| 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

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

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

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

The premise ends up muddling a movie that might have been enlightening.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2009

The breezy title of this engaging documentary suggests that it isn't going to solve the big questions of life, but will at least treat its subject -- yoga in its many forms from the sublime to the utterly absurd -- with humor and an open spirit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2009

He who has to ask what yoga is never gets to know.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2009

Enlighten Up! explores its subject with a light touch and welcome sense of humor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2009

Its director winds up focusing on the least interesting/most predictable tension of them all, that which arises between herself and her handpicked, inflexible star.

| Apr 1, 2009

Well-crafted pic traverses the globe, interviewing a who's-who of gurus and investigating a wide range of regimens -- with Rosen as both questioner and body-contorting guinea pig.

| Mar 31, 2009