While it could have easily been a pretty great Lifetime movie of the week, what LILA & EVE has going for it is that it's not what you expect.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 1, 2017

So okay, Lila & Eve is basically a Lifetime movie with better production values, or Fight Club starring middle-aged ladies (an improvement, if you ask me). But [Viola] Davis' performance just destroyed me.

| Aug 22, 2017

Lila & Eve has all the makings of a cult hit.

| Jun 28, 2017

The footage rolls to an ending that is satisfying and makes the time it takes to watch this crime thriller evolve worth the effort. Lila & Eve will someday be a great cable movie. For right now it is a compelling indie film.

| Mar 15, 2017

...tumbles off the rails long before the end credits roll.

| Original Score: 10/20 | Oct 24, 2016

Lila & Eve embraces its psychological thrills rather than action, but it never fully commits to what that decision entails.

| Original Score: C | Feb 22, 2016

There's no saving a high-voltage revenge drama that relies on selfies for its big reveal.

| Original Score: D | Jan 2, 2016

Learning by doing, the avenging angels roll up on some thugs in a convenience store parking lot, infiltrate a hot dance club and home-invade a high-rise apartment; they also find time to wallpaper Lila's living room (Eve is an interior decorator, see).

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2015

The script could have dealt seriously with issues of urban violence and struggling mothers, but instead it's a trivial tale of female empowerment.

| Aug 21, 2015

Davis (who was an executive producer on the film) gives a strong performance, as if she were acting in one of those many prestige projects lighting up her resume. It's a noble try, but this dreck is beyond saving.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 14, 2015

Revenge thriller packs violent punch but lacks excitement.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2015

Alas, even a promising premise and a fine actress like Davis can't save an increasingly ludicrous plot. Justice may be served, but screenwriting logic? Not so much.

| Original Score: C | Jul 21, 2015

So far, this is the worst film of 2015.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2015

Or rather, Dirty Harriet. A movie with raw emotion but bold women badly scripted by male filmmakers. Who sadly bypass - reality check - Black Lives Matter. Not to mention opening on the one year anniversary of the NYPD chokehold slaying of Eric Garner.

| Jul 17, 2015

Before long we're in 'Death Wish' territory, with the plot turns growing more and more implausible as the picture lumbers toward what might pass for a happy ending [but] distinguished by a ferociously committed performance by Viola Davis.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 17, 2015

Unlike the more testosterone-driven revenge fantasies of the Charles Bronson ilk, this one dares to be more complex and offers no absolution in the baptism of blood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2015

When movies like this star the likes of Liam Neeson, they open on 3,000 screens. It's difficult not to see racism and sexism in the disparity.

| Jul 17, 2015

I am not sure a film about mothers tracking vicious gang bangers is such a great idea, specifically since there are many glaring faults.

| Jul 17, 2015

"Lila & Eve" is a taut thriller for much of the film. It suffers a bit from a couple of flaws, but they're not deal breakers.

| Jul 17, 2015

A woman mourning her murdered son teams up with a friend she meets at a support group to take vengeance upon his killers in this earnest, increasingly improbable thriller.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 17, 2015