Dennis Lim

Dennis Lim Independent (UK) Aug 31, 2026 Even for a summer multiplex filler, the movie is garbled. Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 65% 73%

Dennis Lim Independent on Sunday Jul 16, 2026 It may not be a masterpiece, it may not even rejuvenate the British film industry, but it remains far and away it most youthful product in a long while. Go to Full Review Trainspotting (1996) 93% 93%

Dennis Lim Independent on Sunday Jul 16, 2026 The movie isn't especially exciting (or coherent) and, in all honest, it's a bit of an eye-sore. Go to Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% 39%

Dennis Lim Independent on Sunday Apr 10, 2026 Although much of the book's magic remains, this is clearly Disneyfied Dahl. Go to Full Review James and the Giant Peach (1996) 91% 66%

Dennis Lim Independent (UK) Mar 11, 2026 Quite funny in parts, but there's something a little smug and mean-spirited about its reliance on uniformly easy targets. Go to Full Review Waiting for Guffman (1996) 91% 91%

Dennis Lim Independent on Sunday Jul 12, 2024 About as cinematic as, well, an 80-minute conference call. There's a cute short somewhere in here, but across a full-length feature, the gimmicky premise is spread very thinly indeed. Go to Full Review Denise Calls Up (1995) 71% 56%

Dennis Lim Independent on Sunday Jul 12, 2024 Short on ingenuity and verve but oozing undisguised preachiness, this well-meaning fable is unlikely to connect with its target audience. Go to Full Review Rainbow (1996) 13% - -

Dennis Lim Independent on Sunday Jul 12, 2024 While Speed was a lean, self-contained piece, Twister is a lurching succession of awesome set-pieces barely held together by limp characterisation... It's a procession of thrills, but it doesn't add up to any kind of suspense. Go to Full Review Twister (1996) 68% 55%

Dennis Lim Village Voice Jul 12, 2023 The visual effects are impressive, but the movie’s overall style is wearing... The cumulative effect is perversely deflationary: long before it’s over, the film has flushed the paranoia from its system. Go to Full Review The Matrix (1999) 83% 85%

Dennis Lim Out Magazine May 24, 2022 The result is good-natured enough to withstand both an uneven cast (Alessandro Nivola and Adrian Lester are standouts, while Alicia Silverstone and Matthew Lillard struggle gamely) and its own limited novelty value. Go to Full Review Love's Labour's Lost (2000) 51% 40%

Dennis Lim Out Magazine May 24, 2022 Vanasse gives a performance of unaffected grace, and Pool reveals a keen eye for the formative moments of adolescence. Go to Full Review Set Me Free (1999) 83% 77%

Dennis Lim Out Magazine May 24, 2022 Wei sets off on a rescue odyssey that derives humor from the young heroine's alarmingly steely determination and pathos from the film's stark depiction of life on the street. Go to Full Review Not One Less (1999) 96% 90%

Dennis Lim Out Magazine May 24, 2022 Ardent and unflinching, Beau Travail looks beyond homoeroticism to the subtle, savage power games of an all-male world. Go to Full Review Beau travail (1999) 88% 77%

Dennis Lim Artforum Jun 3, 2019 Its unending California dream is the expression of a palpable, deeply poignant yearning. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) 86% 70%

Dennis Lim Artforum Jun 3, 2019 Liberté more than lived up to its title, suggesting that a truly free cinema is one that still believes in the possibility of subversion. Go to Full Review Freedom (2019) 71% 36%

Dennis Lim Artforum Jun 3, 2019 ... an autumnal memory piece that arrives at a state of hard-won grace and serenity. Go to Full Review Pain and Glory (2019) 96% 91%

Dennis Lim Artforum Jun 3, 2019 ...functioning equally as a delirious teen-horror reverie, a serious study of the zombie myth, and an open-ended riff on the persistence of the colonial past. Go to Full Review Zombi Child (2019) 85% 52%

Dennis Lim Artforum Jun 3, 2019 Parasite puts a wickedly literal spin on the notion that there is always someone lower on the socioeconomic ladder. Go to Full Review Parasite (2019) 99% - -

Dennis Lim Artforum Jun 3, 2019 The potent, hallucinatory moods of Diop's previous work are beautifully assimilated here into an oneiric fable of migration and transmigration-suspended between realism and fantasy, the living and the dead, here and elsewhere. Go to Full Review Atlantics (2019) 96% 65%

Dennis Lim Artforum Jun 3, 2019 Far from a one-to-one political allegory, Bacurau is a work of powerfully inchoate despair and rage. Go to Full Review Bacurau (2019) 93% 84%