Leslie Felperin

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The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
For 842 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Leslie Felperin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Toni Erdmann
Lowest review score: 10 Hector and the Search for Happiness
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 374 out of 842
  2. Mixed: 440 out of 842
  3. Negative: 28 out of 842
842 movie reviews
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Last Spy
    Still fully in possession of every marble at the ripe old age of 100, Sichel reflects to camera on his middle-of-the-action view of events during the cold war, and a little tea gets spilled along the way, but not so much that he’s likely to get in any trouble for revealing state secrets. Still, he’s unabashedly critical of some CIA operations, such as the plots to destabilise leftist regimes including that of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala.
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    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Neglected
    For all its cack-handedness, there’s some effort here to grapple with issues around institutional and personal guilt and the wrongs done to young people that might turn them into smirking, giggling serial killers … or mass murderers, depending on how you define the term.
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Blades of the Guardians
    Blades of the Guardians offers a duly impressive spectacle, chock-full of epic set-pieces that lean more on physical effects than CGI, and of course lashings of exquisitely choreographed fight scenes mostly using – as the title suggests – swords.
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Cure
    It’s hard to outline what makes this work interesting without spoiling it, but let’s just say that as a satire it has helicopter parenting, sinister medical innovation to extend lifespan, and our obsession with youth and beauty in its sights. It’s a shame the final chapters don’t quite coalesce these fertile themes in more satisfactory fashion, and the film just ties everything up with some cursory violence.
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Ghost Killer
    Sonomura was the action director for three Baby Assassins features, which might explain that this, his third gig as a main director, feels more weighted towards scenes that showcase fisticuffs and fancy fight choreography rather than character development and emotional nuance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Arco
    For a film about the inevitable eradication of most life on Earth, Arco isn’t as depressing as you might expect, as it finds a tiny thread of optimism to hold on to.
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    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Cookie Queens
    Cookie Queens serves up an eminently accessible and easily meme-able serving of American-girl cuteness, featuring a diverse cast of well-chosen young women.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Dolly
    It’s a bit of a snooze, but Therese is very good at channelling terror and distress.
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Crazy Old Lady
    It’s not a deep work, but it’s relentlessly fun if you’re not squeamish, or indeed sentimental about animals getting killed in the opening minutes.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
    It never provokes full-on out loud laughs, but there are wry chuckles to be had and the ferocity of the execution is pretty fun.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    Borenstein and Talankin keep the focus mainly on the kids and the slow creep of authoritarianism, rather than the adults, but Pasha’s voiceover and occasional address to camera hint at qualities the filmmakers seem hesitant to discuss.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    André Is an Idiot
    There’s nothing radical or groundbreaking about either that message or the film-making on show here, but Ricciardi and Janice’s honesty and indeed that of all those around him, prove to be very moving in the long run, underscoring that there’s as many ways to face death as there are to live life.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Shelter
    Honestly, there isn’t a single step in Shelter’s plot that isn’t entirely predictable, but to the film’s credit the fight choreography is solid (Waugh was a stuntman himself once) and young Breathnach proves, after her turn as Susanna Shakespeare in Hamnet, that she is a find with a future.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Witchboard
    Much less convincing are the shots involving a malevolent maine coon that attacks a drug dealer and turns into a blur of fake cat and visual effects. But the moment is so gloriously cheesy and ridiculous that on its own it almost makes this something worth paying for.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Wrecking Crew
    The whole package is an easily digested guilty pleasure.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    I Swear
    Davidson’s essential likability shines through, thanks in part to Aramayo’s endearing, guileless performance and in part to writer-director Kirk Jones’ machine-tooled script, clearly fact-checked and vetted by the film’s exec producer, the actual John Davidson himself.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Mother of Flies
    Overall, this is better and glossier than some of the Adams-Poser posse’s earlier efforts, but perhaps not quite enough of an evolution to take their vision to the next level.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Franz
    Similarly to his writings, Franz the film is interested in a distilled, abstracted meditation on power, the law, control and desire that transcends the banal borders of realism.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Dreamers
    Writer-director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s script leans perhaps a little too hard on the show-don’t-tell theory of construction, but she and her team make evocative use of simple but effective flourishes.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Homegrown
    Premo’s commitment and grit are palpable — especially when one notes how close to the action he gets during the Capitol insurrection, so that the camera shows every jostle and bump. The sequence, full of shots and footage never seen before , is as chilling, horrifying and disgusting as the many other clips we’ve already seen shot by others.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not
    Best of all, Zenovich and her editor, splicing and dicing 50 years of archive material, get across Chase’s abundant talent at its best, particularly his masterly command of the pratfall, and his immaculate comic timing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Art College 1994
    There’s a sense that this gently meandering, sketchbook-like work is aware of its own cinematic precedents. It certainly seems to suffer from an anxiety of influence as it tries to carve out a space for itself somewhere in the region of Eric Rohmer wistful romances, Richard Linklater ensemble stories, and Sixth Generation semi-underground Chinese filmmakers like Jia Zhangke.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Europe's New Faces
    The lack of story, structure, or any clear editorial principle is a serious impediment to empathy for these poor, struggling people; the 159-minute runtime feels like four years.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    The Tale of Silyan
    Kotevska depicts the growing bond between man and bird with warmth and humour, and while the musical score is a bit on the sappy side, there are enough drolly astringent touches to make this cockle-warming family viewing, if you have a family that likes stories of unhappy agrarian workers.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    A Desert
    Director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut manages to deliver an impressively creepy horror exercise that’s also a bit of a send-up of horror conventions.
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    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    3 Wishes for Christmas
    One could list all the film’s shortcomings, but that would be like pulling wings off a fairly harmless moth.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Adulthood
    The package has a nasty little swagger that makes it a nice counterpoint to all the holiday cheer coming our way.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Leslie Felperin
    Predators
    It’s too soon to know for sure, but this may end up being ranked as one of the best nonfiction films of the year.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Leslie Felperin
    Love+War
    What’s quite novel about this work, as opposed to any number of well-made docs about (mostly male) war photographers, is that it directly addresses how Addario’s job impacts her as a mother.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Coexistence, My Ass!
    At heart, it’s a story that shows no clear ending yet, and Noam makes for a fine guide to this purgatory.
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