Lakeview Terrace Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The movie might have something to say about black racism, but the conversations go nowhere, and the cliches of the genre take over.Read the full review
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
Jackson is the best thing here.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
In pandering to Hollywood standards about how stories like this should unfold, LaBute has lost his edge.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
A conventional suspense thriller, but the details kick it up a notch.Read the full review
The film, absent a sense of place and populated by repellent or weak characters, soon devolves into an increasingly foul litany of events.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
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
