Lee Marshall

Lee Marshall's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): Screen International

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Movies

T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
20%	Elisa & Marcela (2019)	The most emotionally authentic part of the film, by far, are the wedding snapshots that run with the end credits... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 13, 2019
No Score Yet	Piranhas (La paranza dei bambini) (2019)	Piranhas feels a bit like a teen movie that just happens to have a Cammora backdrop, rather than a serious, nuanced drama about the paranza system - essentially, the grooming of underage kids as drug runners and Mafia footsoldiers. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 12, 2019
No Score Yet	A Tale of Three Sisters (2019)	A female recentering of Turkish rural history, a celebration of women's life force and spirit of resistance. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 12, 2019
100%	Gully Boy (2019)	Singh busts rhymes with the best of them in this energetic, entertaining film. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 12, 2019
No Score Yet	The Shadow Play (2019)	A chaotic plot stumbles its way towards a feeble denouement. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 12, 2019
No Score Yet	Dafne (2019)	It's a slight but tender film, and would remain a worthy exercise with a made-for-TV feel were it not for a final third that lifts it into richer and stranger territory. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 11, 2019
No Score Yet	Chained (2019)	It feels a little like a string of acting workshop exercises that have been edited into an undernourished story, one that jars especially in an unconvincing final denouement. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 11, 2019
100%	The Ground Beneath My Feet (Der Boden unter den Füssen) (2019)	A seemingly conventional family and social-issue drama... shades engagingly in and out of psychological thriller territory in Austrian director Marie Kreutzer's new film. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 11, 2019
No Score Yet	Hellhole (2019)	[A] quietly absorbing film... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 11, 2019
No Score Yet	System Crasher (Systemsprenger) (2019)	[An] admirable distillation of a tough subject... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 9, 2019
60%	Night Watch (2006)	By far the most enjoyable aspect of the film, apart from its sheer imaginative scope, is the way it grounds its parallel fantasy universe in the everyday life of post-CommunistRussia. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 17, 2018
67%	Cinderella The Cat (Gatta Cenerentola) (2017)	Engagingly plotted, this hard-boiled fairytale has a potentially wider audience than Rak's debut, especially on home ground in Italy, as well as in animation-friendly France and Belgium. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 15, 2018
No Score Yet	In Between (2018)	Cinar displays a deft control of tone, walking the thin edge between comedy of the absurd and a rather melancholy realism, but that is not enough to save what feels (to quote the title) like an 'in between' project for the prolific director. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 2, 2018
88%	Driven (2018)	Once again, two fine central performances bring a clever Colin Bateman script alive, with Jason Sudeikis injecting a well of emotional depth to his portrayal of a scuzzy FBI informant with a small but troubling conscience. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 9, 2018
No Score Yet	The Summer House (Les estivants) (2018)	This is a comedy that wants so desperately to be universal that it only ends up casting a strong reflected light on the hermetically sealed world it depicts. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 6, 2018
62%	American Dharma (2018)	A fascinating but also in some ways frustrating film... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 5, 2018
84%	Monrovia, Indiana (2018)	In its austere way, this is classic Wiseman, a film that takes us into the heart of a community and reveals its inner workings, comforts, fractures and traumas. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 4, 2018
56%	Sunset (Napszállta) (2018)	The story of a stubborn young woman's search for her lost brother in 1913 Budapest is strangely gripping for much of its length, even as the search turns in on itself and evaporates. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 3, 2018
44%	Charlie Says (2019)	Skimpy psychological insight, a clumsy structure and what turns out to be a miscast Smith all contribute towards what seems like a wasted opportunity... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 3, 2018
80%	What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018)	A stirring, committed portrait of black lives at a crossroads in the American South. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 3, 2018
100%	Anons (2018)	The Announcement works just fine on its own terms, as a poised political chamber drama that very gradually opens up to comedy without ever quite divesting itself of a sense of brooding menace. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 3, 2018
87%	Non-Fiction (2019)	It's only gradually that Assayas allows his self-penned script to open the comedy throttle, overlaying this strata of ideas with cute, smart, sexy comic strokes, without ever quite undermining it. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 31, 2018
94%	The Favourite (2018)	Lanthimos' disaffected view of human foibles is present in every shot. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 30, 2018
89%	Tumbbad (2018)	An initially atmospheric yarn let down by weak stock characters and a long veer into fright-free period drama in its over-long middle section. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 30, 2018
67%	On My Skin (Sulla mia pelle) (2018)	[A] tough, dour but compelling drama. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 29, 2018
No Score Yet	Them 2 (Loro 2) (2018)	We come out of the cinema knowing very little more about Berlusconi than we did when we went in. But perhaps that's the point. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 5, 2018
88%	Capernaum (Capharnaüm) (2018)	A film that chooses raw dramatic power over narrative finesse. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 17, 2018
79%	Dogman (2019)	[A] resonant, universal tale of suffering and lost dreams... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 17, 2018
90%	Sofia (2018)	It's a small, worthy, film that works reasonably well, although there's something a little too linear about its structure. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 16, 2018
84%	Long Day's Journey Into Night (Di qiu zui hou de ye wan) (2018)	There are certain dreams that don't make much sense at the time, but leave a great sense of yearning when they're over. That's true of young Chinese director Bi Gan's remarkable second feature in more ways than one. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 16, 2018
99%	Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (2018)	We are confronted with a steely critique of society's (and humanity's) failings - one not seen in the director's work, with this level of clarity, since his quietly devastating 2004 work Nobody Knows. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 14, 2018
32%	Fahrenheit 451 (2018)	Lushly shot and stirringly scored, Bahrani's reboot is a decent stab at an update of Bradbury's 1953 novel for the social media age. What's lacking is the jazzy poetry of the original. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 13, 2018
88%	Arctic (2019)	One man's struggle for survival is served straight-up and well-chilled in Brazilian YouTube phenomenon Joe Penna's debut feature. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 11, 2018
100%	Samouni Road (2018)	[A] powerful documentary about a Palestinian family torn apart by war. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 10, 2018
100%	One Day (Egy nap) (2018)	Szilágyi builds a deeply relevant film that manages to turn 36 hours in the life of a worn-out mother-of-three into a small but powerful drama of ordinary desperation. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted May 9, 2018
60%	The Young Karl Marx (Le jeune Karl Marx) (2018)	A spry romp through the seven years leading up to the drafting of the Communist Manifesto, Raoul Peck's biopic of Karl Marx's early years feels like a mix between a prestige BBC drama and a Marx For Dummies primer. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 8, 2018
88%	The Desert Bride (La Novia del Desierto) (2018)	There's rather too much use of very shallow-focus camerawork (and yes, we get it that Teresa's world-view lacks a certain depth of field), but this is a minor quibble in a film that is a small delight, a perfect cinematic short story. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 10, 2018
100%	Behemoth (Bei xi mo shou) (2017)	Refreshingly undidactic, Behemoth leaves us to work out that, after hell and purgatory, this empty metropolis, made by the industrial monster that ravages the steppes, and the sweat and blood of those who serve it, is the film's tragic, ironic heaven. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 20, 2017
90%	Bye Bye Germany (Es war einmal in Deutschland...) (2018)	Bye Bye Germany takes an old-fashioned approach to period colour, evoking a 1946 Frankfurt still devastated by Allied bombing and war shortages. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 25, 2017
85%	The Square (2017)	But in all its flawed brilliance, The Square remains an original, visceral, uncomfortable and essential viewing experience. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 24, 2017
100%	The Sower (Le semeur) (2019)	The film's only real flaw is the relentless beauty of every single shot. And yet this is not quite a case of style over substance. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 8, 2017
41%	Fireworks (2018)	A fair to middling anime that packs a lot of cuteness into its regulation 90-minute running time, but delivers little ... gender- and generation-bridging magic. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 25, 2017
No Score Yet	Above the Law (Tueurs) (2017)	[A] tasty genre number ... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 8, 2017
94%	The Rape Of Recy Taylor (2017)	An enquiry into the brutal rape of a black woman in 1944 Alabama broadens into an alternative, female-gaze civil rights documentary in Nancy Buirski's latest. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 7, 2017
96%	Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017)	It makes for powerful and stimulating viewing whether or not a game is being played with viewers. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 5, 2017
97%	Ex Libris: New York Public Library (2017)	Meticulous and mostly absorbing ... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 4, 2017
91%	Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)	An intriguing but not entirely successful mix of austere prison procedural (rarely have jail admittance routines been shown in such painstaking detail) and schlocky B-movie. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 3, 2017
90%	Our Souls at Night (2017)	Nothing of what follows will be this surprising, or surprising at all, but that's not to belittle a tender film that goes beyond twinkly silver-haired romance ... - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 1, 2017
87%	The Insult (L'insulte) (2018)	It's a bold and timely play with fire, but also a sensitive, good-humoured probe into human weakness - especially of the male kind. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 31, 2017
91%	Human Flow (2017)	Films rarely fit their titles as snugly as Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei's ambitious, timely documentary survey of the worldwide refugee crisis. - Screen International EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 31, 2017