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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Benten Films
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Benten Films
  • 1 h 21 m

Summary Alex, Tim, and Chris view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone, as they struggle to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life. This up-to-the-second feature intimately explores masculinity in the new millennium, a time when young men are tryin...

Directed By: Joe Swanberg

Written By: Kevin Bewersdorf, C. Mason Wells, Joe Swanberg

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Benten Films
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Benten Films
  • 1 h 21 m

LOL

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary Alex, Tim, and Chris view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone, as they struggle to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life. This up-to-the-second feature intimately explores masculinity in the new millennium, a time when young men are tryin...

Directed By: Joe Swanberg

Written By: Kevin Bewersdorf, C. Mason Wells, Joe Swanberg

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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90
The characters are a bit too OCD for LOL to work as the definitive commentary on technology and human relationships that it strives to be...But the movie is unusually attentive to the ironies of communications technology.
By Joshua Land FULL REVIEW
80
For non-actors, everyone in this film really pulls their character off extremely well.
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75
Joe Swanberg - who directed, edited, lensed, co-wrote and played one of the lovelorn characters - has done wonders with a nothing budget and a personable cast of nonprofessional actors. For viewers so disposed, there are several arty shots of nude women.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
63
Scruffy, loosely structured and piercingly perceptive about the ways in which technology that supposedly brings people together actually keeps them apart.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
60
Authentic in texture if narrow in scope, LOL is a movie about the way we live -- or rather about the way white, urban, heterosexual circuit boys are failing to live.
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 User Ratings
3.1
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38% Mixed
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50% Negative
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 User Ratings
3.1
13% Positive
1 Rating
38% Mixed
3 Ratings
50% Negative
4 Ratings

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Release Date Aug 23, 2006
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.lolthemovie.com/
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