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

A very clever sci-fi film.

| Aug 17, 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

Shot on film, using vintage equipment, the picture has a scrappy, tactile quality, its ghostly black-and-white images scratched and scorched.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2023

And though the time-travelling paradoxes produce enormous plot holes and lapses of logic, Legge somehow scrappily, often clumsily, makes it work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2023

There’s enjoyment to be had watching this what-if found footage feature set in 1941 England as the Second World War reaches its crux.

| Aug 8, 2022

The premise is tantalizing enough to keep your imagination tickled for most of the film’s brisk 79-minute runtime:

| Original Score: B | Aug 8, 2022