Lee Marshall
Lee Marshall's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Screen International
| Publications: | Screen International |
Movie Reviews Only
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| 67% | A Gentle Creature (2017) |
The film never regains its delicate balance between women's drama and parable of nationhood; but it remains a fascinating failure.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 25, 2017
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| No Score Yet | Until the Birds Return (En attendant les hirondelles) (2017) |
The film's stories ... are essentially intimate character sketches, with too little thematic resonance to act as a state of the nation fresco and not enough shared chords to mesh on a purely dramatic level.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 22, 2017
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| 70% | Happy End (2017) |
Happy End feels like an assemblage of Haneke's favourite themes, a spread of nibbles that ... never amounts to a full meal.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 22, 2017
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| 100% | The Venerable W (Le Vénérable W.) (2017) |
Shot on the hoof, under the noses of a repressive regime, The Venerable W is a fine, stirring documentary about ethnic cleansing in action.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 22, 2017
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| 28% | How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2016) |
It's all a bit mad, but ultimately rather moving.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 21, 2017
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| 67% | Blade of the Immortal (Mugen no jûnin) (2017) |
Miike is on fine form, never losing his sense of humour, or sense of character, even as yet another axe is embedded in yet another skull.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 18, 2017
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| No Score Yet | Amnesia (2017) |
This plodding drama, centering on the friendship between a young German DJ and an ageing expatriate, never shakes the dust off the pages.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 16, 2017
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| No Score Yet | Bright Nights (Helle nächte) (2017) |
A delicate but grindingly linear, uninflected journey from hatred to hug ...‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Feb 13, 2017
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| No Score Yet | Félicité (2017) |
Felicité is a challenging, perhaps overlong, but also quietly resonant slice of new African cinema.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Feb 12, 2017
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| 51% | The Dinner (2017) |
Feels like an endless string of amuses-bouche with no main course.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2017
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| 97% | Clash (Eshtebak) (2016) |
Topical, watchable and only occasionally over-melodramatic, Clash should travel wherever there are audiences interested in getting beneath the skin of a complex Islamic nation.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Feb 9, 2017
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| 100% | My Happy Family (Chemi Bednieri Ojakhi) (2017) |
A small jewel of a film that gives this women-in-a-man's-world viewpoint a generational shift.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Jan 20, 2017
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| 96% | Seasons (Les saisons) (2016) |
An old-fashioned, beautifully crafted nature documentary for family audiences.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2016
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| No Score Yet | On the Milky Road (2016) |
Mostly this under-scripted romance, with its abrupt shifts of tone from slapstick to serious, comes across as a loud, frantic two-hour Balkan vanity project.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 11, 2016
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| 63% | The Journey (2017) |
Although it breaks no new ground, there's heart, humour, charm and even a little healthy mischief ...‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 7, 2016
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| 64% | Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2016) |
An impressionistic, poetic cosmic journey that asks far more questions than it answers, many of them in Malick's by now familiar quasi-religious rhetorical style.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 7, 2016
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| 44% | The Bad Batch (2017) |
The story runs out of steam - with a full ninety minutes still to go.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 6, 2016
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| No Score Yet | Piuma (2016) |
A small but likeable film that, with only the occasional dramatic lull, spins out one good question for just over ninety minutes ...‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 5, 2016
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| 100% | The Distinguished Citizen (El ciudadano ilustre) (2016) |
Mostly it's the script, performances and sure sense of comic timing that make Cohn and Duprat's follow-up to The Man Next Door such a delight.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 5, 2016
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| 37% | Brimstone (2017) |
[A] tastefully packaged but borderline offensive slice of revenge porn, which starts promisingly but is slowly (alas, very slowly) drowned by backstory.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 4, 2016
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| 32% | In Dubious Battle (2017) |
Too respectful by half of its source material, it gets bogged down, alongside the strike it depicts, in this overlong film's second hour.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 2, 2016
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| 79% | Chuck (2017) |
Stays in the ring, just like its hero, but without much sense of direction.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 2, 2016
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| 0% | The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016) |
[An] arid slab of sex-laced emotional metaphysics ...‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 1, 2016
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| 95% | Prevenge (2017) |
At times, Prevenge feels like a woman's waking nightmare about pregnancy experienced as a loss of control over her own body - a Rosemary's Baby filtered though Lowe's edgy Brit-com sensibility.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 1, 2016
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| 83% | Lights Out (Simon Werner A Disparu...) (2010) |
This genre-bending high-school thriller-drama about three students who go missing at a French lycee opens like a teen B-movie, but soon moves into more intriguing territory.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Aug 18, 2016
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| 100% | Ixcanul (2016) |
Guatemala's active Pacaya volcano is a symbol both of ancient traditions and modern threats in this absorbing, beautifully shot film about the consequences of a peasant girl's pre-marital pregnancy.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Jul 26, 2016
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| 17% | Correspondence (La corrispondenza) (2016) |
A turgid modern ghost story flaunting a showy but ultimately empty blend of love, supernovas and quantum mechanics.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Jul 26, 2016
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| 88% | The Childhood of a Leader (2016) |
The Childhood Of A Leader is as relentlessly sombre and compelling as the film's remarkable, full-volume orchestral soundtrack by musician's musician Scott Walker.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Jul 18, 2016
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| 86% | Divines (2016) |
Crackles with attitude, anger and lust for life.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 22, 2016
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| 85% | Risk (2017) |
Sometimes all a documentary needs to do is to get us in the room with somebody we're curious about.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 19, 2016
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| 64% | The Unknown Girl (La fille inconnue) (2016) |
If the intimate frame and dour, matter-of-fact aesthetic suggest a return to the raw territory of La Promesse or The Son, what is new here is a flirtation with genre that lends an extra dose of resonance to a finely-scripted story.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 18, 2016
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| No Score Yet | Fiore (2016) |
It all makes for a flatline audience experience.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 17, 2016
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| 79% | Personal Shopper (2017) |
It's Stewart's committed account of an introverted young woman's attempt to find emotional closure ... that keeps this odd hybrid of ghost story, thriller, psychological drama and celebrity-culture satire from breaking up into its component parts.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 16, 2016
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| No Score Yet | Chouf (2016) |
[A] small but watchable drama set in the drug-ridden outer suburbs of Marseilles.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 15, 2016
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| No Score Yet | Wrong Elements (2016) |
For those with time to invest, Wrong Elements builds towards a rewarding, poignant and also topical study of a violent, extremist cult's after-effects on those who manage to escape its clutches.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 15, 2016
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| 92% | Toni Erdmann (2016) |
That rarest of things: a nearly three-hour-long German-Austrian arthouse comedy-drama that (almost) never drags.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 14, 2016
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| 92% | A Monster With A Thousand Heads (Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas) (2016) |
It's a nice premise, one grounded and lent empathy not only by a series of strong performances but by the script's point-of-view shifts.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted May 11, 2016
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| 100% | Truman (2017) |
A genuine, likeable, loose-limbed buddy dramedy about impending death, Truman is Catalan director Cesc Gay's first title with true export potential.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Apr 28, 2016
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| 75% | Sworn Virgin (Vergine giurata) (2016) |
[Alba Rohrwacher turns] in a magnetic performance, but despite this and the director's skill at creating emotional resonance out of small things, it's not quite enough to stop the story from feeling a little undercooked.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Apr 19, 2016
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| 88% | My Big Night (Mi Gran Noche) (2016) |
Despite its frequent on-target satire, My Big Night's ropy plot feels like it was written on the back of a serviette one drunken evening.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Apr 11, 2016
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| 84% | Francofonia (2016) |
Rich, complex, challenging.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Mar 30, 2016
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| 94% | Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) (2016) |
The European migrant crisis has found its cinematic Pietà in Fire At Sea, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi's powerful, at times shocking but also intensely human documentary.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Feb 22, 2016
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| 92% | A Quiet Passion (2017) |
Davies takes what is known of the poet's life and turns it into a series of carefully poised dramatic tableaux.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2016
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| 57% | War on Everyone (2017) |
War On Everyone is essentially a clothes hanger for smart one-liners, verbal and visual, and its success will depend partly on how folks like the look of the clothes hanger.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Feb 12, 2016
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| 80% | Mr. Six (Lao Pao Er) (2015) |
A knockout central performance by director and occasional actor Feng Xiaogang, as a former Beijing street fighter brought reluctantly back into the urban fray in order to save his son, is the dramatic anchor of this engaging mainland genre-bender.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Dec 21, 2015
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| 93% | Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015) |
Janis: Little Girl Blue is a classic rock documentary, told using a conventional but well-sifted mix of present-day and archive interviews with performance and backstage footage.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Nov 16, 2015
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| 83% | In the Basement (Im Keller) (2015) |
It's in more conventional observation and confessions to camera that the film really delivers its strange, melancholic universe.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Nov 5, 2015
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| 94% | Sand Dollars (Dolares de Arena) (2015) |
It's a film with a restless motion, a film about people in transit (on motorbikes, on foot, in life), in which the question of whether to stay or whether to go, and if so where, takes on a special, existential resonance.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Nov 3, 2015
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| 95% | The Wonders (2015) |
A rich, strange mix of coming-of-age film and troubled modern pastoral, The Wonders proves that Alice Rohrwacher's spikily original feature debut, Corpo Celeste, was no flash in the pan.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Oct 26, 2015
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| 61% | Yakuza Apocalypse (2015) |
A martial arts enforcer in a giant green frog suit and a mafia knitting circle are just two of the more kooky pleasures of this increasingly unhinged romp, which mixes surreal humour with loud, bone-crushing fight sequences.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Oct 7, 2015
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