| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Director Kate Churchill ends up with a non-story in her feature Enlighten Up! when her subject fails to experience the changes she had been expecting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 28, 2009

Weirdly, it's the documentarian who seems to unravel throughout.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 28, 2009

What's Rosen's dating life got to do with yoga? Nothing really, beyond a director's last-ditch attempt to show dramatic tension in her film before it peters out into inconclusiveness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2009

Give director Churchill credit for including her own obstinacy in the movie

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 26, 2009

In the end, both the believer and the skeptic end up less sure of their beliefs than they were when they started. Which must be at least a small step towards true enlightenment, right?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2009

Enlighten Up! is a low-key, charming trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2009

While Enlighten Up! is ultimately just a surface look at yoga, it's still interesting, if not exactly enlightening, to watch the true believer and the jaded New York journo clash their way down the road to, one hopes, some sort of spiritual resolution.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 19, 2009

When she inserts herself into the action, she reveals only her own insecurity. It ends up being very enlightening, but probably not in the way Churchill intends.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 12, 2009

There's a lot of talk about the downward-facing dog in Enlighten Up, a yoga documentary I'm giving the downward-facing thumb.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 12, 2009

What Enlighten Up illustrates about the dynamic between filmmaker and subject is even more interesting than what it says about yoga.

| Jun 12, 2009

While Enlighten Up! is entertaining and provocative regardless, it's too bad that Churchill was so focused on whether Rosen was having his preconceptions shattered that she never stopped to consider her own.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 11, 2009

This is a peaceful kind of film, not terribly eventful, but I suppose we wouldn't want a yoga thriller. Relax. Let it happen. Or not.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2009

As a movie, Enlighten Up! doesn't really go anywhere.

| Jun 5, 2009

When Nick encounters B.K.S. Iyengar, the legendary guruji and one of the foremost figures of yoga, Churchill's mostly lightweight film radiates some spiritual light.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 29, 2009

I also think the film ends beautifully, the last third in particular a fascinating foray into the heart of India that made me feel a blissful tranquility I wasn't remotely expecting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2009

Rosen makes a good correlative for all of us who don't doubt that flexibility and fitness are worthy goals but who cringe at some of the quasi-religious babble that seems inextricably bound up with yoga.

| Original Score: B | May 15, 2009

Director Kate Churchill's acknowledged struggles to impose a story on ... six months' worth of documentary footage is not particularly successful...

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 8, 2009