Induces a rare kind of cinematic immersion and nervous intimacy, thanks to its deft treatment of sexual confusion and awakening.

| Mar 1, 2007

It's sort of Romeo & Juliet, but with the same kind of urgency the story of star-crossed lovers must have had for the Bard's first audience...

| Jan 3, 2006

Director/co-writer Ziad Doueiri captures the tenderness of young love and the volatility of Lila's sexual openness -- a bottle of nitro that even Doueiri can't handle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 18, 2005

Lila says what's on her mind. And what's on the frankly speaking, flirtatious blonde's mind is sex.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2005

Just because a cupcake looks like a tart doesn't mean it'll taste like one. Big lesson.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 24, 2005

Give Lila Says points for accuracy in titling.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 16, 2005

As sweet as it is dirty.

| Aug 25, 2005

West Side Story with the songs replaced by Lila's sexual chatter.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 6, 2005

Lila ... comes across as a Larry Flynt fantasy of a compliant temptress.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 4, 2005

A so-what story, but nicely put together and well filmed by John Daly.

| Jul 30, 2005

Though beautifully photographed, there's something creepy at the heart of Lila Says.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2005

The community atmosphere of the vibrant but volatile cultural mix and the tender relationship... are more interesting than the familiar steps of the plot.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 28, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2005

Mostly succeeds in conveying the real- life risks that disgruntled teens will take to prove they're more powerful, more sexy and more in control than they really are.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2005

Doueiri has an unerring sense of place as well as an ear for talk and silence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2005

In the end, Lila Says is far less interesting than its premise, primarily because we never know what anyone is really thinking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2005

An underdeveloped exercise in carnal awakening that thinks its characters are far more special than they ever prove to be.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 15, 2005

[An] unabashedly erotic cross-cultural love story.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 13, 2005

(O)ne of the hottest, sexiest movies sans nudity. Vahina Giocante creates a fully clothed sexual tension reminscent of Kathleen Turner's "Body Heat" (1981).

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 4, 2005