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Leah McLaren

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Globe and Mail contributor.

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The Brave One (2007) 43% 1/4 EDIT “A seventies' revenge movie with a woefully unconvincing patina of intellectual justification, The Brave One is the sort of genre movie that gets more credit than it deserves.” – Globe and Mail Sep 14, 2007 Full Review Show Me (2004) 67% 1/4 EDIT “This movie is a bad showcase for its actors and for the talents of the filmmaker herself. It's a bad investment for the CFC. And it's bad for the critics who have to suffer through it.” – Globe and Mail Aug 19, 2005 Full Review Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) 82% 3/4 EDIT “July is without a doubt a brave new talent in the creatively beleaguered world of American cinema.” – Globe and Mail Jul 22, 2005 Full Review Mysterious Skin (2004) 86% 3/4 EDIT “It's a film that deals with childhood sexual abuse in an original and dry-eyed manner rarely seen in our culture today.” – Globe and Mail Jun 10, 2005 Full Review Kicking & Screaming (2005) 41% 2/4 EDIT “A limping string of laboured sight gags and sentimental clichés.” – Globe and Mail May 13, 2005 Full Review Ice Princess (2005) 52% 2/4 EDIT “Trachtenberg gives a sweetly compelling performance as Casey, as does the wonderfully kooky Cusack as her mother, but their charms can't save this painfully unoriginal movie from coming out of a triple toe loop and landing flat on its bottom.” – Globe and Mail Mar 18, 2005 Full Review Phil the Alien (2004) 44% 3/4 EDIT “A delightfully freakish comedy.” – Globe and Mail Mar 11, 2005 Full Review Bride & Prejudice (2004) 63% 3/4 EDIT “What is silly about Bride is also what makes it special. That and its leading lady, the luminous Aishwarya Rai.” – Globe and Mail Feb 25, 2005 Full Review Constantine (2005) 46% 1.5/4 EDIT “You can just picture the meeting: A few guys in Prada suits sit around an L.A. boardroom table going, 'The Matrix meets The Exorcist, huh . . .? With Keanu? I like it. No wait - I love it.'” – Globe and Mail Feb 19, 2005 Full Review The Sea Inside (2004) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Never once does this film sacrifice its moral ideas or complexity of character on the cheap altar of sentimentality.” – Globe and Mail Jan 21, 2005 Full Review Are We There Yet? (2005) 12% 1/4 EDIT “Uh oh, pull over, I think I'm gonna be car sick.” – Globe and Mail Jan 21, 2005 Full Review Elektra (2005) 11% 2/4 EDIT “That she is in fact a hired assassin on a $2-million contract killing is charmingly offset by the fact that she wears no makeup and ties her (albeit ridiculously) long brown hair back in a ponytail.” – Globe and Mail Jan 15, 2005 Full Review Fat Albert (2004) 23% 1/4 EDIT “It's sad to see a comic veteran like Cosby pimping out his own franchise for a quick buck. But perhaps a rich old guy can't live on Jell-O pudding ad residuals forever.” – Globe and Mail Dec 23, 2004 Full Review The Phantom of the Opera (2004) 32% 1/4 EDIT “Christine is a dipstick, a trait that the vapid, but pretty-voiced Emmy Rossum brings across with effortless, blank-eyed aplomb in this similarly idiotic film.” – Globe and Mail Dec 22, 2004 Full Review Primer (2004) 72% 3/4 EDIT “An unapologetically cerebral movie of ideas.” – Globe and Mail Dec 3, 2004 Full Review Seed of Chucky (2004) 36% 2/4 EDIT “This movie is about the opposite of political correctness. It's about rooting for the bad guy and the black ending, and shouting at the screen whenever you feel like it. If you like that sort of thing, go see it. If you don't, then don't.” – Globe and Mail Nov 14, 2004 Full Review Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) 27% 2/4 EDIT “Her character, a self-deprecating blend of accidental insight and unapologetic girlish emotion, has gone from idiosyncratic to flat-out idiotic.” – Globe and Mail Nov 12, 2004 Full Review The Incredibles (2004) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Not only is this a rollicking cartoon joy ride for all the little Olivias and Spencers in your life -- it's a solid film in its own right.” – Globe and Mail Nov 5, 2004 Full Review American Experience: RFK (2004) 80% 1.5/4 EDIT “It will be interesting only to die-hard hip-hop enthusiasts.” – Globe and Mail Nov 5, 2004 Full Review Saw (2004) 50% 2/4 EDIT “The film is so convoluted and full of garbled loose ends you can feel the different script drafts battling it out for attention on screen.” – Globe and Mail Oct 29, 2004 Full Review Luther (2003) 46% 2.5/4 EDIT “About as swashbuckling as a history lesson gets.” – Globe and Mail Oct 22, 2004 Full Review Head in the Clouds (2004) 18% 3/4 EDIT “Great, gooey, hot-fudge sundae of a love story.” – Globe and Mail Oct 22, 2004 Full Review Raise Your Voice (2004) 16% 1/4 EDIT “The film suffers from a syndrome I'll call the Pop Princess's New Clothes. Hilary can't really sing, and neither can Terri, so you can't help but wonder, what's the big whoop?” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2004 Full Review Ladder 49 (2004) 40% 1/4 EDIT “The kind of sentimental cash grab that can make a red-blooded gal feel cynical and depressed not just about Hollywood, but America in general.” – Globe and Mail Oct 1, 2004 Full Review Incident at Loch Ness (2004) 66% 2/4 EDIT “For all its clever antics, this movie leaves the audience out of the central joke for way too long.” – Globe and Mail Sep 24, 2004 Full Review
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