Fresh
Run Lola Run is fun, fun, fun.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Run Lola Run
Every second of every day you're faced with a decision that can change your life.
1998 · 1h 20m · R
Action, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Tom Tykwer
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Run Lola Run
Overview
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
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93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Cleverly juggling the elements and encounters of a simple thriller scenario by using multiple viewpoints and a domino effect to create different destinies...
David Rooney, Variety
Fresh
Not only does Lola run, she takes this hyperkinetic pop culture firecracker of a film with her.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
A low-budget no-brainer, Run Lola Run is a lot more fun than Speed, a big-budget no-brainer...
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The writer-director of "Run Lola Run," Tom Tykwer, must have heard the phrase "moving pictures" at an impressionable age and taken it literally.
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
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