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Consensus: Enlighten Up! is a funny, warmhearted documentary that's uneven in spots, but thought-provoking nonetheless.
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The breezy title of this engaging documentary suggests that it isn't going to solve the big questions of life, but will at least treat its subject -- yoga in its many forms from the sublime to the utterly absurd -- with humor and an open spirit.
Top CriticA pleasure in its open-mindedness. If you're up for a safe, light, skeptic's look into the many variations of modern yoga, take a peek.
Director Kate Churchill's acknowledged struggles to impose a story on ... six months' worth of documentary footage is not particularly successful...
A thought-provoking documentary that provides an up-close and personal look at the quest for spiritual meaning in yoga.
Enlighten Up! is a low-key, charming trip.
Top CriticThis is a peaceful kind of film, not terribly eventful, but I suppose we wouldn’t want a yoga thriller. Relax. Let it happen. Or not.
Top CriticEnlighten Up! is at least occasionally skeptical of the premise that true things might be articulated and disseminated.
There's a lot of talk about the downward-facing dog in Enlighten Up, a yoga documentary I'm giving the downward-facing thumb.
A modest, sublime look at the search for truth
A fast-moving, often humorous documentary about a young man's search for his "higher self" through yoga.
What's Rosen's dating life got to do with yoga? Nothing really, beyond a director's last-ditch attempt to show dramatic tension in her film before it peters out into inconclusiveness.
Top CriticEnlighten Up! explores its subject with a light touch and welcome sense of humor.
Top CriticWhen she inserts herself into the action, she reveals only her own insecurity. It ends up being very enlightening, but probably not in the way Churchill intends.
Entertaining but superficial tour %u2014it never substantively differentiates the myriad of yoga options breezily presented.
Give director Churchill credit for including her own obstinacy in the movie
Moves toward an inconclusive destination while offering a few glimpses of bliss along the way.
The film doesn’t force an artificial resolution on their battle of wills, which may be the most enlightened thing about it.
Rosen makes a good correlative for all of us who don't doubt that flexibility and fitness are worthy goals but who cringe at some of the quasi-religious babble that seems inextricably bound up with yoga.
While Enlighten Up! is entertaining and provocative regardless, it’s too bad that Churchill was so focused on whether Rosen was having his preconceptions shattered that she never stopped to consider her own.
As a movie, Enlighten Up! doesn't really go anywhere.
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