Leslie Camhi

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For 90 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Leslie Camhi's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 90 Aberdeen
Lowest review score: 20 Double Parked
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 90
  2. Mixed: 41 out of 90
  3. Negative: 2 out of 90
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Incantato
    If you can suspend your disbelief regarding Nello's naïveté, this film offers some quiet pleasures.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Camhi
    The Grey Zone
    "No poetry after Auschwitz," Theodor Adorno proclaimed. One sometimes wishes he'd added, "And no big-name cinema either."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Himalaya
    Himalaya lacks such lightness, humor, and grace, offering instead the surface beauty of an ancient and inviolate culture.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Camhi
    Innocence
    Something lured Paul Cox down memory lane, but he should have stayed at home.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Aimee & Jaguar
    Relies on the hefty talents of its two leading ladies.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Being Julia
    Bening's comic gifts make the most of Ronald Harwood's witty screenplay, though she falls flat in her character's rare moments of sincerity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Mostly Martha
    Handsomely shot, German filmmaker Sandra Nettelbeck's third feature suffers from a certain romantic predictability.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    The Jimmy Show
    Backed by a strong supporting cast, Whaley makes Jimmy a vivid character, but he never achieves anything like the tragic grandeur of a Willy Loman. He's at once too earnest and too unappealing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
    Even Mastroianni cannot hold our attention for over three hours.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Wall
    Disturbing and compelling.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Cotton Mary
    Brought to life by the weirdness of its subject matter and the risks Madhur Jaffrey takes in her brilliant performance.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    The Inheritance
    The Inheritance is most effective in its first half...But the film falters as it moves closer to home and the heart, veering off into melodramatic and quasi-surreal scenarios.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Just Looking
    Marshall Karp's script is clever and funny, though studded with anachronisms.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Walk on Water
    The complex questions Walk on Water raises receive only confused answers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    The Great Water
    Despite the choppy script and cartoonishly bad villains, what emerges is a compelling tale of the moral compromises a corrupt system demands of even its most unwilling participants.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Nina's Tragedies
    With improbable charm, Gabizon knits it all together, his characters' sexual obsessions and earthiness tempered by a soulful melancholy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Lucie Aubrac
    This extraordinary story still sparks controversy in France, but in Berri's hands, it never comes alive...a shadow play of historical icons, rather than a portrait of people in love.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Taking Sides
    Flawed but fascinating.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Est - Ouest
    Wargnier has assembled a stellar French and Russian cast, but all that talent can't overcome his heavy-handed screenplay.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    A bit naive and formless.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    The Children of the Century
    It does best when it leaves behind hothouse literary discussions and closes in on these two legendary behemoths, battling for sexual supremacy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    The Triumph of Love
    It's a giddy farce worthy of Lucy and Ethel, and Peploe plays up the buffoonery.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Camhi
    Jet Lag
    The writerly restraint that confines them to the airport is admirable, though the fairy-tale ending in Acapulco seems like a throwaway.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Vanity Fair
    The pacing feels choppy, and the characters' emotions are sometimes too sudden to be believable. (One exception is Rhys Ifans, affecting as Amelia's long-suffering and neglected suitor.)
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Passionada
    There's much to admire here, including an often witty script and a cast that includes Theresa Russell, Seymour Cassel, and the irrepressible Lupe Ontiveros (Celia's mother-in-law).
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    The Sea
    Baltasar Kormákur's wacky version of "King Lear," set in an Icelandic village where virtually everyone plays the fool.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Little Secrets
    The film's broad performances and heavy-handed moralizing strike a note of condescension sure to be heard by the alienated teenager within us all.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Kaaterskill Falls
    The filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urban dwellers. -- Sometimes, though, the editing is choppy, and the film could use more of a script.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Lucía, Lucía
    It lacks the toughness and social insights of its Mexican new wave predecessors like "Amores Perros." And even as the story of one woman's midlife crisis, it's a bit lightweight.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    All My Loved Ones
    It traces a sustained and moving portrait of the worldly Sam, whose despair as the society he embraced abandons him is both clear-eyed and devastating.
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