Benjamin Lee

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The Guardian
For 618 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 28% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 69% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 12.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Benjamin Lee's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 53
Highest review score: 100 Moonlight
Lowest review score: 20 The Girl in the Photographs
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 104 out of 618
  2. Mixed: 470 out of 618
  3. Negative: 44 out of 618
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Benjamin Lee
    Abigail
    As the plotting falls apart and the wheels truly come off, there’s nothing that strong direction and a work-hard cast can do to keep Abigail from sucking. There’s a lot of blood here but very little else.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Benjamin Lee
    Destroyer
    Kidman fearlessly commits to the filth of it all, whether it’s drunkenly fighting off her daughter’s sleazy boyfriend or jerking off a bed-ridden informant, but her radical transformation and some timeframe trickery can’t mask a plot that feels rather empty.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Benjamin Lee
    Cuckoo
    But as effective as the film might be in the moment, Singer’s increasingly sloppy plotting starts to get in the way of the bigger picture by the frantic last act, which is both strangely filled with exposition info dumps yet still lacking in much sense.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Benjamin Lee
    The Monkey
    The deaths here are neither funny nor scary or even gross enough to linger, we’re all rendered unshockable far too soon.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Benjamin Lee
    Department Q: The Absent One
    An awful number of cliches are being ticked off here (the Fincher-esque lighting, the dogged and socially inept cop), but it’s a diverting potboiler for crime drama completists.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Benjamin Lee
    We Bury the Dead
    In a genre plagued by a lack of effort, I’ll take a solid try.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Benjamin Lee
    Good Fortune
    There are noble intentions to Good Fortune, in ways related to both the resurrection of the big-screen comedy and its of-the-moment through-line about the increasingly untenable class divide in America, but also not a lot of laughs, the idea of its existence more appealing than the experience of watching it.
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