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Lee Marshall

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:: Screen International , Screendaily

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
—	——	La Maison De La Radio ()	— Screen International Posted May 2, 2013
	60%	Kiss Of The Damned (2013)	" There's enough fang-sinking, tomato sauce and squelchy sound effects to keep us from feeling peckish." — Screen International Posted Apr 29, 2013
	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Harmony Korine's remarkable fifth feature is like nothing the US maverick has ever done -- or anyone else, come to that." — Screen International Posted Mar 22, 2013
	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" In a film where the production design has as much dramatic heft as the plot, relentless quirkiness swamps the audience's need to care for and identify with any of the characters." — Screen International Posted Feb 4, 2013
	91%	Caesar Must Die (2013)	" Now into their eighties, the Taviani brothers show with this remarkable, fresh and moving drama-documentary they have lost none of that mix of observational rigour and sympathy for the underdog that marked early films like Padre Padrone." — Screen International Posted Feb 4, 2013
	47%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" If buddy-movie Bullet To The Head rolls out just about every cliché in the book, at least it does so with a certain sass and panache." — Screen International Posted Jan 22, 2013
	25%	Passion (2013)	" The film picks up a little when the murder mystery kicks in, but it's only a brief respite." — Screen International Posted Jan 22, 2013
	94%	The Central Park Five (2012)	" It's a gripping story that comes in a well-crafted package." — Screen International Posted Dec 17, 2012
	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" However good your characters and however telling the social and ethical issues your raise, if you ain't got tension, you ain't got a thriller -- and it's in this department that The Company You Keep mostly fails to deliver." — Screen International Posted Sep 6, 2012
	43%	To Rome with Love (2012)	" Though it has a certain charm, To Rome With Love is little more than a travel brochure with jokes." — Screen International Posted Jun 16, 2012
—	——	Operation Libertad ()	— Screen International Posted Jun 6, 2012
	92%	No (2013)	" Larrain's bizarre decision to make his film blend in with its extensive passages of archive footage by shooting in U-matic - the default TV production format of the 1980s - makes for an uncomfortable cinematic viewing experience." — Screen International Posted May 25, 2012
	64%	Cosmopolis (2012)	" [Cronenberg's] dependence on DeLillo's source material means that the director is not entirely his own man, and the atmosphere of impending catastrophe that builds in the course of the film is constantly undermined by its bookish lines and set-ups." — Screen International Posted May 25, 2012
	100%	Gangs of Wasseypur ()	" Though it runs at over five hours, there's never a dull moment in this Indian gangland epic by one of India's hottest indie directors, Anurag Kashyap." — Screen International Posted May 25, 2012
	85%	Electrick Children (2013)	" There's a solid core to this magical realist coming of age tale that smooths over the odd bump." — Screen International Posted May 24, 2012
	45%	On the Road (2012)	" Walter Salles' film is designer Kerouac, a slick product that deploys all the tools of the big-budget, award-chasing indie film." — Screen International Posted May 23, 2012
	87%	Trashed (2012)	" A committed, thought-provoking documentary." — Screen International Posted May 23, 2012
	82%	Like Someone in Love (2013)	" The more you delve, the more resonance you find; the problem is that Kiarostami fails to embed the film's visual, aural and symbolic games in a narrative that satisfies on the level of story and character." — Screen International Posted May 22, 2012
	64%	Antiviral (2013)	" Brandon Cronenberg's feature debut is a cybermedical sci-fi vampire thriller that battles constantly, and with only limited success, against its own ludicrous script." — Screen International Posted May 21, 2012
	82%	Rust and Bone (2012)	" Rust And Bone is a big film in every sense, sure-footed, stylish and confident, that mainlines emotion into its audience." — Screen International Posted May 18, 2012
—	——	Yongseoneun Eupda (No Mercy) (2012)	— Screen International Posted Feb 17, 2012
—	74%	Mozart's Sister (2011)	— Screen International Posted Feb 14, 2012
	22%	Elles (2012)	" The film is perhaps too even-handedly in love with the sisterhood it portrays." — Screen International Posted Feb 11, 2012
—	84%	Bestiaire (2012)	— Screen International Posted Feb 10, 2012
—	83%	The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)	— Screen International Posted Jan 24, 2012
—	——	Life Without Principle (Dyut Meng Gam) (2012)	— Screen International Posted Jan 13, 2012
4/5	77%	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
	81%	Corpo Celeste (2012)	" Grittily real but somehow dreamlike at the same time, coming of age tale Corpo Celeste is a quietly impressive feature debut for documentary maker Alice Rohrwacher." — Screen International Posted Jun 17, 2011
—	——	Beauty & the Briefcase (2011)	— Screen International Posted May 19, 2011
	77%	Melancholia (2011)	" For all the film's command of dark fairy-tale atmosphere it's such a long and sluggish haul that many in the audience will find themselves cheering on the apocalypse." — Screen International Posted May 19, 2011
	84%	The Tree of Life (2011)	" The Tree Of Life has moments of breathtaking visual and aural beauty, but in the end it has us longing for the days of Badlands, Days Of Heaven or The Thin Red Line, when the Texan auteur also knew how to spin a good yarn." — Screen International Posted May 17, 2011
	93%	Take Shelter (2011)	" The film's greatest strength though is the way it combines hints that we're watching a parable of the new US climate of anxiety with an unflinching dedication to the reality of its characters' plights." — Screen International Posted May 17, 2011
	62%	We Have a Pope (2012)	" A delightfully underplayed turn from Michel Piccoli as a newly-elected Pope paralysed by feelings of inadequacy, a large dose of widescreen confidence and some moments of delicate human observation fail to make up for the unresolved feel." — Screen International Posted May 13, 2011
	96%	13 Assassins (2011)	" Once the Seven-Samurai-style band of brothers is assembled, 13 Assassins is pure pleasure: and it culminates in a magnificent 45-minute showdown that has to be the best final battle sequence in cinema since, oh, Kill Bill at least." — Screen International Posted Apr 27, 2011
—	71%	An Englishman in New York (2009)	— Screen International Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	29%	The Tempest (2010)	— Screen International Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	54%	Salt of This Sea (Milh Hadha al-Bahr) (2010)	— Screen International Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	——	Jiabiangou (The Ditch) ()	— Screen International Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	——	Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile (2010)	— Screen International Posted Apr 22, 2011
	80%	Barney's Version (2011)	" Barney's Version starts fumblingly in picaresque mode, and only really hits its narrative and emotional stride in its second half." — Screen International Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	——	Lope ()	— Screen International Posted Apr 22, 2011
	81%	Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011)	" There's a tasty idea in here, and it's entertainingly executed: graft a detective story onto a historical martial arts actioner set during the Tang dynasty, and see what emerges." — Screen International Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	——	State of Violence ()	— Screen International Posted Feb 17, 2011
—	——	Dernier Etage Gauche Gauche ()	— Screen International Posted Feb 16, 2011
	94%	Coriolanus (2011)	" Fiennes fully rises to the challenge of the role: petulant, brave, arrogant, loyal only (to an almost homoerotic extent) to fellow soldiers, but fatally in thrall to his stronger mother." — Screen International Posted Feb 15, 2011
	40%	Yelling to the Sky (2012)	" Though the film and its director undoubtedly have a great deal of heart and passion, too many scenes feel like actors' workshop exercises." — Screen International Posted Feb 14, 2011
—	——	The Absent (2011)	— Screen International Posted Feb 12, 2011
—	——	Kill Me Please ()	— Screen International Posted Feb 10, 2011

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