Until the last fifteen minutes of the film when LaBute ceases to challenge us, but rather aggravates circumstances to the predictable nature of Hollywood potboilers, there’s much to admire.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Jackson portrays the primary antagonist with a truly gleeful menace.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Jackson is much more menacing when he is quietly insinuating than when he reaches for his gun, and Lakeview Terrace is much more disturbing before the film's corrosive racial resentment and hatred spills into actual violence.

| Nov 15, 2020

A modestly entertaining action/thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

The material is right in LaBute's wheelhouse, but the director can't get the same sizzle he delivered in his previous work. As a result, the movie falls into a rut of one tedious confrontation after another.

| Original Score: C | Oct 15, 2019

Alas, LaBute loses it entirely in the third and final act, when he yields entirely to genre convention and allows it all to explode into a shoot-out of the utmost silliness.

| Feb 1, 2018

An intense drama about neighbors who can't get along.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 19, 2017

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Isn't much fun either as social commentary or procedural guignol.

| Aug 15, 2011

| Original Score: C | May 6, 2011

| Original Score: B | Dec 31, 2010

Lakeview Terrace isn't anywhere as wacky as LaBute's Wicker Man remake, yet the two reveal an artist too caught up with his misanthropic conceits to notice the ridiculous humor in them.

| Aug 26, 2009

This angry black man wants a 'chocolate drop' of his own -- yes, 'chocolate drop' is actually used in this film! However, it's such a weak movie that you won't get offended.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 3, 2009

It's ironic when the tactics it uses to ratchet up the suspense actually reduces the very real tension that gets communicated in its first half.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 12, 2009

As a thriller, it's passable, but at what point do we say to director Neil LaBute, "Enough already with the misogynistic themes"?

Full Review | Original Score: 66/100 | Jan 21, 2009

The race-baiting thriller Lakeview Terrace is exactly what you would expect from a screenplay by a Hollywood hack and an established playwright: some sharp dialogue grafted onto a credibility-stretching and familiar plot. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 20, 2009

Lakeview Terrace is not a hit by any means, but it is a lot better than Jackson's last film Snakes on a Plane and much improved for director Neil LaBute, known for his previous work on The Wicker Man.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2009