"Lake Placid" David E. Kelley's first major feature hits some bumps but serves up one hell of a croc.
By Andrew O'Hehir [July 15, 1999]

"The Last Days of Disco" Laura Miller reviews 'The Last Days of Disco,' directed by Whit Stillman and starring Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale and Chris Eigeman
By Laura Miller [May 28, 1998]

"Late August, Early September" Idealism gives way to compromise for a group of frustrated friends in Olivier Assayas' modest yet moving new film.
By Charles Taylor [July 6, 1999]

"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" This clunker is so inept, it doesn't even provide an opportunity to ogle Angelina Jolie properly.
By Charles Taylor [June 15, 2000]

"Legally Blonde" Confident, curvy Reese Witherspoon, the thinking man's cupcake, nearly salvages this silly romance.
By Stephanie Zacharek [July 13, 2001]

"The Legend of Bagger Vance" Driving Matt Damon: Will Smith totes the race bags around Robert Redford's wussy, manicured golf movie.
By Stephanie Zacharek [November 3, 2000]

"Legend of 1900" Giuseppe Tornatore's tale of a ship-bound piano virtuoso drowns in its own treacle.
By Jeff Stark [November 1, 1999]

"Les Miserables" Charles Taylor reviews 'Les Miserables,' directed by Bille August and starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman and Claire Danes
By Charles Taylor [May 1, 1998]

"Life is Beautiful" The unbearable lightness of Benigni: Roberto Benigni's comic fable about one family's struggle to survive in a Nazi concentration camp is in offensively poor taste.
By Charles Taylor [October 30, 1998]

"Limbo" John Sayles invents another place where you really don't want to spend much time.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams [June 3, 1999]

"The Limey" Director Steven Soderbergh's stylish art noir runs between cheap L.A. motels and hip icons of '60s cool.
By Charles Taylor [October 6, 1999]

"Little Nicky" Adam Sandler deserves to be damned to the pits of hell for this witless masturbatory comedy.
By Charles Taylor [November 10, 2000]

"Little Voice" I feel a song coming on: Jane Horrocks saves the annoyingly noisy 'Little Voice' with uncanny impressions of Garland, Dietrich and Monroe
By Charles Taylor [December 4, 1998]

"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" A transatlantic crime caper arrives in America jetlagged.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams [March 5, 1999]

"Lolita" Adrian Lyne's "Lolita" is too timid and tasteful to be very good, but it's still the target of censors and hysterics.
By Charles Taylor [April 30, 1998]

"Loser" Amy Heckerling's college comedy makes a big-city sweetie out of a small-town kid. But when did the director get so bitter?
By Charles Taylor [July 21, 2000]

"The Loss of Sexual Innocence" Mike Figgis' stylistically extreme sexual autobiography may be a failure, but at least it fails shamelessly.
By Charles Taylor [May 27, 1999]

"Lost Highway" "Lost Highway" shows only glimmers of David Lynch at his disturbing best.
By Stephanie Zacharek [February 28, 1997]

"Lost Souls" The Antichrist wears Dolce & Gabbana and the clock reads 6:66. Oooh! Scary!
By Dwight Garner [October 13, 2000]

"Love and Death on Long Island" Charles Taylor reviews 'Love and Death on Long Island' directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring John Hurt and Jason Priestly.
By Charles Taylor [March 13, 1998]

"Love and Sex"In a beguiling new romance from a spiritual cousin to Preston Sturges, Cupid shoots a wobbly arrow up into the air.
By Stephanie Zacharek [09/01/00]

"Lovers on the Bridge" French filmmaker Léos Carax romanticizes the sleaze and squalor of Paris street life.
By Charles Taylor [June 28, 1999]

"The Love Letter" Unsigned, sealed and delivered: The WASPy lovestruck prose of "The Love Letter" maddens the citizens of Loblolly-by-the-Sea.
By Andrew O'Hehir [May 20, 1999]

"Lucky Numbers" Nora Ephron's devious little lottery comedy wades in its own amorality -- and that's a good thing.
By Stephanie Zacharek [October 27, 2000]