| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2003

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2002

A meditation on fidelity in marriage where the suspense and surprises stem from who has -- or hasn't -- been betraying each other and how.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2002

A perceptive, powerfully acted psychodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 3, 2002

The emotional experience of "Lantana" is heightened by its marvelous ensemble cast, all of whom etch a character in relatively brief screen time.

| Jan 25, 2002

Solving the mystery of the dead body would be enough for most Hollywood movies. In Lantana, it's merely a device to launch us into more rewarding explorations.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2002

Lantana is so rich in secondary characters and performances it's hard to mention them all. But you will certainly appreciate them.

| Jan 25, 2002

The thorns in this film prick real blood, the color of which too few films can or care to examine. It is fine stuff indeed.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 25, 2002

The film is as dense as its namesake, and it reminds us how few contemporary thrillers are adult.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 25, 2002

Has a refreshingly keen ability to see everything from multiple angles.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 24, 2002

A psychological thriller that emphasizes the psychology over the thrills. It's a smart, heart-twisting picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2002

If some of the connections stretch credulity, an exquisite ensemble cast ... inhabit their characters with a subtle authenticity.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2002

It sounds pretty bleak. It is. And it's slow. But it's not bleak as in despairing and dull.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 24, 2002

Remarkably non-bummer viewing. Bleak as its outlook is, it's not so much psychodrama as psychocomedy of manners.

| Jan 18, 2002

After seeing [LaPaglia] in Lantana, no one will ever look at him without recognizing an actor of the first rank.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 18, 2002

A sensitive essay that dearly wants to be a feature film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 18, 2002

What's surprising is how easy it is to follow the plot, and how the coincidences don't get in the way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 18, 2002

Mr. LaPaglia, Ms. Armstrong, Mr. Rush and Ms. Hershey invest their roles with a profound humanity.

| Jan 3, 2002

Neither writer nor director supply good reasons why these miserable moderns do what they do. But this leaves the actors to do what they like. And in this, Lantana blooms with talent.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 22, 2001