Lee Marshall

Lee Marshall's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
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Screen International
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No Score Yet | Courage (2021) |
An absorbing, stirring but also nuanced view of the ongoing protests against the authoritarian regime of Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 6, 2021
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80% | Limbo (2021) |
At a time when the line between Hong Kong and Chinese productions is becoming increasingly blurred, Soi Cheang delivers a tough, atmospheric slice of Cantonese noir that defiantly tips its hat to the great tradition of John Woo and Johnnie To. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 5, 2021
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100% | Social Hygiene (2021) |
It is strange enough to succeed in its own very small way. Though there are times when it aggravates, Social Hygiene is an odd, original take on the idea that men and women live on different planets. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 3, 2021
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67% | Drift Away (2021) |
Starting sedately but promisingly, it sails (literally, in one respect) into a perfect storm of heavy-handed symbolism and sentimentality. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 3, 2021
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70% | Natural Light (2021) |
An absorbing, beautifully crafted, thought-provoking addition to the new Hungarian cinematic wave... - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 3, 2021
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85% | Introduction (2021) |
A delight, a wistful, smart, chamber piece... - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 2, 2021
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90% | Caterina in the Big City (2003) |
Juggles six major and more than a dozen minor characters with some skill. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 28, 2021
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100% | Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021) |
Throughout the film, Duricic modulates from competent professionalism and concern to steely determination to helpless desperation and terror. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 8, 2021
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65% | One for the Road (2021) |
Chips away engagingly, and unsentimentally, at the roots of male friendship and the question of how young men cope with their own or their friends' impending death. - Screen International
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| Posted Jan 29, 2021
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60% | Yellow Cat (2020) |
Around the midpoint, quirkiness for its own sake has smothered the needs of story and character one too many times. From there on in, Yellow Cat sinks under the weight of its own cuteness. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 27, 2020
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98% | Cell 211 (Celda 211) (2009) |
With an edgy shooting style that plays up the claustrophobia of the prison as social microcosm, and two fine central performances - particularly that of Luis Tosar as hard-guy and riot ringleader Malamadre - there's plenty to enjoy beyond the story. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 23, 2020
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100% | Le Sorelle Macaluso (2020) |
It's a film that rises above a few heavy-handed directorial touches to weave, over its admirably lean running time, a tapestry of sisterly bonds and fissures that also has plenty to say about the film's setting... - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 10, 2020
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100% | City Hall (2020) |
Remarkable for its view of a disparate groups of American citizens talking, explaining, disagreeing, correcting, persuading, conceding and engaging with one another. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 9, 2020
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81% | Notturno (2021) |
A sensitive, open-ended film which rewards patient, receptive viewers with images of great beauty and a human vision of profound empathy. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 8, 2020
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98% | Night of the Kings (La Nuit des Rois) (2020) |
A rich, strange creature... whose director becomes a kind of choreographer of underground energies and buried narratives. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 7, 2020
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100% | Sun Children (Khorshid) (2020) |
Its naïve brand of 21st century neo-realism feels strangely refreshing, like a nostalgia trip back to some imagined past when Disney made live-action children's movies in Iran. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 6, 2020
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95% | Mandibles (Mandibules) (2020) |
Shows the talented French musician and director abandoning the wilful Mondo Bizzarro surrealism and fourth-wall metacinema trickery of his early films and maturing into a seasoned, audience pleasing maverick. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 6, 2020
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75% | Pieces of a Woman (2020) |
As fragmented as its title suggests, Pieces of a Woman contains parts of a good film, possibly a great one. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 5, 2020
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79% | I Am Greta (2020) |
This is essentially an uplifting, inspirational story about a girl with Asperger's who turns her difference from 'normal kids' into a strength. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 4, 2020
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75% | Lacci (2020) |
Tor all its sensitivity this is essentially a melodrama, one that feels increasingly static as it unfolds to its 'surprise' denouemnet. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 2, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Art of Living in Danger (2020) |
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| Posted Jun 17, 2020
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100% | Me and the Cult Leader (Aganai) (2020) |
Me And The Cult Leader shape-shifts and grows into something rich, thought-provoking and strangely affecting as it unspools. - Screen International
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| Posted Jun 17, 2020
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No Score Yet | Punta Sacra (2020) |
A film that is both political and poetic. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 30, 2020
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100% | There Is No Evil (Sheytan vojud nadarad) (2020) |
Although There Is No Evil is a brave and impassioned work, the seams show. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 29, 2020
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100% | Days (Rizi) (2020) |
Tsai's enigmas are all the more resonant for their reticence. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 27, 2020
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20% | Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020) |
In modernising 'Berlin Alexanderplatz', Qurbani has created an ambitious but also stridently melodramatic moral parable that seems oddly dated. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 26, 2020
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92% | My Little Sister (Schwesterlein) (2020) |
The pleasure of watching five fine actors feed on each other's crackling dramatic energy drives this sensitive if not exactly groundbreaking Swiss cancer drama. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 24, 2020
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86% | Undine (2020) |
Petzold's lean, crisply-shot tale is a deft shape-changer, switching mood and register, interlacing romance with suspense and sudden jabs of humour. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 23, 2020
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71% | Persian Lessons (2020) |
While plot credibility is the one major flaw of a concentration camp drama that is also a classic survivor story, most viewers will take the major emotional payback the film delivers as sufficient reward for their indulgence. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 22, 2020
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No Score Yet | Numbers (Nomera) (2020) |
For all its tonal wobbles, Numbers, if taken purely as a cinematic manifesto about totalitarianism, works just fine, even smuggling in a few subtle points among its broader targets. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 22, 2020
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63% | Hidden Away (Volevo nascondermi) (2020) |
A touching, poetic, funny-sad portrait of a man who was literally saved from a lifetime of mental institutions by art, as well as a tribute to the fast-disappearing rural culture of the Po Valley floodplain that was Ligabue's adopted home. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 21, 2020
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82% | Summer White (Blanco de Verano) (2020) |
[A] solid, affecting drama... - Screen International
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| Posted Jan 26, 2020
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98% | The Truffle Hunters (2020) |
A slow-burn watch, The Truffle Hunters is a film as distinctive and lingering as the scent of the rare tuber that inspires it. - Screen International
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| Posted Jan 26, 2020
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83% | Pinocchio (2020) |
[Garrone] does something that only the 1940 Walt Disney animated version (which played fast and loose with Collodi's novel) has managed up to now - he gives the tale a universal emotional resonance. - Screen International
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| Posted Dec 13, 2019
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67% | Anton Corbijn Inside Out (2012) |
An intriguing portrait of a photographer and filmmaker who is deeply immersed in the culture and iconography of stardom yet is himself an intensely private, emotionally reticent man... - Screen International
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| Posted Dec 11, 2019
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89% | And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) (2019) |
This melancholic charmer is a choral character study whose slow pacing matches the unhurried lifestyle of its protagonists and the diurnal and seasonal rhythms of the nature they inhabit. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 24, 2019
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93% | Lynn + Lucy (2019) |
What could have been a tight drama can come across as a stilted modern morality play. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 23, 2019
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79% | The Audition (Das Vorspiel) (2020) |
Weisse puts her own, distinctive spin on this film, keeping the audience guessing about whose story this really is, feeling its way slowly towards a bracing, risky dramatic conclusion that suddenly reshuffles the cards we've been dealt. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 23, 2019
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23% | Zeroville (2019) |
A shapeless mess that tires its audience well before the end and is salvaged from oblivion by a few funny, tender or kooky scenes, most lifted straight from the book. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 23, 2019
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69% | Disco (2019) |
It's the empathy Syversen and her lead actress evoke for a free spirit battered into submission that is this tough little film's greatest achievement. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 21, 2019
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No Score Yet | Noura's Dream (Noura rêve) (2019) |
Hinde Boujemaa crafts an uneven but ultimately potent women's drama with her fictional debut. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 21, 2019
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66% | The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020) |
For all the commitment that Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki bring to the central roles, their characters never really emerge as autonomous beings from the faintly preposterous story they're trapped in. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 7, 2019
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80% | The Domain (A herdade) (2019) |
An almost three-hour-long Portuguese family saga that builds through dramatic peaks and troughs to a remarkable portrait of a patriarchal fiefdom gradually being eaten away from both outside and in. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 5, 2019
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84% | Mosul (2020) |
Mosul presents this feral battle as a chaotic middle that has no beginning or end. It's an approach that leaves little space for emotional arcs, but there's just enough character interest to keep us engaged. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 4, 2019
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93% | Babyteeth (2020) |
Casting, and what the cast do with their talents, is one key to why a film that could have gone all indie-twee really beds down emotionally. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 4, 2019
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42% | Guest of Honour (2020) |
Egoyan is so impatient to cut through to the emotional truth that he asks us to take on board a series of lazy contrivances that will test even the most forgiving viewer. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 3, 2019
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82% | The Painted Bird (2020) |
A film that is disturbing for all the wrong reasons. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 3, 2019
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85% | Martin Eden (2020) |
An always watchable take on the hoary old story of the struggling artist that is more interesting in its shape-shifting style and texture than in its rather conventional dramatic core. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 2, 2019
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No Score Yet | Shadow of Water (Chola) (2019) |
Chola is that rare thing, a regional Indian arthouse film made by a director with a distinctive personal style and vision who is working outside of the country's commercial cinema system. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 2, 2019
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98% | La Llorona (2020) |
This taut, accomplished film recounts a dark episode in Guatemala's history as a suspense-laden ghost story based on a myth deeply rooted in indigenous Latin American culture. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 1, 2019
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