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LAEL LOEWENSTEIN Movie Reviews

20 reviews, averaging 55.6% positive
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1. 04/28/10 Very Good "...refreshing in its methods, impressive in its scope and remarkable in its immediacy.... enthralling as a piece of entertainment and as an educational tool."
2.

Darling Companion

Daily Variety
01/26/12 Good (Not Great) "It's always a pleasure to watch actors as fine as Keaton, Kline, Wiest and Jenkins plying their craft, even as it disappoints to see them underserved..."
3.

Date Night

Daily Variety
04/05/10 Outstanding "From their deadpan comedic styles to their brunet good looks, Fey and Carell are so well matched it seems almost inconceivable that this is their first onscreen pairing."
4. 03/17/10 Good "...an enjoyable ride -- albeit one infused with enough gross-out moments to make you feel relieved you've left middle school far behind."
5. 08/02/12 Good (Not Great) "As usual, Zachary Gordon's reliably sardonic narration and Jeff Kinney's occasional onscreen animation lend the proceedings some context."
6.

G-Force

Daily Variety
07/24/09 Fair "...heavy on splashy pyrotechnics and predictably light on plot.... Nevertheless, the pic's technical aspects are beyond reproof..."
7. 08/11/11 Good "...it's virtually impossible not to be swept up in the surge... As one fan attests, ' 'Glee' is like medicine.' Adds another, 'It's like the playlist of my life.' "
8. 04/08/09 Good "...a goofily endearing romp that might even lasso a few new fans."
9. 06/02/11 Weak "...overshoots its comedic potential.... comes off as an exaggerated slapstick romp rather than the breezy, affecting tale of an 8-year-old tomboy it might have been."
10.

Mars Needs Moms

Daily Variety
03/08/11 Good (Not Great) "Adults may roll their eyes at the prospect of yet another slick, premium-priced videogame posing as a 3D movie, but kids, boys especially, will respond..."
11.

Monte Carlo (2011)

Daily Variety
06/30/11 Good "...a frothy, innocuous smorgasbord of girlhood wish fulfillment... Gomez is the virtual embodiment of 7-to-12-year-old female fantasy."
12.

My Life in Ruins

Daily Variety
05/04/09 Weak "...it feels tired from the start... no amount of glorious Greek scenery can make auds forget this is a tour they should have skipped."
13. 05/20/09 Fair "...proves that adding another ring doesn't make for a better circus.... purely a vehicle for lavish visuals and cheap gags."
14.

Super Capers

Daily Variety
03/24/09 Poor "A bizarrely misguided attempt to revive -- and spoof -- the classic B-movie... the kind of experience that makes you want your 93 minutes back... it crashes on takeoff."
15.

That's What I Am

Daily Variety
02/16/11 Good "Agreeable, uplifting and earnest almost to a fault... benefits from sensitive, restrained thesping, most notably by Ed Harris, and leaves one feeling blandly inspired."
16.

The Spy Next Door

Daily Variety
01/09/10 Poor "It's a sad day for Jackie Chan fans... Chan struggles gamely to charm, but the pic's cartoonish jokes and misfired gags are likely to elicit more eye rolls than laughs."
17.

Tooth Fairy

Daily Variety
01/21/10 Very Good "...truly entertaining... A serendipitous combination of star (Dwayne Johnson), material and director (Michael Lembeck)... scores a goal for kids and adults alike."
18.

Under the Sea 3D

Daily Variety
02/10/09 Outstanding "Gorgeous, informative and as gripping as a shark's jaws... The ocean remains an inexhaustibly mesmerizing subject... that rare movie that leaves viewers wanting more."
19. 05/10/12 Good (Not Great) "Helmer Kirk Jones ('Nanny McPhee') does a solid job negotiating the material and managing the few tonal shifts when an occasional dark moment emerges..."
20.

Whiteout

Daily Variety
09/11/09 Poor "...a frozen concoction of red herrings, incongruous plot points and thinly developed characters... some lines inadvertently yielded snickers and groans."

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