Review of Lakeview Terrace (2008) by Justin M — 01 Sep 2012

Great movie so sad that in this day we still have these prejudices from both sides.

This review of Lakeview Terrace (2008) was written by Justin M on 01 Sep 2012.

Lakeview Terrace has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Eric H (2,898) on 09 Jun 2013

Lakeview Terrace doesn't create the tension at the beginning, and for this failure you fail to emotively comprehend the escalation of events…

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By Meth-Dude (745) on 23 Jun 2014

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Like a lot of better genre fare, Lakeview Terrace uses its predictable premise to mount a stealth attack on the audience's sensibilities…

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Poor, poor Lakeview Terrace. When it comes to films that have a good cast and a good director that end up being bad, I always want to moan…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 24 Nov 2013

One wishes LaBute, a bleak satirist and, at his best, a crudely compelling dramatist, had taken the script and made it his own sort of twisted…

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A nail biting thriller that leaves you at the edge of your seat from start to finish! Also having a few laughs in the mix, it's just brilliant! A+…

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By Kyle C (838) on 26 Jul 2015

Samuel L. Jackson being Samuel L. Jackson, a little questionable in some of the content about it's views on inter racial couples but not bad I guess…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Jul 2017

Ultimately, Lakeview Terrace isn't about race so much as it's about being a man, which has been LaBute's fallback theme from the start…

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By M. E. Russell (386) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 27 Feb 2014

Grabs a fistful of hot-button story elements -- race, sex, politics -- and promptly mixes them into the thriller equivalent of tapioca…

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By Paula Nechak (219) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 09 Jan 2015

When a film has to blare its racially and incendiary stance as obviously as Lakeview Terrace, you know it's trying too hard…

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