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Lee Marshall

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Publications:: Screen International , Screendaily

Total Reviews:: 66

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
5/5	87%	Black Swan (2010)	" Rarely has dance been used in film with such narrative thrust and verve, and rarely have the strains of dramatic performance been so intriguingly unpicked." — This is London Posted Sep 1, 2010
4/5	89%	Killer Joe (2012)	" With Killer Joe, a black comedy thriller adapted from a play by Tracy Letts, Friedkin seems to have recaptured some of that youthful energy." — This is London Posted Sep 8, 2011
4/5	72%	Carnage (2011)	" Celebrates an old-fashioned, underrated cinematic pleasure: the chance to see an ensemble cast of fine actors sparring with each other, and at the top of their game." — This is London Posted Sep 1, 2011
	100%	My Neighbor, My KIller (2009)	" The Rwandan genocide of 1994 has spawned a number of feature films, but Anne Aghion's remarkable documentary about the 'Gacaca' community tribunals is the most calmly moving guide yet to the emotional landscape of those who were left behind." — Screen International Posted Jan 20, 2010
	91%	Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008)	" Probably the most authentic and unsentimental mafia movie ever to come out of Italy." — Screen International Posted Dec 16, 2009
	95%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" An odd-couple relationship fuels a slow-burning but ultimately moving emotional and spiritual journey in Ramin Bahrani's third feature." — Screen International Posted Dec 16, 2009
	85%	A Single Man (2009)	" Fashion designer Tom Ford gets it spectacularly right first time round in his directorial debut." — Screen International Posted Dec 11, 2009
	76%	Captain Abu Raed (2007)	" A moving dramatic fable about an elderly airport janitor's relationship with a bunch of Amman street kids." — Screen International Posted Sep 4, 2009
	53%	The Thorn in the Heart (2010)	" Thorn In The Heart reads like an honest, considered portrait of a remarkable woman, but it's not much more than an amuse-bouche for Gondry fans." — Screen International Posted May 17, 2009
	91%	Vengeance (Fuk sau) (2010)	" To's visual style and soundscapes and the choreography of the film's bullet ballet provide reasons to watch, but the contrived plot, some wooden English dialogue and Hallyday's stilted perfomance derail proceedings well before the final showdown." — Screen International Posted May 17, 2009
	71%	Tetro (2009)	" Although it feels at times like a vanity project, some strong performances - most notably by Spanish actress Maribel Verdu, but also Vincent Gallo in the title role and newcomer Alden Ehrenreich - save all but Tetro's most cringeworthy lines." — Screendaily Posted May 14, 2009
	50%	El Nido Vac�o (Empty Nest) (2008)	" It's one of those films whose appeal grows post-screening. Fluently shot with frequent but not jerky handheld camera shots and engagingly edited, Empty Nest is discreetly stylish." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
	78%	Burn After Reading (2008)	" A smart urban screwball comedy about the perils of idiocy that uses its all-star cast to dazzling and often hilarious effect." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
	68%	CSNY D�j� Vu (2008)	" This is not a rock tour film for CSNY fans so much as a rambling, occasionally thought-provoking, sometimes moving enquiry into the question of whether the sixties protest music generation has lost its leverage over hearts and minds." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
	27%	The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)	" A charming indie title, suffused with the spirit of the French New Wave of the early sixties and possessed of a quirky likeability." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
	74%	Caos Calmo (Quiet Chaos) (2009)	" Moretti's performance -- unusually for an actor whose chief trait is sardonic superiority - mines a vein of self-doubt and frail desperation that, together with his tender relationship with his daughter, gives Quiet Chaos a broad human touch." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
	92%	Il Divo (2009)	" If the director never quite gets to the heart of the man, that's part of his point: Andreotti emerges from the film as a collection of fragments." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
	37%	August Rush (2007)	" Those who are prepared to forgive the film its stock characters and lack of emotional subtlety may allow themselves to be ravished -- by the sumptuous soundtrack, if nothing else." — Screen International Posted Oct 26, 2007
	78%	Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)	" One of the nice things about Schnabel's film is the way it transmits the energy of one of those concerts where everything comes together. Even impassive, stern Lou himself is wearing a huge smile on his face by the end." — Screen International Posted Sep 29, 2007
	97%	Persepolis (2007)	" Smoky grey backgrounds add layering and depth, while silhouette-work and jerky cardboard-puppet sequences nod humorously at the Arabian Nights tradition." — Screen International Posted May 24, 2007
	77%	Paranoid Park (2007)	" An original and even memorable addition to Van Sant's filmography." — Screen International Posted May 23, 2007
	85%	2 Days in Paris (2007)	" Delpy and her co-star Adam Goldberg make a pitch for the talky, neurosis-ridden wit and pace of vintage Woody Allen, and most of the time they hit the spot." — Screen International Posted Apr 2, 2007
	——	Bo bui gai wak (Rob-B-Hood) (Robin-B-Hood) (2006)	" There's good buddy chemistry between Koo and Chan, and although some sloppily-shot bridging scenes betray the hectic schedules of Hong Kong cinema, the key action sequences look just fine." — Screendaily Posted Sep 18, 2006
	80%	The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) (2010)	" Arthouse audiences will find themselves dipping in and out of engagement but the story is too contrived in the long run to resonate much beyond its own four walls." — Screen International Posted Feb 2, 2010
	87%	The Hole (2009)	" Though it's a likeable story with a decent pop-psychology twist, the big dramatic problem with The Hole is the way its cute atmosphere and Disney-style teen bonding sessions and scary, thriller elements keep cancelling each other out." — Screen International Posted Sep 24, 2009
	71%	Tetro (2009)	" [Builds] towards a cathartic third-act sequence (set among the glaciers of Patagonia) which does, finally, possess a sort of weird power. But it's a long stretch to get there." — Screen International Posted May 14, 2009
	93%	Man Jeuk (The Sparrow) (Cultured Bird) (2008)	" Some of the scenes in this gentle romantic pickpocketing yarn are pure cinematic pleasure, but in the end the plot and the characters are too thin to turn a series of delightfully stylised setpieces into a fully satisfying film." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
	57%	Noise (2007)	" Having hooked us with the tagline, director Henry Bean never seems to be sure quite where to run with it." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008
	83%	Mang Shan (Blind Mountain) (2007)	" Harrowing but limpidly shot." — Screen International Posted May 23, 2007

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