Leah Rozen

'Big Miracle': Feel-Good Whale Tale's Appeal Is No Fluke

February 2, 2012 By Leah Rozen 1 week ago

Ken Kwapis' based-on-fact "Big Miracle" has likable characters and is smart enough to stand out from the pack of so-so spring film offerings

  

Review: Katherine Heigl IS Snooki in Flaccid 'One for the Money'

January 27, 2012 By Leah Rozen 1 week ago

She plays a Jersey girl with an accent so broad it makes Joe Piscopo’s old “I’m from Jersey” routines on “Saturday Night Live” sound subtle

  

Review: Peter Facinelli's Vanity Project 'Loosies' All Smoke, Little Fire

January 19, 2012 By Leah Rozen 3 weeks ago

Intriguing tale of a Big Apple pickpocket loses it when it comes to romance

  

Review: Meryl Streep's 'Iron Lady' Is Margaret Thatcher as King Lear With a Wink

December 29, 2011 By Leah Rozen 6 weeks ago

The film lacks the eloquence of Shakespeare’s drama about an aging king heading into madness, but it does convey that the passing years spare no one

  

Review: Way Too Many Happy Feet in Penguin Sequel

November 17, 2011 By Leah Rozen 12 weeks ago

“Happy Feet Two” may be set in Antartica, but it's only a lukewarm effort

  

Review: No, Zeus, 'The Immortals' Isn't Supposed to Be a Comedy in Leather

November 10, 2011 By Leah Rozen 13 weeks ago

The movie has about as much to do with actual Greek mythology as Mickey Mouse cartoons do with the study of rodents

  

Review: 'Another Happy Day' = Another Unhappy, Weepy Weddding

November 3, 2011 By Leah Rozen 14 weeks ago

The Altman-esque drama marks a mostly promising debut for director-writer Sam Levinson, son of director Barry Levinson

  

Review: Yo-Ho-Ho, Johnny Depp Phones It In for 'Rum Diary'

October 27, 2011 By Leah Rozen 15 weeks ago

The meandering comic drama is Depp's second film to be based on a work by gonzo journalist and hard drinker Hunter S. Thompson

  

Review: Cage, Kidman's 'Trespass' a Sadistic Trifle

October 13, 2011 By Leah Rozen 17 weeks ago

Think “Panic Room” or “Cape Fear” and then lower your expectations

  

Review: Roman Polanski's 'Carnage'-- Just a Fang-Less 'Virginia Woolf'

September 30, 2011 By Leah Rozen 18 weeks ago

Jodie Foster is the weakest link in the director's adaptation of the Tony-winning play, opening the New York Film Festival

  

Review: Even With Robert De Niro, 'Killer' Isn't So Elite

September 22, 2011 By Leah Rozen 20 weeks ago

Assassination thriller takes promising ingredients -- including an intriguing subplot about the Feather Men -- and then squanders them

  

Review: Sarah Jessica Parker? I Really Don't Care How She Does It

September 15, 2011 By Leah Rozen 21 weeks ago

Oh, look, it’s rich people in beautifully appointed houses and they’re worried that the nanny might not arrive on time -- boo-boo!

  

Review: 'The Debt,' a Taut Thriller Well Worth the Wait, Ushers in Fall Season

August 30, 2011 By Leah Rozen 23 weeks ago

Finally seeing light of day, having gotten lost in the corporate shuffle when Disney sold Miramax, movie is well worth the wait

  

Review: Hallelujah for the Non-Preachy But Spiritual 'Higher Ground'

August 25, 2011 By Leah Rozen 24 weeks ago

Actress and new director Vera Famiga looks at an evangelical Christian community with an open and a (mostly) nonjudgmental eye

  

Review: 'Flypaper' Just Like 'Pulp Fiction' -- But a Decade Too Late

August 18, 2011 By Leah Rozen 25 weeks ago

Written 12 years ago by the "Hangover" team, it's neither clever nor funny enough to make a viewer care.

  

Review: John Sayles Casts His War Net Too Wide in 'Amigo'

August 18, 2011 By Leah Rozen 25 weeks ago

You don’t need a Ph.D in history to see the obvious parallels between the story that Sayles is telling in “Amigo” and more recent American conflicts

  

'Whistleblower': 'Inspired by,' but Not Very Inspired

August 4, 2011 By Leah Rozen 27 weeks ago

With its ballsy heroine who zealously attempts to right injustices and uncover corruption, is in spirit if not overall achievement a throwback to films of the ‘70s and ‘80s like “Norma Rae,” “Silkwood”

  

'Attack the Block': Giant Feral Chia Pets Gone Wild

July 28, 2011 By Leah Rozen 28 weeks ago

British monster mash is equal parts funny and entertaining and even offers some genuine scares

  

'Cowboys & Aliens': Yeah, There Are Cowboys ... and Aliens -- But Not Much Else

July 27, 2011 By Leah Rozen 28 weeks ago

“C&A” illustrates how mechanical and intellectually lackluster movies have become in the age of global-minded studios

  

'Another Earth': A Thoughtful Sci-Fi Romance -- Without Aliens

July 21, 2011 By Leah Rozen 29 weeks ago

Instead, the movie’s all-too-human characters are alienated from their own feelings at times, as a second Earth appears

  

'Friends With Benefits': Standard Rom-Com but New Product Placements

July 21, 2011 By Leah Rozen 29 weeks ago

Oddly, it makes fun of the clichés of the genre even as it indulges in them

  

'Snow Flower': Tasteful, Watered Down and Just for the Book Club Set

July 14, 2011 By Leah Rozen 30 weeks ago

Not content to leave well enough alone, for viewers too antsy to sit through a period piece, it adds on to the bestseller a parallel, contemporary story

  

'Project Nim': Dramatic Warning About Monkeying Around With Mother Nature

July 7, 2011 By Leah Rozen 31 weeks ago

Latest doc from 'Man on Wire's' James Marsh nimbly serves up a profoundly sad tale of '70s chimp experiment

  

'Larry Crowne': So Flaccid It Seems Written by a Q-Tip

June 30, 2011 By Leah Rozen 32 weeks ago

See Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts make nice ... in fact, too nice!

  

Review: 'Cars 2' Isn't Just a Kiddie James Bond on Tires, It's Tired

June 23, 2011 By Leah Rozen 33 weeks ago

“Cars” -- though the least compelling of Pixar’s 11 previous features -- is a Lamborghini compared to the Edsel that is its sequel

  

Review: Why 'Green Lantern' Is One Men-in-Tights Too Many

June 16, 2011 By Leah Rozen 34 weeks ago

The latest in a long string of superhero movies is ho-hum dopey fun with no magic

  
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