ROTTEN TOMATOES: Leah McLaren

LEAH MCLAREN

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Biography: Globe and Mail contributor.

Total Reviews: 32

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Rotten 1/4	Rotten 43%	The Brave One (2007)	" *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.**" Posted Sep 14, 2007
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 60%	Show Me (2005)	" 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." Posted Aug 19, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)	" July is without a doubt a brave new talent in the creatively beleaguered world of American cinema." Posted Jul 22, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	Mysterious Skin (2005)	" It's a film that deals with childhood sexual abuse in an original and dry-eyed manner rarely seen in our culture today." Posted Jun 10, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 41%	Kicking and Screaming (2005)	" A limping string of laboured sight gags and sentimental clich�s." Posted May 13, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 52%	Ice Princess (2005)	" 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." Posted Mar 18, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 67%	Phil the Alien (2004)	" A delightfully freakish comedy." Posted Mar 11, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 66%	Bride and Prejudice (2005)	" *What is silly about Bride* is also what makes it special. That and its leading lady, the luminous Aishwarya Rai.**" Posted Feb 25, 2005
Rotten 1.5/4	Rotten 45%	Constantine (2005)	" *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.'**" Posted Feb 19, 2005
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 83%	The Sea Inside (2004)	" Never once does this film sacrifice its moral ideas or complexity of character on the cheap altar of sentimentality." Posted Jan 21, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 12%	Are We There Yet? (2005)	" Uh oh, pull over, I think I'm gonna be car sick." Posted Jan 21, 2005
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 10%	Elektra (2005)	" 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." Posted Jan 15, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 21%	Fat Albert (2004)	" 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." Posted Dec 23, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 33%	Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)	" 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." Posted Dec 22, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 72%	Primer (2004)	" An unapologetically cerebral movie of ideas." Posted Dec 3, 2004
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 31%	Seed of Chucky (2004)	" 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." Posted Nov 14, 2004
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 26%	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)	" Her character, a self-deprecating blend of accidental insight and unapologetic girlish emotion, has gone from idiosyncratic to flat-out idiotic." Posted Nov 12, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 97%	The Incredibles (2004)	" 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." Posted Nov 5, 2004
Rotten 1.5/4	Fresh 63%	Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004)	" It will be interesting only to die-hard hip-hop enthusiasts." Posted Nov 5, 2004
Rotten 2/4	Rotten 47%	Saw (2004)	" Inventive, but ultimately flawed, film." Posted Oct 29, 2004
Fresh 2.5/4	Rotten 44%	Luther (2003)	" About as swashbuckling as a history lesson gets." Posted Oct 22, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 15%	Head in the Clouds (2004)	" Great, gooey, hot-fudge sundae of a love story." Posted Oct 22, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 16%	Raise Your Voice (2004)	" 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?" Posted Oct 8, 2004
Rotten 2.5/4	N/A	Ham & Cheese (2004)	" Ham & Cheese is a three-joint movie: The more chemically mood-enhanced you happen to be when you see it, the more amusing the experience will be." Posted Oct 6, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 41%	Ladder 49 (2004)	" 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." Posted Oct 1, 2004
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 61%	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)	" For all its clever antics, this movie leaves the audience out of the central joke for way too long." Posted Sep 24, 2004
Fresh 3.5/4	Fresh 91%	Shaun of the Dead (2004)	" It's intelligent, funny and utterly disgusting all at once." Posted Sep 24, 2004
Rotten 2/4	Fresh 79%	Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003)	" The movie fails to pull off all its trick moves." Posted Aug 20, 2004
Rotten 2.5/4	Fresh 87%	Intimate Strangers (2004)	" Personally, I like French movies, but this one was a lot to take, even for me." Posted Aug 20, 2004
Fresh 4/4	Fresh 97%	Maria Full of Grace (2004)	" Provides a moving critique of the heroin trade as well as a powerful portrait of an unjust global economy in which the lives of the poor are exploited and often discarded for the recreational purposes of the rich." Posted Jul 30, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Fresh 81%	The Bourne Supremacy (2004)	" The Bourne Supremacy not only lives up to the promises of the novel by Robert Ludlum, but in many ways manages to improve on the first film." Posted Jul 23, 2004
Fresh 3/4	Rotten 37%	Touch of Pink (2004)	" Amuses and delights far more than it fails to surprise." Posted Jul 16, 2004

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