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  • The King's Man (2021)
    Review preview for The King's Man

    From a technical standpoint, Vaughn and the cinematographer Ben Davies outdo themselves.

    Antoni Konieczny · 3 out of 5
    In the early years of the 20th century, the Kingsman agency is formed to stand against a cabal plotting a war to wipe out millions.
  • Kinsey (2004)
    Review preview for Kinsey

    Condon lightens the academic atmosphere with an entertaining montage of interview sessions.

    The Exile · 4 out of 5
    The life and ideas of a scientist who believed in sexual healing.
  • Knight And Day (2010)
    Review preview for Knight And Day

    It all feels too professional, too clean, too choreographed.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    A car mechanic finds herself on the run with an AWOL Superspy.
  • Koko-di Koko-da (2019)
    Review preview for Koko-di Koko-da

    We don't see the much of the immediate aftermath of death here, but instead are treated to the way grief can linger, catching anger and guilt in its wake

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorsing them, luring them deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror.
  • Kursk: The Last Mission (2018)
    Review preview for Kursk: The Last Mission

    While the tension of the build up to the initial disaster on the submarine is well-handled, Vinterberg struggles to dovetail that with his other plot lines.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Retelling of the Kursk submarine disaster.
  • Kon-Tiki (2012)
    Review preview for Kon-Tiki

    Although there are no truly outstanding performances, neither are there any weak ones in what is essentially an ensemble piece.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Re-telling of anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl’s transformational 1947 journey by raft from Peru to Polynesia.
  • Koza (2015)
    Review preview for Koza

    Its refusal to treat fights as spectacle, together with its austere editing and static camera, provides a melancholic grounding.

    Luke Shaw · 4 out of 5
    A boxer comes out of retirement to help his girlfriend pay for an abortion.
  • K-Pax (2001)
    Review preview for K-Pax

    A beautiful film about family, connecting with others and finding the meaning in life.

    Stephen Carty · 5 out of 5
    A psychiatrist takes on a patient whose claim that he is from outer space is surprisingly convincing.
  • Ktown Cowboys (2015)
    Review preview for Ktown Cowboys

    How much it appeals to you will depend on how you relate to its lead characters - but despite its focus on their ethnicity, there may be bigger cultural barriers for many viewers to get past.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A group of friends spend a night partying in Koreatown.
  • Labour Equals Freedom (2005)
    Review preview for Labour Equals Freedom

    I enjoyed this film for its bittersweet realness and comedic situations.

    Max Blinkhorn · 3.5 out of 5
    Mid-life crises and marital breakdown in Slovenia.
  • Lace Crater (2015)
    Review preview for Lace Crater

    Lace Crater shows no more respect for genre than it does for the (meta)physics of ghost sex, and this is one of its strengths.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A woman encounters a strange presence in a guest house.
  • Lair Of The White Worm (1988)
    Review preview for Lair Of The White Worm

    As with so much of Russell's work, the film is let down by atrocious editing and tries to excuse its own failures with a desperate humour that only sometimes works.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    An archaeologist discovers that an ancient snake cult may not be as dead as he thought.
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
    Review preview for Last Exit to Brooklyn

    Though unrelentingly bleak, Last Exit to Brooklyn presents a fascinating slice of American history.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Love and self-destruction amid union corruption in Fifties New York.
  • The Last Legion (2007)
    Review preview for The Last Legion

    There's a proper sense of adventure and the scale of the story is appropriate for a great legend. Unfortunately the sword it all revolves around looks as if it came from Poundstretcher.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    As a young emperor flees the fall of Rome, he encounters a mysterious sword which will shape his destiny.
  • The Last Rites Of Ransom Pride (2009)
    Review preview for The Last Rites Of Ransom Pride

    A rather dull action Western.

    Scott Macdonald · 1.5 out of 5
    Outrageous comedy Western about a young woman taking her murdered lover back to his home to be buried.
  • The Last Train (2003)
    Review preview for The Last Train

    Much of the impact of the film comes from cues, visual and aural, away from the action.

    Trinity · 4 out of 5
    All quiet on the Eastern Front.
  • Laura's Star (2004)
    Review preview for Laura's Star

    The audience has to let go to. It's the only way.

    Stephanie Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A sulky girl learns to smile again when she makes friends with a fallen star.
  • Law And Order: The Fifth Year (1994)
    Review preview for Law And Order: The Fifth Year

    A must-have for crime drama junkies.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Chris Noth's last series in the fifth outing of what will become the longest running TV drama
  • Legends Of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013)
    Review preview for Legends Of Oz: Dorothy's Return

    It ranks in the higher echelons of the second division for the quality of its animation and vocal support

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Dorothy finds herself whisked back to Oz.
  • Lesbian Psycho (2002)
    Review preview for Lesbian Psycho

    A nightmare in a damaged brain, using an imagination no more, nor less, disturbed than our own.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    Camping for girls ends in slashfest.
  • Leviathan: The Story Of Hellraiser And Hellbound: Hellraiser II (2015)
    Review preview for Leviathan: The Story Of Hellraiser And Hellbound: Hellraiser II

    The impression it is gives is that absolutely everything recorded has been included, with nothing left on the cutting room floor.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A documentary about Clive Barker and the first two Hellraiser films.
  • Life (2015)
    Review preview for Life

    Drifts dangerously close to irrelevance.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    An ambitious young photographer takes pictures of an unknown actor in the hope of selling them to Life magazine. The actor's name is James Dean.
  • The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers (2004)
    Review preview for The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers

    Schizophrenic in its approach and vicious in its intent.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Critical biopic of The Goon Show master-of-voices who became a Hollywood movie star.
  • Lift (2002)
    Man suffers phone difficulties in lift.
  • Lilith (1964)
    Review preview for Lilith

    The clear highpoint of Lilith is Seberg’s performance which carries the picture along.

    Merlin Harries · 3 out of 5
    A troubled ex-soldier takes a job as a counsellor at a mental institution and finds himself falling for a patient.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Ladykillers (1955)
    Review preview for The Ladykillers

    The architecture of the film - and buildings and angles are an integral part of why it works so well - rests upon the twin pillars of Katie Johnson and Alec Guinness.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Criminals find their heist plot foiled by a little old lady.
  • Lake Michigan Monster (2018)
    Review preview for Lake Michigan Monster

    Loosely assembled from cardboard, string and panache.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    An eccentric ship captain and a crew of specialists plot revenge against a mysterious creature of the deep.
  • Lassie (2005)
    Review preview for Lassie

    Plotless, fluffy, pseudo-sentimental rubbish.

    Kotleta · 1 out of 5
    The world's most famous dog has an adventure in wartime Britain.
  • The Last Seduction (1993)
    Review preview for The Last Seduction

    One of the qualities of The Last Seduction is its denial of pastiche.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A tough, sexy New Yorker goes on the run with drugs money she stole from her husband.
  • The Last Viking (2025)
    Review preview for The Last Viking

    At times it feels as if Jensen is trying to spin too many plates at once, but in the moments when it all comes together, it’s a delight to watch.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Black comedy about a man hunting for the spoils from a heist with his brother... who can't remember where it is buried.
  • Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
    Review preview for Lawrence Of Arabia

    What remains true now, as it was then, is the scale and scope of the thing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    A biopic of TE Lawrence focused on role in the Arab/Turkish conflict during the First World War.
  • Layer Cake (2004)
    Review preview for Layer Cake

    The latest piece of gangland roughage is suitably violent, with a who-gives-a-monkeys attitude.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Cockney drug dealer become enmeshed in gang war over stolen happy pills.
  • The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
    Review preview for The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

    The character-based comedy mostly works as well as it does on the show, but the laboured and frequently infantile storylines make the film fall flat on its face when it's not half way up its own arse.

    Scott Macdonald · 2.5 out of 5
    Convoluted comedy from TV-based series that questions the meaning of reality.
  • Leave (2022)
    Review preview for Leave

    Well structured and benefiting from appropriately moody cinematography by Sjur Aarthun, the film is ably carried by the German-born von Rittberg.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A young woman who was abandoned in a graveyard as a baby goes looking for her roots in rural Norway and gets more than she bargained for.
  • The Legend Of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Review preview for The Legend Of Bagger Vance

    Damon has a problem playing down-and-outs. He's so clean cut, three days' growth doesn't fool anyone.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A mythical caddie helps a down-on-his luck golfer.
  • Let Him Have It (1991)
    Review preview for Let Him Have It

    Christopher Ecclestone has rarely been better .

    James Benefield · 4 out of 5
    True story of Derek Bentley, sentenced to death for a bungled robbery.
  • Let The Right One In (2008)
    Review preview for Let The Right One In

    It is frequently not what you see but what you hear which holds the horror.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    A touching story of first romance... with a side-serving of horror.
  • Liberation (2022)
    Review preview for Liberation

    The film is replete with tension, and director Anders Walter incorporates some nerve-racking sequences.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A family faces difficult choices when a small Danish town is left in charge of hundreds of weak and hungry German refugees at the end of World War Two.
  • Life After Flash (2017)
    Review preview for Life After Flash

    The presence of completists and super-fans is helpful, because you do not need to be either to enjoy Life After Flash.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A look at the life of Sam J Jones, who played Flash Gordon in the 1980 version of the fantasy classic.
  • The Life And Deaths Of Christopher Lee (2024)
    Review preview for The Life And Deaths Of Christopher Lee

    Director Jon Spira does a surprisingly thorough job, and although he isn’t able to go into depth with much of the material, this is a solid start for those interested in exploring further.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Genre icon Christopher Lee is brought back to life in a documentary using fresh interviews, archive material and multiple forms of traditional and cutting-edge animation.
  • Lightyear (2022)
    Review preview for Lightyear

    Essentially, what we're getting here is Buzz's origin story, which is all well and good but episodic.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    The film that spawned Andy's 'favourite' toy.
  • The Limey (1999)
    Review preview for The Limey

    Lem Dobbs's script is chrome-plated - flashy dialogue and a storyline that goes off the rails.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An old lag sets out to avenge his daughter's death.
  • Lions For Lambs (2007)
    Review preview for Lions For Lambs

    Worthy, without being worth watching.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Two US soldiers in Afghanistan are placed in jeopardy as politicians, journalists and academics battle it out back home.
  • The Lion In Winter (1968)
    Review preview for The Lion In Winter

    The Lion In Winter is a film made stunning by the performances of Hepburn and O'Toole. They both thrive on James Goldman's tight script.

    Keith Dudhnath · 4.5 out of 5
    Henry II chooses an heir, while all those around him plot.

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