Lakeview Terrace Reviews
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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 reviewA conventional suspense thriller, but the details kick it up a notch.
Read the full reviewDelivers fairly tense and engrossing drama before succumbing to thriller convention.
Read the full reviewIn pandering to Hollywood standards about how stories like this should unfold, LaBute has lost his edge.
Read the full reviewAnyone who has ever had an annoying neighbor will see their worst nightmares fulfilled in the overheated but entertaining Lakeview Terrace.
Read the full reviewThe 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 reviewJackson 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 reviewA 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 reviewUltimately, 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 reviewThe 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 reviewThe movie might have something to say about black racism, but the conversations go nowhere, and the cliches of the genre take over.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 46
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