Lola dabbles in the metaphysics and gamification of that subgenre, but with an independent spirit that tries a lot, refreshingly explains very little, and above all, feeds on the rush.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2025

While there's much substance behind the style, its caffeine-rush rhythm sets the blood pumping.

| Dec 20, 2024

RUN LOLA RUN is the kind of film you might see once, whether in the theater or at home, and never forget it.

| Aug 6, 2024

Run Lola Run is a thinker worthy of discussion and dissection in film classes everywhere.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 29, 2024

Tom Tykwer’s breakthrough, breakneck <i>Run Lola Run</i> set the German filmmaker’s international career in motion in 1998.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

This is a humdinger...full of kinetic energy, it's unlike anything you've ever seen.

| Original Score: A | Jun 23, 2024

Tykwer ups the adrenalin with a fast-forward technique that gives instant backgrounders on some of the people Lola flashes by. It's dizzying, almost like having your life flash before your eyes. But it's a rush, just like the movie.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 21, 2024

The film works like a shot because it gets to the point and does not let up; we get caught up in the urgency of the situation even without having had prior introduction to the protagonist. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2024

Though it doesn’t deliver a Shyamalanian twist or create the revelatory, encompassing new world of The Matrix, it offers spare, high-velocity action with spectacular style, ornamented with ribbons of philosophical mischief.

| Jun 6, 2024

“Running time” takes on more than one meaning when it comes to this compact thriller for which Franka Potente probably wishes she could have been paid by the kilometer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 5, 2022

You’re never bored with seeing the movie start up again, because you want to see how it unfolds this time, what minuscule events will send it spinning off the tracks.

| Original Score: A | Sep 2, 2022

Pure avant-garde filmmaking, wholly succeeding at presenting innovative editing techniques to lure the audience into a plot as nonlinear and sporadic as they come.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 24, 2020

An exercise in sensory overload.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 4, 2017

...an above-average thriller that’s more (much more) than its admittedly eye-catching gimmick.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 28, 2016

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

Teenagers with a taste for the offbeat may enjoy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Run Lola Run takes a few moments to muse about the nature of time and the purpose of man... But its real agenda is the purpose of woman.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 26, 2006

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 5, 2006