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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| No Score Yet | Above the Law (Tueurs) (2017) |
[A] tasty genre number ...‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 8, 2017
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| No Score Yet | 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
Read More | Posted Sep 7, 2017
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| 100% | Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - The Story of Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman 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
Read More | Posted Sep 5, 2017
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| No Score Yet | 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
Read More | Posted Sep 5, 2017
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| 100% | Ex Libris: New York Public Library (2017) |
Meticulous and mostly absorbing ...‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Sep 4, 2017
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| 100% | 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
Read More | Posted Sep 3, 2017
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| 83% | 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
Read More | Posted Sep 1, 2017
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| 100% | 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
Read More | Posted Aug 31, 2017
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| 88% | 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
Read More | Posted Aug 31, 2017
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| 68% | Downsizing (2017) |
There's something for everyone in Downsizing - just not a full meal.‐ Screen International
Read More | Posted Aug 30, 2017
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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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| 62% | 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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| 74% | 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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| 83% | 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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| 50% | 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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| 93% | Clash (Eshtebak) (2017) |
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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| 57% | 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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| 68% | 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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| 65% | 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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| 43% | 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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| 80% | 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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| 81% | 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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| 70% | The Unknown Girl (La fille inconnue) (2017) |
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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| 80% | 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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