versailles.
  • Little Children (2006)
    Review preview for Little Children

    Brimming with superb performances.

    Steve Harwood · 4.5 out of 5
    The hopes, dreams and secrets of a group of young parents whose lives intersect in small-town America.
  • Little Deaths (2011)
    Review preview for Little Deaths

    Overall, each film boasts strong acting and well-written dramatic scenes, and a very polished look that belies what must have been very tight budgets.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A triptych of disturbing tales exploring interrelated themes of sex and death.
  • Little Dieter Needs To Fly (1997)
    Review preview for Little Dieter Needs To Fly

    This is one of Herzog's best documentaries, possibly because his subject matter strays close to the boundaries of fiction.

    Trinity · 3.5 out of 5
    The life of an extraordinary Vietnam war hero.
  • The Little Hours (2017)
    Review preview for The Little Hours

    The piecemeal nature of Giovanni Boccaccio’s source material only adds to the sketch show feel, with as many moments missing the mark as hitting it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    When a runaway slave takes shelter at a convent, sexual shenanigans ensue.
  • Little Indi (2009)
    Review preview for Little Indi

    Recha depicts a hardscrabble existence but finds fleeting moments of beauty, affection, and pleasure by focussing on the things that truly matter to Arnau.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    Living on the outskirts of Barcelona, Arnau raises a menagerie of songbirds and tries to accumulate the funds to hire a lawyer for his imprisoned mother.
  • Little Manhattan (2005)
    Review preview for Little Manhattan

    Kicking off with a fine one-two of gags, inventive credits and intelligently paced laughs, Little Manhattan thankfully has a deliberate game plan.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    The spirit of The Wonder Years lives on in another New York rom-com.
  • Little Men (2016)
    Review preview for Little Men

    The film could be called "old fashioned" but that is rarely a bad thing.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Caught up in a family feud over rent, two boys respond with a vow of silence.
  • Little Otik (2000)
    Review preview for Little Otik

    Severely patience-trying.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2 out of 5
    Grotesque take on the story of the little wooden boy.
  • The Little Polar Bear (2001)
    Review preview for The Little Polar Bear

    Slowly charm infuses sentiment and the film wins you over.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The animated adventures of a polar bear cub and his baby seal friend.
  • The Little Polar Bear 2 (2005)
    Review preview for The Little Polar Bear 2

    What destroys your will to live is the story and the characters.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    More animated adventures with the cutesy ice bear.
  • The Little Prince (2015)
    Review preview for The Little Prince

    Mark Osborne's gently unfolding palimpsest of a film is a sweet tribute to generations of readers who have been enchanted by the prince.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A girl's life is transformed when she learns the story of a pilot who once crashed in the desert and met a little boy from a distant planet.
  • Little Red Flowers (2006)
    Review preview for Little Red Flowers

    Emphasises knickers, bare bums, baby penises, nakedness and bodily functions to a disturbing degree.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A rebellious three-year-old causes havoc in a state-run kindergarten in post-revolutionary China.
  • Little Soldier (2008)
    Review preview for Little Soldier

    Little Soldier makes us face some of the hardest questions we may never want to answer.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A psychologically damaged soldier returns from war and becomes a chauffeur for her father's prostitutes, finding frienship in an unlikely place.
  • The Little Soldier (1963)
    Review preview for The Little Soldier

    The film is harrowing at times to watch, and Godard, even in this, his second feature, is sacrificing entertainment to art.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    Musings on the fate of noble men in war.
  • A Little Trip To Heaven (2005)
    Review preview for A Little Trip To Heaven

    Director Baltasar Kormakur’s gripping thriller is inspired by classic noir - the cinematography is as bleak as the story and there is no neat happy ending.

    Leanne McGrath · 3.5 out of 5
    An insurance investigator probes the suspicious death of a conman whose sister and dodgy hubby inherit $1million after his demise.
  • The Little Vampire (2000)
    Review preview for The Little Vampire

    Jonathan Lipnicki is atypical of child stars in the sense that he can be quite annoying.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    American kid in Scotland makes friends with vampire boy.
  • The Lives Of The Saints (2006)
    Review preview for The Lives Of The Saints

    A breath of fresh air for the British film industry.

    Darren Amner · 3.5 out of 5
    A small boy grants wishes, but what should people wish for?
  • Live And Let Die (1973)
    Review preview for Live And Let Die

    Overall, Live And Let Die is a rather sleazy affair, and not always in a good way.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    James Bond is dispatched to investigate the mysterious deaths of several British agents.
  • Live Cargo (2016)
    Review preview for Live Cargo

    Hemingway and Stanfield are both good in the central roles, with Howze charismatic as the antagonist on the fringes of the island community, but the film never really takes off the way it should.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A couple try to recover from a tragic loss on the island where one of them grew up.
  • Live Forever (2002)
    Review preview for Live Forever

    I was truly taken aback by the supreme quality of every aspect of this production.

    Lottie Oaktrees · 5 out of 5
    Britpop: a look back at the bubbles and bursts.
  • Live To Remember (2008)
    Review preview for Live To Remember

    If you like your Dickens dark, your Hardy harsh or your Bronte brutal, you’ll definitely warm to this.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    When a husband deserts the war, her wife finds she must hide him - but their secret threatens them both.
  • Livid (2011)
    Review preview for Livid

    There's a loneliness, a melancholy at the heart of Livid that is truly haunting.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A trainee carer's scheme to rob a comatose patient's house by night triggers supernatural horrors.
  • Living Hell (2000)
    Review preview for Living Hell

    Quickly becomes tiresome viewing.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2 out of 5
    Japanese hybrid of American and Italian horror.
  • Living On Love Alone (2010)
    Review preview for Living On Love Alone

    The film's action ultimately moves to a borderland between not just France and Spain, but also crime thriller and love story, dreams and reality.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A relationship with a daring young actor offers a young woman escape from the tedium of her nine to five job.
  • Living Out Loud (1998)
    Review preview for Living Out Loud

    They say this is based on a couple of Chekhov's shorter prose works. If so, everything was lost in translation.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    An abandoned NYC wife, tries to rebuild her life.

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