Megan Lehmann, New York Post
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For 326 reviews, this critic has graded:
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42% higher than the average critic
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55% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.5 points lower than other critics.
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Megan Lehmann's Scores
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Positive: 157 out of 326
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Mixed: 72 out of 326
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Negative: 97 out of 326
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movie reviews
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Megan Lehmann 100
A sublime variation on the buddy road movie, infusing the midlife crises of the two main protagonists with hope and poetry. -
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Megan Lehmann 88
It is an important, thoroughly bewitching work of art. -
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Megan Lehmann 100
Chance encounters and fated love are the stuff of fairy tales, which is what makes the deliriously romantic sequel Before Sunset a small miracle. -
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Megan Lehmann 88
More than a ripped-from-the- headlines drug drama, Maria Full of Grace is like a horror movie made real. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
As this Woodstock-on-wheels careens through the countryside, stopping only to play for thousands of hirsute revelers -- and, once, to stock up on booze in Saskatoon -- its famous passengers celebrate with delirious joy the pure, unadulterated magic of music. -
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Megan Lehmann 88
This wonderful party of a movie, as totally original as its hero, stamps on a smiley face that will linger for hours. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
A love letter to a New York neighborhood that is rapidly disappearing -- a tight-knit Dominican community. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
A thrillingly vicarious experience that answers a primal urge to join our feathered friends as they soar and glide in the blue beyond. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Kosashvili's clear-eyed approach to the cultural tradition of arranged marriage balances respect and scorn, and he reconciles the comedy and tragedy inherent in Zaza's tug-of-love with finesse. -
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Megan Lehmann 88
[McCarthy] marries beautifully spare compositions with comically abbreviated dialogue to craft something magnificent from a vaguely precious premise that could easily be the foundation for a parody. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
There's a carnivalesque medley of subplots scampering about the screen, but Serreau manages to emerge triumphant with all the threads nimbly stitched together. -
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Megan Lehmann 88
More than a celebration of Chaplin's art; it is a thorough examination of what made this gifted artist, the world's first true celebrity, tick. -
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Megan Lehmann 100
Like a bomb exploding in a fireworks factory: It's fierce and shocking and dazzling and wonderful. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
A joyous, toe-tapping celebration of a musical style born of sorrow. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Part urban thriller, part unorthodox love story, this well-acted portrayal of the shadowy realm occupied by London's illegal immigrants is buoyed by stinging social commentary and a surprising twist of intelligent humor. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Makes a powerful case against the wisdom of budget cuts at universities everywhere. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Pray will force you to look at the music as more than just gobbledygook created by musical-bower birds who can't spell. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
The dirty old man who became a cult poet and author was a true original, and every minute he's on screen, whether it's reading from his brutally honest work or musing on a hard-lived life for the cameras, it's hard to look away. -
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Megan Lehmann 100
It's a wistful yet penetrating film, shot through with magic realism and life-affirming humor, that gets you deep down where you live. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
A thumping soundtrack, including David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel" and Pink Floyd's "Us and Them," fuels this high-energy look at a pack of underdogs who sowed the seeds for today's extreme sports craze. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Lacking a solid narrative beyond the worsening marital crisis, this humor-flecked domestic drama ends up relying heavily on directorial tricks such as splashes of magic realism, giving it a self-satisfied air that quickly becomes grating. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Uniformly excellent performances keep this destabilizing tale ticking, yet one can't help wishing Hollywood had combined this cast and these timely themes with a little bit of imagination to come up with something fresh. -
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Megan Lehmann 38
Seems to exist solely to drive this observation home in the most heavy-handed way. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
There is much sadness in this finely wrought drama, winner of nine prizes at the Israeli Academy Awards, but the family's hard-won escape from emotional lock-down is ultimately uplifting. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
A compelling portrait of a matchless man, who's still going strong at 72. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Winterbottom's bold film, its gritty visuals offset by Dario Marianelli's lavish score, makes real the desperate lengths that refugees -- those running from poverty as well as dange -- will go to. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Jenkins doesn't stint on the sickening reality of Wuornos' abhorrent behavior -- it's Theron's complex, deeply felt depiction of a thoroughly messed-up soul that forces us to look beyond the monstrous nature of her acts. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
When Gilliam is finally forced to admit defeat, it is nothing short of heartbreaking - for audiences, too, as the few shots that made it into the can hold such promise. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Metallica brought back the rights and funded the project, and it's their honesty and willingness to front the cameras, warts and all, that makes this well-edited, often very funny, documentary so compelling. -
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Megan Lehmann 88
In place of elaborate sets, clever filmmaking gives the impression of a central London emptied of people and cars, to eerie effect - and this opening reel is nothing short of magnificent. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
The strapping Damon's lived-in performance makes us happy to follow Bourne wherever he may go. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Delivers its provocative message in the measured tones of a college professor -- yet there's no danger of falling asleep in this lecture. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Campbell is a sweet presence and a capable dancer, featured in a theatrical pas de deux on an open-air stage during a wild thunderstorm that is one of the film's visual highlights. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
This slow-moving Swedish film offers not even a hint of joy, preferring to focus on the humiliation of Martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Leigh's uncanny ability to mine emotional truth packs the usual punch. And the trademark flashes of humor sprinkled throughout ease the bleakness of the landscape. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
A promising film that is dragged down by the weight of its gray morbidity. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
It's a hushed work of restrained emotions, elliptical storytelling and spare dialogue, peopled with smart, authentic characters who have drawn you into their lives before you know it. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
The plot is thin as consomme, and the thudding score is distracting, but the heartfelt storytelling and Michael Bertl's disarming cinematography make this a food film to savor. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Corcuera's unflinching documentary Back of the World is a real-life horror story told in three parts. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
There's nothing particularly startling or new in the script by Siegel and his co-writers Lisa Bazadona and Grace Woodard - except that it, refreshingly, draws its characters in real-life shades of gray. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
A leisurely, scene-setting start, peppered with authentic banter and winning localized humor, fleshes out the characters in Manito so well you feel as if you live alongside them. -
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Megan Lehmann 88
Hilariously overblown, "Cruelty" fairly pops at the seams with the beloved eccentricity of Joel and Ethan Coen, from the fiendishly ludicrous scenarios and casually tossed off visual gags to the razor-sharp repartee. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Dialogue is sparse in this leisurely paced chase; instead, the bluesy vocals of indigenous singer Archie Roach -- singing de Heer's lyrics -- are layered over the action as a kind of musical narration. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Less of a "You go, girl" manifesto than its title would suggest. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious, but restrained and subtle storytelling, and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Along with co-writer Emmanuele Bernhein, Ozon...has crafted a contemplative blend of fantasy and reality that illuminates the mysteries of the creative process. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Succinct yet detailed storytelling, evocative cinematography (by Ellen Kuras) and arresting central performances add up to a trio of engaging character portraits. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
It manages to be both kinetic and dream-like at the same time -- "Run Lola Run" by way of David Lynch. -
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Megan Lehmann 88
Despite its shock value, Thirteen rises above dysfunctional-family-drama cliches, thanks to the truthfulness of its script and the keen eye of a sympathetic director. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
Purists will probably have a conniption at the mere idea of messing with the form, but the worst thing about Jacquot's post-modern treatment is that its incongruity wrenches you out of the story. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
This modest little film out of Africa suffers from largely rudderless direction, relying for any sense of profundity on the breathtaking beauty of Abraham Haile Biru's cinematography. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Clarkson, the reigning queen of the indies, is simultaneously funny and heartbreaking, following up killer performances in "The Station Agent" and "All the Real Girls." -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Infused with the hazy golden glow of nostalgia and unfolds at a leisurely pace, reminiscent of "The Virgin Suicides." -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Cadigan is honest enough to leave in a disturbing scene in which he talks about the "violent imagery" in his head and fantasizes about using a kitchen knife on his mother, before breaking down in tears. It's raw stuff. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
This is what IMAX was made for: Strap on a pair of 3-D goggles, shut out the real world, and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
If you give yourself over to it, this romantic tale of a liberating one-night stand proves oddly seductive and generates a warm afterglow. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Paints a picture of a young man enamored of his own image. His enormous success turned the ever-cocky Gator egomaniacal -- and abusive. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
An amusing side dish to the sober political documentaries flooding the art houses, The Yes Men effectively uses high farce to mock the status quo as a way of questioning it. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
The feel-good finale -- an ending even less in doubt than that of the most predictable Hollywood fare -- is as rousing as you'd hope and the fast-paced, on-ice action is satisfyingly authentic. -
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Megan Lehmann 25
Presumably, Deville wants to show life returning to normal after WWII, but in the context of this inert movie, "normal" equals "tedious." -
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Megan Lehmann 75
A fanciful little indie brimming with emo music and curious little vignettes, marks a self-conscious but very promising debut for "Scrubs" star Zach Braff. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
A worthy addition to the cinematic canon, which, at last count, numbered 52 different versions. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
Paints a vivid portrait of a compelling young man but, perhaps inevitably, goes overboard on the deification. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Keaton's overamped girlishness, and the adolescent shenanigans she engages in, make a mockery of this overlong romantic comedy's stance as a celebration of mature love. -
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Megan Lehmann 50
If it weren't for the estrogen-fueled action scenes -- choreographed by director Cory Yuen with wit and style -- So Close would be as disposable as the shampoo ad it all too often resembles. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Its "I see dead people" premise is shopworn, but Hong Kong brothers Oxide and Danny Pang manage to deliver real skin-prickling jolts with their minimalist horror film. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
An energetic, feel-good blend of comedy, romance and benign drama -- with a side dish of social commentary -- that works despite its strict adherence to the culture clash/generation gap formula. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
The concert footage is stirring, the recording sessions are intriguing, and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
At once, a joyful celebration of female friendship and an unusually honest look at newly responsible young women wistfully saying goodbye to the dreams of their youth. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
If you like your language blue and your humor coarse, Margaret Cho is for you. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Indie hipster Jarmusch's distinctive brand of effortless cool and quirky humor percolate through each of 11 vignettes, all shot fairly statically in crisp, aesthetically pleasing black and white. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
A good-looking, if imperfectly plotted, coming-of-age feature -- that doesn't quite manage to sidestep the clichéd sport-as-metaphor-for-life trap. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
A pleasantly diverting period romp that Annette Bening turns into a wickedly funny tour de force. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
Walking a tightrope between high farce and emotional truth, writer-director Gabriele Muccino's breathlessly paced Italian comedy The Last Kiss manages to stay just this side of melodrama. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
When the Powerpuff Girls blink those soulful dinner-plate peepers, you could forgive them anything - even their movie's wafer-thin excuse for a plot. -
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Megan Lehmann 63
De Villa has created a truthful representation of a colorful community. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Ferrell's manic, overgrown-kid energy sweeps all before it, announcing him - after his standout turn in "Old School" - as a major leading-man talent who can charm as well as amuse. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
It's hard to go wrong with documentary subjects as articulate and intriguing as childhood friends John Flansburgh and John Linnell. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
There's also enough laconic humor, warming camaraderie and hopeful stabs at dignity to keep the story from assuming the glum gunmetal gray of its setting on the coast of northwestern Spain. -
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Megan Lehmann 75
Builds steadily from its smarter-than-your-average-horror-film beginnings to a genuinely cunning psychological thriller with a third-act twist guaranteed to shock even the most eagle-eyed watchers. -
