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It's definitely an original and daring work of art, intense, exciting, fun and clever. However, I must say that this might not be my kind of film. That's the only reason I can't rate it higher. Other people might consider it just wonderful, but I...
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It's definitely an original and daring work of art, intense, exciting, fun and clever. However, I must say that this might not be my kind of film. That's the only reason I can't rate it higher. Other people might consider it just wonderful, but I see no more than just a fun, different picture.

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Posted sep 6, 2007 7:44 am pt

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Good movie. Full with some action and with some suspense, that makes itself into a great movie. I think that it is something I should talk about, since this movie is different of what I used to watch, and I must say that the storyline and the plot...
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Good movie. Full with some action and with some suspense, that makes itself into a great movie. I think that it is something I should talk about, since this movie is different of what I used to watch, and I must say that the storyline and the plot was really different of what I am used to watch.

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Posted feb 3, 2007 1:38 am pt

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A genius movie that explores the premise that just a second or two of difference can make all the difference not just in your life, but in the lives of people encounter, with fortunes changing drastically. Tasked with meeting her boyfriend across...
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A genius movie that explores the premise that just a second or two of difference can make all the difference not just in your life, but in the lives of people encounter, with fortunes changing drastically. Tasked with meeting her boyfriend across town in but 20 minutes, and along the way coming up with several thousand marks in currency to replace drug money he lost, Lola sets out to do what she can. The near-constant pulse-pounding beat and European techno on the soundtrack keeps your heart racing with anticipation. Smart and intriguing flash-fowards show how the lives of those she meets are changed, for better or worse, from their run-in with Lola. As the story comes to its conclusion, it starts again, with Lola delayed just a second or two at the start, with her path altered ever so slightly, as are the flash-forwards. A final third act shows the story unfold if Lola is just a second or two quicker at the start. All-in-all, it's a great action film, with a few humorous and romantic moments thrown in, and it's so good the German language with English sustitles doesn't really distract from the good time.

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Posted jan 27, 2007 8:16 pm pt

• [+] Washington Post
  
  100
  Fabulously kinetic.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  100
  Tykwer's style gives the movie an explosive energy that never quits, marking him as the most ingenious new talent to hail from Germany in ages.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  100
  As essential in its own way as Anton Karas' celebrated zither work was to "The Third Man," Lola's music is perfectly suited to the film's aims and just about addictive in its throbbing, insinuating rhythms.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  An existential chain reaction, yet as remarkable as his cinematic gamesmanship is the way that he traces the anatomy of feeling in Lola.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  100
  I can't rave about this film enough -- this is passionate filmmaking at its best. One of the best foreign films, heck, one of the best films I have seen this year -- go see it!

  by Chris Gore | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  91
  The formula has rarely been done as well as it is in this goofy, audacious, visually stylized omnibus of what-ifs that operates on its own peculiar logic, and powers along with the force of a truck on the Autobahn.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  90
  With her Doc Martens and her spiky, fire-engine hair, Franka Potente makes a perfect Lola. Like the film itself, her tough, flashy exterior cloaks a warm emotional center.

  by Andrea C. Basora | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  90
  A highly accomplished, compact feature, which, while it may be light on depth, is rich in humor, rhythm, energy and inventiveness.

  by David Rooney | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  90
  A movie that really zips along; it offers some of the same pleasures as the silent slapstick comedies, particularly the Keaton films, with their sense of how sheer velocity carries its own wit.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  90
  MTV, comic books and gangster flicks are all in Lola's cinematic family tree; it's a heady, breathless ride.

  by Ernest Hardy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  90
  The kind of thing Franz Kafka might have dreamed up, had he only had access to a daily dose of MTV.

  by Gemma Files | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  88
  A knock-down, haywire ballad of the adrenalinization of love and despair.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  88
  Has as much depth as it has energy and action.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  80
  It doesn’t add up to much, which is part of the point as well as the fun, but what makes the film noteworthy is its pure pop adrenaline.

  by Manohla Dargis | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  80
  The film's extra-special trick, the one that kicks in under your radar because it's so busy with all the flash, is that it makes you care deeply for Lola and Manni.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »