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

| Dec 20, 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

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

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

Teenagers with a taste for the offbeat may enjoy.

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

Thank god for Run Lola Run’s electrifying playfulness or its exploration of the butterfly effect would feel too glib by half.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 1, 2003

Run Lola Run is fun, fun, fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Run Lola Run sets new standards for the cinema of hysteria.

| Mar 3, 2002

Cleverly juggling the elements and encounters of a simple thriller scenario by using multiple viewpoints and a domino effect to create different destinies...

| Feb 14, 2001

Not only does Lola run, she takes this hyperkinetic pop culture firecracker of a film with her.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2001

"Run Lola Run" is the music video you've been dreaming for movies to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Run Lola Run's power isn't in celebrating the giddy mixture of testosterone, drugs and new youth culture (i.e., electronica), but in taking the oldest of questions...

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

...a sort of power-pop variation on the mystical time-bending Euro-art movies made by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A madly spinning top of a movie.

| Original Score: A | Jan 1, 2000

A film of nonstop motion and visual invention.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's a furiously kinetic display of pyrotechnics from the director Tom Tykwer, who fuses lightning-fast visual tricks, tirelessly shifting styles and the arbitrary possibilities of interactive storytelling...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

What's more, this stylish, hugely likeable bit of adrenaline-pumped Euro-nonsense should shatter the illusions of those convinced that all subtitled fare is musty, wordy and dull.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Run Lola Run is the feverish, wish-fulfillment embodiment of everyone's unspoken dream...

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

An exuberant and creative film game that amps things up for a run of nonstop action that tantalizes the senses and bombards the mind with an adrenaline rush of stimuli.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000