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
848 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Lux Æterna
    It's all business as per Noe usual.
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Canary Black
    As visual wallpaper it’s serviceable enough, providing a constant backbeat of blam-blam gunshots and explosions, mostly at night.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
    Through it all we see Richard O’Brien himself, sometimes jamming on a guitar and dropping crisp bon mots, right up to the end when he gets just a little bit weepy thinking about it all. Adorable.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Catch the Fair One
    It takes proper acting talent, boosted by strong direction from Wladyka, to pull the film along the way Reis does. She’s vulnerable, frightening and relentlessly physical.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Percy Vs Goliath
    Walken keeps you watching thanks to his inherent charisma, still undimmed in his late 70s.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Americana
    It doesn’t quite lasso the bronco, but the ambitions of writer-director Tony Tost’s yarn are ambitious and interesting, and he has at least assembled a cracking cast to tell it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    A Glitch in the Matrix
    What’s missing from this fecund brew, which you could imagine being twice as long, is any kind of judgment or analysis of the subjects.
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Tales from the Lodge
    With well-timed rhythms and backchat, the ensemble is quite credible as a gaggle of slightly obnoxious, mildly likable millennials on the brink of middle age.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Clerks III
    Like the junk food that the central characters sell in their convenience store, it’s a strangely moreish brew that you enjoy but feel faintly guilty about consuming, like nachos with cheese-flavoured sauce or a blue slushy ice drink.
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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
    I Used to Be Famous
    This schematic but sweet-natured comedy drama drives down a narrative track as straight and comfortingly predictable as an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Moonshot
    Most welcome of all is the generous sprinkling of good one-liners thanks to screenwriter Max Taxe’s witty script, solid direction from Christopher Winterbauer, and a cast with nippy comic timing.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Freelance
    The package as a whole, with its sun-bleached palette and colour correction that makes its blues pop, is reasonably entertaining, perfectly suited to watching on an airplane while flying to your next holiday destination.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Ava
    Mysius loses control of the tone, and the wayward direction of the last half hour, which unfolds mostly at a gypsy wedding and goes on 15 minutes too long, suggests difficulty finding resolution, a common problem with first films.
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Major
    The producers have clearly paid up for the extras, sets and visual effects making this a lavish work, never dull for a second of its ample running time – even if some viewers may find the sentimentality a little hard to digest.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog
    It succeeds in walking the tonal high beam without falling into soul-destroying bleakness on one side or a saccharinely fake happy ending on the other. That’s no mean feat.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Other Fellow
    The film is more than a little repetitious, especially as it twice shows the black-and-white archive clip of Fleming explaining how he chose the name James Bond.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Difret
    It’s tempting to give this more of a pass because the subject is so noble and so few African-made films make it over here, but it has to be admitted that the some of the acting is a bit ropey and the script is a little too on-the-nose at times.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Archenemy
    Small, imperfectly formed but quite entertaining all the same.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    A pleasant, polished, but somewhat by-the-numbers effort.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Landline
    The farcical elements in the plot take far too long to gel, and Robespierre and company push too hard at mixing sad, silly and sweet.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    V/H/S/Beyond
    Usually anything this many generations into its evolution is pretty exhausted – but this is pretty good, or at least in parts.
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Exposing Muybridge
    The most surprising among them being Gary Oldman. The actor, an English emigrant to California like Muybridge himself, makes some acute observations about Muybridge’s style, technique and mien and adds a bit of Hollywood pizzazz to a story that’s crying out for a biopic.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Killer
    If the plot is a little sketchy, the action, conversely, is drum tight.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Spine of Night
    It’s best not to think too hard about it and just let the striking imagery and saturated colours wash over your retinas.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Seventh Day
    Writer-director Justin P Lange finds a satisfying way to update the possession-exorcist theme for a new generation grown wary of the Catholic church’s old ways, particularly in the wake of the abuse scandals that have shredded the clergy’s credibility in recent years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Kind Words
    It's to the script's credit that it doesn't tie up the story in cute little bows and instead leaves a number of questions unanswered by the end.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Them That Follow
    The cast commit gamely to the material, although the script is a bit underwritten, making sudden shifts in character a little odd and a bit random.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Sweet East
    The section where Lillian tumbles down a film-making rabbit hole is by far the most amusing.
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