Lakeview Terrace Critic Reviews

I find movies like this alive and provoking, and I'm exhilarated to have my thinking challenged at every step of the way.Read the full review

A conventional suspense thriller, but the details kick it up a notch.Read the full review

Delivers fairly tense and engrossing drama before succumbing to thriller convention.Read the full review

A passable piece of hackwork, with some adequately suspenseful passages and a few mild shocks near the end. But the psychological dimensions of the story are so risible, and its supposed insights into race and class so wrongheaded and ugly, that irritation trumps enjoyment.Read the full review

Anyone who has ever had an annoying neighbor will see their worst nightmares fulfilled in the overheated but entertaining Lakeview Terrace.Read the full review

Jackson modulates Abel's internal turmoil and heated exchanges with enough shades of loneliness, steely generosity and wicked playfulness to give the actor firm control of our fascination and growing unease.Read the full review

The main problem with this treatise on racial politics undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil LaBute, didn't write the script.Read the full review

In pandering to Hollywood standards about how stories like this should unfold, LaBute has lost his edge.Read the full review

Ultimately, Lakeview Terrace isn't about race so much as it's about being a man, which has been LaBute's fallback theme from the start.Read the full review