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Mark R. Leeper

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Biography:: In and out of science fiction circles Mark and Evelyn Leeper are one of the best known writing couples on the Internet. Mark became an avid science fiction fan at age six with TV's "Commando Cody." Both went to the University of Massachusetts in 1968. There Mark introduced Evelyn to the Science Fiction Society and fandom. Both were active members and officers of the society. In 1978 they founded the Bell Labs Science Fiction Club and their own weekly fanzine, now called the MT VOID (pronounced "Empty Void"). In the early 1980s their writing found its way to the Internet where Mark is now the longest-running regularly published film reviewer. They are widely traveled. Mark is best known for his film reviews and analysis, his weekly editorials, his travel writing, and for fannish origami.
Favorites:: QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1968), LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, SCHINDLER'S LIST, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
Publications:: Dog Pile , Mark Leeper's Reviews , rec.arts.movies.reviews
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 1745
Total QuickRatings:: 134

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
6/10	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" OBLIVION is a film with the look being a lot more satisfying than the thought." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Apr 27, 2013
8/10	83%	Desperate Acts Of Magic (2013)	" What makes this film impressive is an unending parade of magic tricks performed by experts and filmed without editing tricks or special effects." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Apr 26, 2013
7/10	38%	Family Weekend (2013)	" What Emily wants is basically a return to "Leave it to Beaver" sort of values. That may be a hard sell in the 21st Century. " — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Mar 24, 2013
6/10	——	May I Be Frank (2013)	" The film is unpleasant at times and also surprisingly honest where Frank is less than totally successful. But Frank's positive personality shines through." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Mar 13, 2013
7/10	88%	Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013)	" As one interviewee says the song "is a melody that evokes new life, hope, and joy." The song does that and so does HAVA NAGILA (THE MOVIE)." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Mar 11, 2013
6/10	81%	From Up On Poppy Hill (2013)	" The film has charm but overall is a little slight. " — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Mar 9, 2013
7/10	79%	Quartet (2013)	" Dustin Hoffman, directing a film for the first time, gives us a film as comfortable as an old stuffed chair." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Feb 21, 2013
6/10	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" has charm and promises more from the new filmmaker" — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Feb 21, 2013
6/10	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" surprisingly complex medical thriller " — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Feb 20, 2013
6/10	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" There is some charm to the story, but the final act is very neat, predictable, contrived, and not up to originality of the first two. " — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Feb 18, 2013
4/10	——	Superpower (2008)	" Sometimes the most stringent argument is not the most effective one." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Feb 17, 2013
7/10	——	Dirty Energy (2013)	" While missing fair representation of British Petroleum, the unrepaired ravages of the disaster are shocking and underscore the need for effective regulation of the petroleum industry." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Feb 4, 2013
6/10	89%	Koch (2013)	" While the structure and style of the film are not particularly inventive, the film is a good background on the issues." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jan 29, 2013
—	——	Ethos ()	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	78%	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	90%	Portrait of Wally (2012)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	92%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jan 22, 2013
7/10	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" While a little overblown and overly long, a wide range of people will find at least something to like here." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jan 11, 2013
8/10	83%	Uprising (2013)	" The story is uplifting but overshadowed by more recent events in Egypt." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jan 1, 2013
10/10	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" Spectacular, sweeping, and poignant. It covers nearly the entire emotional spectrum possible." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Dec 26, 2012
9/10	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" disaster film done as well as one can be done" — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Dec 18, 2012
6/10	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" Visually it is sometimes amazing, but it is a large troll step down from the last trilogy." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Dec 16, 2012
5/10	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" Like an episode of Hitchcock's TV show, HITCHCOCK is entertaining but not great art. " — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Dec 10, 2012
5/10	64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" Stoppard's touches serve only to pull the viewer away from the story and act as a distraction. " — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Nov 29, 2012
6/10	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" a visual feast, well acted and with very fine use of 3D, but the story itself does not reach profundity and instead seems flat and a little pretentious." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Nov 25, 2012
8/10	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" Spielberg respects his audience's intelligence enough to tell the complex story and maintain a great deal of historical accuracy." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Nov 19, 2012
8/10	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" This is a strong, fast, and sexy action story that gives us something different from the Bond films we have seen before." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Nov 13, 2012
8/10	96%	In the Family (2012)	" Will remind viewers of the emotional tugs of a KRAMER VS. KRAMER." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Nov 9, 2012
9/10	96%	Argo (2012)	" This is a film that runs the gamut from grim to absurd." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Oct 17, 2012
7/10	87%	Frankenweenie (2012)	" Burton only occasionally improves on what was in the 1984 version." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Oct 15, 2012
7/10	53%	Simon and the Oaks (2012)	" Though the story does not seem to go into new or even unexpected territory it is engrossing and ultimately affecting." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Oct 8, 2012
9/10	86%	The Master (2012)	" the film has a lot to say about the nature of religious belief, the personalities of radical followers and generally the functioning of cults" — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Oct 3, 2012
6/10	93%	Looper (2012)	" Rian Johnson makes a loud, dark, highly stylized film that looks good but whose ideas do not really bear close examination." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Oct 3, 2012
6/10	87%	Arbitrage (2012)	" You will learn more about arbitrage from this review than you will from ARBITRAGE." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Sep 30, 2012
6/10	——	Adventures In Plymptoons! (2012)	" the crazy mind of man with a unique genius for bringing impossible ideas out from his subconscious and onto the theater screen." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Sep 24, 2012
4/10	39%	The Possession (2012)	" Borndel delivers just what is expected for a visual horror film, but besides the reference to dybbuks, there is nothing at all new or fresh." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Sep 12, 2012
6/10	22%	Serving Up Richard (2012)	" something of a mixed bag of an apparently whimsical film title and concept, some over-the-top gory images, and a serious conflict of attitudes and acting." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Sep 5, 2012
4/10	56%	The Bourne Legacy (2012)	" It is really just another action chase story with a science-fictional MacGuffin concept that could have even been an afterthought." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Aug 15, 2012
7/10	——	Sedona (2012)	" If like me, you think that things like vortices and Chi are so much flap-doodle, then you have to suspend disbelief or you will miss much of the point of the film" — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Aug 15, 2012
7/10	22%	True Wolf (2012)	" as compelling as seeing the wolf is, the film is at its best when discussing the general issue of overcoming the hatred of adversaries and the prejudices that the adversaries' children have learned from their parents." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Aug 9, 2012
6/10	62%	It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl (2012)	" This documentary of the life of Theodore Herzl is full of information and at the same time is disappointingly dry and un-engaging." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Aug 6, 2012
6/10	75%	The Intouchables (2012)	" This is a film that has everything it should need for a warm, moving experience--everything but enough of the unexpected." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jul 26, 2012
7/10	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" The film has more action, more special effects, and more mystical philosophy than THE DARK KNIGHT, but less intelligence." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jul 22, 2012
7/10	——	The Detective's Lover ()	" It overcomes its meager budget and is sufficiently well-written to give the viewer that "what the heck is going on" feeling." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jul 19, 2012
6/10	43%	Patriocracy (2012)	" This film is a diagnosis of the problem without much in the way of a cure, though it does propose some solutions and tries to be optimistic about them." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jul 9, 2012
—	65%	The Woman in Black (2012)	— rec.arts.movies.reviews Posted Jun 21, 2012
7/10	——	Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)	" If you are interested in Pickford herself or just in the early history of the Hollywood film industry, this is an enthralling documentary." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jun 20, 2012
7/10	78%	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)	" Perhaps only one of the stories rises above cliche, but they are all told well with the total being more than the sum of the parts" — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jun 18, 2012
8/10	90%	Portrait of Wally (2012)	" A complex legal controversy is made enthralling and not infrequently shocking." — Mark Leeper's Reviews Posted Jun 13, 2012

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