Leslie Felperin

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For 848 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: 378 out of 848
  2. Mixed: 442 out of 848
  3. Negative: 28 out of 848
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Sleep Furiously
    Picture's tone is far more poetic than polemical.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Play
    Pic is a little too pleased with its own evenhanded presentation of liberal moral conundrums, but there’s no gainsaying Ostlund’s remarkable achievement in coaxing entirely naturalistic perfs from his young core cast
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Exhibition
    With acute sensitivity, Brit writer-helmer Joanna Hogg’s third feature, Exhibition, explores the difficulty of telling inside from outside, intimacy from estrangement, and revelation from concealment.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    The Angry Birds Movie
    The animation punches well above its weight with properly Looney Tunes-standard sight gags, polished, highly expressive character design, and rendering so intensely computed nearly every barbule and rachis on each individual feather is visible.
    • 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.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Bolshoi Babylon
    Bolshoi Babylon explores the bizarre case in more detail, but grows even more interesting when it examines how this storied cultural institution struggles to survive tempestuous politics both inside and outside the theater walls.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    White Girl
    Seductive and repellent by turns, it’s a title that will provoke fierce love-or-hate reactions, but there’s no question it augurs the arrival of a powerful, audacious new directorial talent.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Ali & Ava
    The performances make this worthwhile.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    The Surfer
    In the end, the film feels too rollicking and self-parodying to be taken seriously, but it strikes just the right tone to make it a fun Midnight movie.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Anna Karenina
    Setting most of the action in a mocked-up theater emphasizes the performance aspects of the characters' behavior, a strategy enhanced by lead thesp Keira Knightley's willingness to let her neurotic Anna appear less sympathetic than in previous incarnations.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Bethlehem
    The film comprises an impressive directorial debut for Adler who demonstrates a confident grasp of pace, place and thesp handling.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    The Secret World of Arrietty
    Although beautifully rendered throughout, with delicate, elegantly drawn watercolor-like illustrations, the picture may seem too plain and simple for the oversophisticated tastes of kids in Europe and North America, while Arrietty herself reps a slightly insipid heroine.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Cheatin'
    Sinuous sequences where one object morphs into another are his stock and trade, and that strength is on ample display in Cheatin’.
    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Robinson in Ruins
    Although rich in ideas and always compelling to look at, writer-helmer Patrick Keiller's latest semi-experimental pic Robinson in Ruins reps a minor disappointment after his outstanding, same-veined previous works, "London" and "Robinson in Space."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Rio
    Like its flight-challenged parrot protagonist, Rio takes a while to get off the ground but manages to soar by the end.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    I Give It a Year
    If the emotional mathematics don’t quite add up, enough diversion is provided by pic’s broader comic setpieces to paper over the cracks.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Kubi
    This challenging, extremely violent, ravishing-looking, intricately plotted adaptation by Kitano of his novel is of interest for its fresh take on a musty genre. That said, it could feel like a slog to watch for viewers who aren’t fans of sword-wielding, screaming samurai movies.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Suburban Birds
    Enigmatic but oddly entrancing feature debut.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Damsels in Distress
    Stillman proves he still knows how to write crackling, articulate dialogue for quirky preppie characters whom he loves laughing at as much as with.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    How to Train Your Dragon 2
    Clearly, these films are the work of people who love animals. More importantly though, going beyond the pat eco-conscious message that every kids’ film has to have, HTTYD2 touches on how complex the emotional bond between a person and an animal can be.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Putin's Kiss
    The picture still tells a riveting story about contempo Russia's darkest side.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Paradise: Hope
    Paradise: Hope has humor and warmth, and shows more genuine affection and kindness toward its characters than Seidl usually allows.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Best Summer Ever
    Although some might argue that not mentioning anyone's difference is a kind of erasure in itself, it's hard not to get swept up in the cast and crew's joyful insouciance. Plus, the cheeky showtunes, co-written by onscreen villain MuMu and executive producer Peter Halby, are a hoot.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    The Whistlers
    The script may hum and buzz with twists and require concentration, but that's not exactly the same as being intellectually satisfying and rich the way Porumboiu's earlier work was. They were closer to profound; this is just clever.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Swiss Army Man
    It’s entirely to the directors and the two lead actors’ credit that what sounds like a bunch of overextended body humor gags of the most juvenile variety evolve, by sheer repetitious attrition, into something bizarrely poetic and strangely touching.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    The powerhouse cast is so capable, the actors just about manage to play the picture as if it were a "Midsummer Night's Dream"-style frothy farce, with marigold garlands and picturesque poverty.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    One Floor Below
    A very fine if not exactly groundbreaking film about, as the title hints, perspective and distance.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Hockney
    An officially sanctioned but pleasingly gush-free cinematic monograph.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    To the End
    Due to the fact that the canvas is broader this time around — and the subjects Lears has chosen to focus on don’t have four discreet, parallel narratives that we can see through to the end — there’s inevitably less coherence to this film strictly in terms of storytelling. Instead, each of these women is trying to make a difference in the climate crisis in very specific ways, but for all of them history keeps interfering.
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