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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    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Camhi
    Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer
    Marvelously grizzled and tender, Josef Bierbichler's Brecht wheezes and grumbles through it all.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Camhi
    After Midnight
    What makes After Midnight more than just another ménage à trois (in homage to Truffaut) is the way Ferrario, who also writes about movies, weaves the allure of early film into a contemporary story, shot with the latest high-definition technology.
    • 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
    • 80 Leslie Camhi
    In Satmar Custody
    Chilling and thoroughly engrossing documentary.
    • 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
    • 70 Leslie Camhi
    Left Luggage
    Krabbé alternates exaggeration with sentiment, but the main characters are relatively complex, and its surprise ending is genuinely affecting.
    • 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Camhi
    Simon Magus
    Though Hopkins lovingly re-creates the surfaces of shtetl life, its deep spirituality seems to elude him.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Luther
    How did this rude monk, prey to depression and satanic hallucinations, change the course of history? Luther offers scant illumination, for the big brown eyes that served Joseph Fiennes so well in "Elizabeth" are little help with the spirit of Reformation.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Foreign Sister
    Offers an incisive glimpse into one woman's inner transformation -- her secret sense of loss in the midst of plenty and her sudden perception of a world of suffering lying just beyond her home.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Camhi
    Bobby G. Can't Swim
    Montias's script lacks surprises -- Still, the minor figures surrounding him (Bobby) -- from teenage Puerto Rican beauties to a mobster's middle-aged groupie -- form a gritty urban mosaic, and Bobby's wanton energy is utterly convincing.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    The Singing Detective
    The problems come in the shadow world, where everything's a jumble, where Dark's compositional strategy ("all clues and no solutions") eventually becomes wearing, and Gordon's direction can't hold it all together.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    The Three Marias
    He's (director Abranches) so focused on creating a strikingly mannerist visual style that he forgets to flesh out his plot and characters.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Dust
    Manchevski has a rare visual intelligence, whether filming the face of a dying woman or Times Square's reflection in a windshield. But in reaching for a cubist style of storytelling, he sacrifices character and motivation.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Leslie Camhi
    Double Parked
    Child abuse, domestic violence, and the struggles of single mothers deserve better treatment than this.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Camhi
    Fast Food Fast Women
    In his film's better moments, Kollek makes us laugh at these visions while also revealing their grace and frailty.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Camhi
    J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
    It manages to be both ponderous and silly.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Leslie Camhi
    Noel
    Most of the redemptive notes ring false, as does the mythical Manhattan, where the snow is just too clean and everybody lives around the corner.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    The Life: What's Your Pleasure?
    The subjects can be amusing, chilling, or tragic -- but in the end, they offer few surprises.
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    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Love, etc.
    The admirable Gainsbourg refrains from overacting, but her leading men never quite transcend the emptiness and inanity of their characters' dilemma.
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    • 50 Leslie Camhi
    Born to Be Blind
    Berliner captures the eerie beauty of their music alongside their strange dignity. But his mannered style (colored filters, multiple exposures, jump cuts) leaves an uneasy impression about the balance of power in his relationship to his subjects, women of surprising strength and enduring frailty.
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