Megan Lehmann

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New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter
For 329 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Megan Lehmann's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 Holy Motors
Lowest review score: 0 The Cookout
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 160 out of 329
  2. Mixed: 72 out of 329
  3. Negative: 97 out of 329
329 movie reviews
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Megan Lehmann
    Holy Motors
    Exhilarating, opaque, heartbreaking and completely bonkers – French auteur Leos Carax's so-called comeback film, Holy Motors, is a deliciously preposterous piece of filmmaking that appraises life and death and everything in between, reflected in a funhouse mirror.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Megan Lehmann
    Fast Five
    Big crashes, lithe women and roiling testosterone, not to mention the addition of The Rock as a fire-and-brimstone federal agent – there's plenty to pull in the (mostly) young male audience.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    Scarlet Diva
    This is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director Dario Argento (a producer here), but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Manito
    A leisurely, scene-setting start, peppered with authentic banter and winning localized humor, fleshes out the characters in Manito so well you feel as if you live alongside them.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Reconstruction
    Uber-hip technique triumphs over substance in Reconstruction.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    Rugrats Go Wild
    Harmless, if slightly hyperactive, fun.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Megan Lehmann
    28 Days Later...
    In place of elaborate sets, clever filmmaking gives the impression of a central London emptied of people and cars, to eerie effect - and this opening reel is nothing short of magnificent.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    The Slaughter Rule
    A good-looking, if imperfectly plotted, coming-of-age feature -- that doesn't quite manage to sidestep the clichéd sport-as-metaphor-for-life trap.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Megan Lehmann
    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Simultaneously funny and frightening, Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical masterpiece. [25 Apr 2004, p.3]
    • New York Post
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Margarita Happy Hour
    At once, a joyful celebration of female friendship and an unusually honest look at newly responsible young women wistfully saying goodbye to the dreams of their youth.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Late Marriage
    Kosashvili's clear-eyed approach to the cultural tradition of arranged marriage balances respect and scorn, and he reconciles the comedy and tragedy inherent in Zaza's tug-of-love with finesse.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    The Dancer Upstairs
    It's mostly a political thriller, contingent on a love story. It's kind of noirish, subtly humorous and intermittently confusing.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    Johnny English
    It's a chaste "Austin Powers," a less ridiculous "Casino Royale," a more subtle "Spy Hard" — in other words, yet another James Bond parody.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Elf
    Ferrell's manic, overgrown-kid energy sweeps all before it, announcing him - after his standout turn in "Old School" - as a major leading-man talent who can charm as well as amuse.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    It's All About Love
    A weird hybrid of cloning thriller and futuristic love story, with hints of "The Godfather" and "Ice Castles" - and it wears its disjointed nature like a badge of honor.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    The Real Cancun
    It actually works as a sometimes funny, occasionally scandalous, but mostly involving narrative.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Megan Lehmann
    To Be and to Have
    One of the year's most engaging films.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Being Julia
    A pleasantly diverting period romp that Annette Bening turns into a wickedly funny tour de force.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Knafayim Shvurot
    There is much sadness in this finely wrought drama, winner of nine prizes at the Israeli Academy Awards, but the family's hard-won escape from emotional lock-down is ultimately uplifting.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Metallica brought back the rights and funded the project, and it's their honesty and willingness to front the cameras, warts and all, that makes this well-edited, often very funny, documentary so compelling.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    Revolution #9
    McCann weaves in a somewhat toothless condemnation of a bureaucracy that forsakes the mentally ill, but Revolution # 9 works better as an inside look at one person's slide into madness -- and, more particularly, the impact of that on his loved ones.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Megan Lehmann
    Maria Full of Grace
    More than a ripped-from-the- headlines drug drama, Maria Full of Grace is like a horror movie made real.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Open Water
    While immersed in the horror of their plight, you might forget to breathe.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Megan Lehmann
    Sideways
    A sublime variation on the buddy road movie, infusing the midlife crises of the two main protagonists with hope and poetry.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Stage Beauty
    Sometimes teeters on the verge of going completely over the top, but it's mostly saved by its own self-awareness.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    Piglet's Big Movie
    When the world gets too big and scary, the Hundred Acre Wood remains a clearly delineated comfort zone.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    Chaos
    There's a carnivalesque medley of subplots scampering about the screen, but Serreau manages to emerge triumphant with all the threads nimbly stitched together.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    Club Dread
    This genre-busting hybrid is a scattershot affair - bad jokes land with a thud that seems to echo, but the winning ones prompt hearty laughs.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Megan Lehmann
    Postmen in the Mountains
    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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Megan Lehmann
    A Mighty Wind
    A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy.
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