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Megan Lehmann

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Publications:: Hollywood Reporter , New York Post

Total Reviews:: 259

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	42%	Battleship (2012)	" Impressive visual effects and Berg's epic set pieces fight against an armada of cinematic clich�s and some truly awful dialogue." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 11, 2012
—	59%	Any Questions for Ben? ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 9, 2012
	42%	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)	" As the band of adventurers skips from one supersized Survivor-like challenge to the next, one can't help feeling the creative potential of Verne's vision is wasted." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 17, 2012
—	78%	Santa's Apprentice (L'apprenti Pere Noel) ()	— Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 10, 2011
	38%	Johnny English Reborn (2011)	" A redundant spy farce sequel that's less of a rebirth than a retread." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 19, 2011
	61%	Griff the Invisible (2011)	" A superhero wannabe fights the forces of loneliness and alienation in this uneven Aussie indie." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 19, 2011
	68%	The Eye of the Storm (2012)	" An intelligent, visually sumptuous drama that embraces the grandeur of the Australian literary classic upon which it's based." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 25, 2011
	85%	The Snowtown Murders (2012)	" A well-made but hard-to-watch portrait of Australia's worst serial killer." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 17, 2011
	78%	Fast Five (2011)	" Utterly preposterous, but this car-crazy franchise is armor-plated." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 19, 2011
	77%	Thor (2011)	" The hammer-hurling god of thunder kicks off this superhero summer with a bang." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 18, 2011
	72%	Rio (2011)	" A tropical-colored wingding that will have kids and their chaperones shaking a tail feather to its pulsating Latin beats." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 7, 2011
	16%	Skyline (2010)	" A laughably bad sci-fi mash-up with some above-average special effects." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 11, 2010
	64%	Tomorrow, When the War Began (2012)	" Australia may finally have a homegrown blockbuster on its hands with the terrifically engaging Tomorrow, When the War Began, an action-packed war film for and about teenagers." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 6, 2010
	59%	Love the Beast (2009)	" Bana's easygoing manner and a lingering sense of nostalgia build a mellow mood overall, while shrewd editing by Conor O'Neill and a rocking Aussie soundtrack pump up the volume on the race sequences." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 3, 2009
	55%	Australia (2008)	" The most expensive Australian film ever made is rousing and passionate." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 18, 2008
	61%	Newcastle (2008)	" Cinematographer Richard Michalak's gorgeous water-based action shots guarantee the young target audience will want to head straight out for surf lessons, but there's even less dramatic heft here than in the superior Blue Crush." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 2, 2008
	88%	The Black Balloon (2008)	" Young love triumphs in a terrific Australian indie that deals with autism in an authentic, unsentimental way." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 6, 2008
	50%	30 Days of Night (2007)	" A terrific horror premise goes begging in the garbled Halloween offering 30 Days of Night." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 24, 2007
	50%	Gone (2007)	" First-time director Ringan Ledwidge conjures up an effectively creepy mood to accompany three young backpackers on an ill-fated road trip across the Aussie desert." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 13, 2007
	69%	Opal Dream (2006)	" This is another tale about dreamers, transplanted to the Australian opal-mining hub of Coober Pedy, where the frenzied quest for the rainbow-colored gemstones creates a modern-day gold rush atmosphere." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 7, 2006
	69%	The Book of Revelation (2007)	" The premise is provocative but the film lingers too long on the scenes of imprisonment, turning them into a kind of soft-porn performance art and leaving the emotional aftershocks less satisfyingly explored." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 16, 2006
	40%	The Silence (2009)	" Eloquent direction lifts this beyond a genre whodunit." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 13, 2006
	48%	Macbeth (2006)	" This is Shakespeare as action film -- furiously paced and unapologetically cinematic. If the baroque sets and costumes often overwhelm the acting, it's unlikely the hipsters will mind." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 13, 2006
	65%	Jindabyne (2006)	" A coiled and enigmatic psychodrama that cements Australian director Ray Lawrence's standing as a fine, if not prolific, filmmaker." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 20, 2006
	73%	Jet Li's Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia) (Legend of a Fighter) (2006)	" Witty choreography juices the pedestrian plot." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 15, 2006
	——	Caterpillar Wish ()	" While intelligent performances from the luminous Porter (Better Than Sex) and newcomer Thaine make their unconventional mother-daughter relationship feel thoroughly organic, the script finally collapses under the weight of a narrative pile-up." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 8, 2006
	98%	Ten Canoes (2007)	" An enchanting fable rich in authenticity and shot through with unexpected humor." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 20, 2006
3.5/4	56%	The Polar Express (2004)	" Devoid of 21st-century irony, this visually stunning, action-packed yuletide treat is sweet and, yes, magical in a way that will enchant kids and give older viewers a twinge of nostalgia." — New York Post Posted Nov 10, 2004
3/4	76%	Brother to Brother (2004)	" An intelligent and entertaining exploration of racial and sexual politics that brings alive the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, and draws parallels with African-American identity crises of today." — New York Post Posted Nov 5, 2004
1.5/4	49%	Alfie (2004)	" Law tries hard to make his Alfie likable, but he's working against the orchestrations of the narrative and merely comes off as feeble, a one-dimensional Eurotrash jerk with outmoded ideas about women and troubles that don't amount to a hill of beans." — New York Post Posted Nov 5, 2004
2.5/4	14%	It's All About Love (2004)	" There's something inherently frustrating about the illogical plot and the breezy vagueness of its message, which seems to be linking the global freezing of a near-future world with the coldness in people's hearts." — New York Post Posted Oct 29, 2004
2/4	39%	Birth (2004)	" It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that ultimately reveals... not much." — New York Post Posted Oct 29, 2004
2/4	12%	Stella Street (2004)	" A sporadically amusing curiosity that falls short of effectively satirizing the public's fixation with the minutiae of celebrity lives." — New York Post Posted Oct 22, 2004
3.5/4	76%	The Machinist (2004)	" Anderson gives The Machinist a sickly noirish look that contributes to the creeping horror -- but it's the emaciated Bale's spectral presence that leaves the imprint." — New York Post Posted Oct 22, 2004
3/4	55%	Undertow (2004)	" Undertow conforms to many of the tropes of a formula thriller but, aided by an evocative Philip Glass score and Tim Orr's beautifully naturalistic cinematography, it transcends the genre." — New York Post Posted Oct 22, 2004
2.5/4	96%	Nashan naren nagou (Postmen in the Mountains) (2003)	" It's a simple tale of father-and-son bonding that director Huo Jianqi injects with a quiet power, and it benefits greatly from the gorgeous lushness of its backdrop." — New York Post Posted Oct 22, 2004
3/4	87%	Lightning in a Bottle (2004)	" Lightning is a joyous, toe-tapping celebration of a musical style born of sorrow." — New York Post Posted Oct 22, 2004
4/4	96%	Sideways (2004)	" It's a joy to watch comedy unfold so naturally, the laughs gently teased out from our growing knowledge of the characters, their imperfections, doubts and, yes, emotional pain." — New York Post Posted Oct 22, 2004
4/4	76%	Team America - World Police (2004)	" Consistently hilarious." — New York Post Posted Oct 15, 2004
1.5/4	17%	Hair Show (2004)	" The story is so slight, a low-wattage hair dryer could blow it away." — New York Post Posted Oct 15, 2004
3/4	76%	Being Julia (2004)	" [Bening] pulls out all the stops playing a limelight-loving stage diva in 1930s London, and her vivacious performance should guarantee her a spot on Oscar's list of Best Actress nominees." — New York Post Posted Oct 15, 2004
2.5/4	64%	Saints and Soldiers (2004)	" There's little here to make this stand out in an already well-stuffed genre." — New York Post Posted Oct 15, 2004
0/4	15%	The Hillside Strangler (2004)	" Another repulsive, fetishistic trawl through the life and crimes of a serial killer." — New York Post Posted Oct 12, 2004
3/4	63%	Stage Beauty (2004)	" Claire Danes and Billy Crudup certainly spark a terrific chemistry on screen." — New York Post Posted Oct 8, 2004
.5/4	10%	Taxi (2004)	" The most embarrassing SNL vehicle since Pootie Tang." — New York Post Posted Oct 6, 2004
3/4	62%	I Heart Huckabees (2004)	" Amid the pandemonium there's a sense of truly rigorous soul-searching." — New York Post Posted Oct 1, 2004
2/4	51%	Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)	" Unconvincing performances and overwritten dialogue make Woman fail to resonate." — New York Post Posted Oct 1, 2004
1/4	41%	Ladder 49 (2004)	" Plays as if the filmmakers compiled a list of every smoke-eater clich� imaginable and then resolutely set about crossing them off." — New York Post Posted Oct 1, 2004
3/4	85%	The Yes Men (2004)	" Subversively funny." — New York Post Posted Sep 24, 2004

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