As the film goes on, it seems to ask us – and its protagonists – if it is really possible to change the future for the best.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 15, 2024

A very independently spirited film that deserves to find an audience.

| Aug 27, 2024

Working with vintage film cameras and period lenses, the cinematographer Oona Menges creates images that seem infused with rationed cigarette smoke.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2023

There’s much to admire here, but with Legge’s keen eye for the technical side of cinema stronger than his narrative impulses, LOLA ultimately has to go down as an ambitious failure.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2023

Martini and Appleton’s screen presences are sufficiently intense to make up for this brisk film’s focus on narrative conceit at the expense of emotional throughline.

| Dec 11, 2023

Despite beings shaky in terms of tone – as well with its occasionally obtrusive handheld camera movements – Lola impresses with its refreshing blend of analogue and digital flourishes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2023

Stylish and perfectly-formed cinematic coup, with a genius archival mix of film stock [...] a zany and witty Gen Z fantasy of saving-the-world, while elegantly sipping wine in chichi period clothes, in a fashionably derelict mansion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2023

A cerebral, sci-fi thriller that works.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 27, 2023

If you are willing to overlook the many shortcomings that may be attributed to a low budget, “Lola” succeeds in conveying an important message in a highly imaginative and evocative way.

| Aug 23, 2023

Lola is an admirable attempt at something ambitious on slim means, worth a look for fans of sci-fi more driven by ideas than visual FX.

| Aug 21, 2023

A very clever sci-fi film.

| Aug 17, 2023

Unlike many other sci-fi films of its ilk, LOLA creates a unique vision that hinges on the intersection of seismic shifts in world history and cataclysmic interpersonal consequences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2023

One-of-a-kind in its execution and storytelling, a delightful hidden gem.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2023

These emphatic montages can be very artistic but also gimmicky in its dramatic time travel hallucination. Lola is an unusual picture, insanely evocative and hard to predict.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2023

Even with all the metaphysical mayhem, the movie remains rooted in the lives and attitudes of its characters, and in the magnetic performances of Martini and Appleton.

| Aug 7, 2023

Lola may have been made with modest resources, but its ambition is enormous. Legge, Martini, Appleton, and the rest of the cast and crew have made a fiendishly clever thriller that explodes with ideas.

| Aug 7, 2023

Lofty in ambition yet flawed in realization, LOLA is nonetheless an intriguing experiment in lo-fi science-fiction—not to mention, a cautionary tale of the kind of artistic expression we can expect under fascism.

| Aug 5, 2023

Though not without its flaws, this inventive WW2-set sci-fi is a triumph of low-budget filmmaking.

| Original Score: 7.3/10 | Aug 4, 2023

Legge and Macfarlane find a fresh approach to the manipulation of time, delivering an askew take on the WWII experience and the weird crisis of trust facing special siblings.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 1, 2023

Despite the micro-budget, Andrew Legge’s imagination transports us to a cleverly imagined past.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2023