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Look
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OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
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79
Visitor, The
78
Counterfeiters, The
76
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76
Stuff and Dough
75
Young@Heart
75
Shotgun Stories
74
Witnesses, The
73
Duchess of Langeais, The
72
Roman de gare
72
Priceless
72
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72
Life of Reilly, The
71
My Brother Is an Only Child
71
Blindsight
71
Standard Operating Procedure
70
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69
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69
Chicago 10
68
Honeydripper
67
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67
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67
Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The
67
Jellyfish
66
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
66
Shelter
65
Married Life
64
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64
Son of Rambow
64
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63
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63
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
63
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63
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62
Planet B-Boy
62
Battle for Haditha
61
Dhamma Brothers, The
61
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
61
Girls Rock!
59
Under the Same Moon
59
Fugitive Pieces
58
First Saturday in May, The
58
Fall, The
58
Hats Off
58
Bra Boys
57
Flawless
57
Teeth
57
Without the King
57
Grand, The
56
Turn the River
56
Then She Found Me
55
Vice
55
Tracey Fragments, The
55
Pathology
55
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
54
Cashback
54
Mister Lonely
52
My Blueberry Nights
50
Look
49
Noise
48
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48
Dark Matter
48
Penelope
47
Bella
47
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46
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45
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45
Zombie Strippers
44
Frontier(s)
44
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44
Previous Engagement, A
43
Anamorph
43
Favor, The
41
Funny Games
40
Sleepwalking
37
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35
Meet Bill
35
Babysitters, The
35
Deal
32
Backseat
32
Chapter 27
30
Cover
24
Sex and Death 101
20
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
17
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xx
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xx
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xx
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for action violence and some sensuality
Starring
Angelina Jolie,
Daniel Craig,
Leslie Phillips,
Mark Collie,
Iain Glen,
and
Jon Voight
The fate of mankind rests in the hands of one Lara Croft (Jolie), a twenty-first century heroine inspired by the most popular interactive video character in history. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Mystery
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Patrick Massett
John Zinman
Simon West
Michael Colleary, Laeta Kalogridis and Mike Werb
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Simon West
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 13, 2001
Video: November 13, 2001
Theatrical: June 15, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
So monumentally silly, yet so wondrous to look at, that only a churl could find fault.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Rather than the mad, kinetic video-game vigor you'd expect, the movie proceeds at a more leisurely and methodical gait. I rather liked that.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
She's (Jolie) the most amazing special effect in movies. The best thing in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a bungee-jumping ballet that Lara performs late at night in her mansion, soaring high and low in Japanese silk pajamas and with her hair pulled tightly back.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
As cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable.
60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Unafraid to look absurd but lacks the self-conviction needed to come off as camp.

50
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Ultimately, Jolie's efforts to establish a character are dashed against the film's increasingly inane dialogue.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
This is just cut-rate, generic daughter of Indy Jones hokum.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
I realize fantasy-based action movies aren't supposed to be as complex as William Gibson's novels. But do they have to be this simple-minded?

50
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
Couldn’t have arrived at a better time: movies have been so bad lately that audiences are positively starving for something mediocre.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A by-the-numbers extravanganza that journeys from London to Venice to Siberia to Cambodia without ever really going anywhere.
50
Miami Herald
Cary Darling
The relevant question is: does it rock? And the answer, unfortunately, is no.
50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
There's no clear plot, no memorable villains, no real logic. But there sure is action.
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Has all the appeal of a video game without the joystick. All you can do is watch. It's noisy and moves fast, but if you can't play, why pay?

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's all about action and ogling -- Jolie's boobs, butt and thighs get so much screen time they deserve their own credits.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
If only the story that surrounds this watchable heroine were as well-stacked.

42
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The opportunity to give Jolie the room to swagger like the "Charlie's Angels" or "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" ladies is utterly squandered, and a video game franchise that might've resulted in a hoot of a film -- has been blown to dust.

40
Film.com
Gemma Files
She's not a real person, in any way, shape or form -- which makes watching Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the first in a projected series of live-action films based around her exploits, a visually spectacular yet oddly cheerless experience.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Game boys and girls will be disappointed by this fast-paced but shockingly dull adaptation.
30
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Has the distinction of being a major motion picture that's far less imaginative, and quite a bit more stupid, than the interactive game it's based on.

30
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Slick-dick director Simon West, of "Con Air" and "The General's Daughter" infamy, continues to show no flair at all for blending action and character. Jolie and Lara deserved better. So did we.

30
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Such an inept bundle of work -- crying out for the filmmaking equivalent of Ritalin, but still sluggish as syrup -- that it doesn't even provide an opportunity to ogle properly.

30
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Sitting through the lavish and dumb action spectacular Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is about as much fun as watching someone else play a video game.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
These are good moments, and there are a few others, that prevent Tomb Raider from being one of the worst films of the year. But they're not enough to make it worth seeing.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Since the expensive new movie version of the popular video game, Tomb Raider, is very true to its origins, it's a colossal bore.

25
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A staggeringly bad picture: a shallow, cliche-ridden mess that keeps blowing up on screen.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The effects are cheesy, the photography is murky, the sets look like leftovers from a Las Vegas stage spectacular -- and the flick appears to have been edited with a roulette wheel.
20
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Remarkably joyless, even though Ms. Jolie is a formidable presence with the potential for becoming a witty one.
20
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Almost completely lacking in genuine thrills. Even the attractive presence of star Angelina Jolie can't keep this leaden, plodding, completely underwhelming film from playing like "Lara Croft: Yawn Inducer."

20
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
So pandering and pebble-brained you'd guess it had been test-screened on barnyard animals.

10
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It is the perfect modern product: loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The game is great fun -- the movie ought to be taken out back and shot.


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