Leslie Felperin

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For 845 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: 377 out of 845
  2. Mixed: 440 out of 845
  3. Negative: 28 out of 845
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Kneecap
    There is a fair number of gags and wisecracks that will go over the head of many viewers not steeped in the local lore, argot and history. But the film’s infectious energy, use of in-camera effects, animation and all manner of jiggery pokery is as mesmerizing and giddy as it was when Danny Boyle used many of the same tricks for Trainspotting.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Lord of Misrule
    The film’s best decision is to cast the great Ralph Ineson as an ambiguous local figure of note. With his basso profundo rumble of a voice and air of rough-hewn potency, he’s always a striking figure on stage and screen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Godzilla Minus One
    This is not a cuddly version of Godzilla. He is rageful and entirely incomprehensible, seemingly not even motivated by hunger, desire or revenge. Like a god, he just is, an entity that has become death, the destroyer of worlds, as ineluctable as history itself.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Archies
    The whole shebang is quite bizarre but sort of works, thanks to the brisk pacing of the editing and the joie de vivre that directors Zoya Akhtar and Ryan Brophy inject into the proceedings.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    A Tiger in Paradise
    It’s all quite lovely to look at or even just listen to, making for something that can easily be experienced at home while the viewer is knitting or chopping vegetables.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Night Train
    The execution is dire, with cliche-riddled dialogue as cheesy as a packet of Kraft Singles, stodgy pacing, poorly developed characters and shonky acting.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Bad Behaviour
    The back half is all over the place and doesn’t seem to know what to say – but Connelly never ceases to be anything less than mesmerising as the kind of older woman full of spit, vinegar and shrapnel who could go off at any second.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Teddy's Christmas
    This one has all the Norwegian drama of Yuletide in one tidy package, yes sir.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Aurora's Sunrise
    Perhaps the most remarkable moment comes at the end when the elderly Aurora reflects that she doesn’t want revenge, she just wants those connected to the genocide to be made accountable for it: “sat in the chair” of justice.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Desperation Road
    The direction by Nadine Crocker has all the authenticity of a daytime soap opera. But all the same, there’s no denying that Hedlund and, to a lesser extent, Fitzgerald are pretty good, offering better performances than the film surrounding them deserves.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Inside Man
    In the end this feels a bit too much like a knockoff of a superior product, like something one of these guys would sell out of the boot of their car.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    The Eternal Memory
    Sometimes God is just too on the nose when he makes his creations suffer; but at least Alberdi’s humane, profoundly empathic film-making offers some balm.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
    There’s nothing sentimental about this documentary, which looks at people with the clear, unflinching gaze of a portraitist.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Felperin
    Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
    The lack of cackle-worthy one-liners here and the entertaining but highly predictable last act make this a little bit snoozy for savvier viewers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    The Kitchen
    The Kitchen also has plenty of inventive ideas, creates heady atmospheres in both its dark and lighter moments, and features vivid performances with a large ensemble.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    8 Found Dead
    There’s a certain amount of nasty fun to be had watching the assorted couples get drunk and tear strips off each other, in a metaphoric sense at least, before the violence kicks off – as if Greene were aiming to make a cross between Scream and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Plan C
    Extensive archive news material is drawn on to explain key moments in the struggle over reproductive rights, but mostly the story emerges organically from the interviewees themselves.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
    There must be some limit to how much content you can generate from the franchise’s core formula, which always finds the titular pack of talking puppy heroes saving their perpetually endangered home town, Adventure City, from an assortment of perils.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Klondike
    Unsurprisingly, it all builds to a bleak conclusion, and the film as a whole is a powerful statement that lingers in the mind long after the final credits roll.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
    Like so many of his other movies, it’s pithy, punchy, a little shouty at times, but made with brio and swagger.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Carlos
    Indeed, it is not clear how interested director Rudy Valdez is in Santana, or whether he is just doing this gig as a means to an end.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Gasoline Rainbow
    Gasoline Rainbow pays homage to all the road movies that ever were but is still its own quirky thing, uniquely of its time.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Bolan's Shoes
    Spall keeps the performance tight, projecting not just Jimmy’s damaged psyche but also his wit.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Rally Road Racers
    This is very bizarre stuff, even within the traditionally weird parameters of cultural representation in cartoons, but kids won’t mind as it’s one non-stop riot of colour and vroom-vroom movement.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    One Life
    In some ways, it’s one of Hopkins’ best performances from the last few years, beautifully underplayed, eschewing mannerisms or silly accents. It’s just a shame the film itself, directed by James Hawes, with a script by Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake, is a bit worthy and diagrammatic.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Io Capitano
    While the landscapes, especially in the parched Sahara section of the story, are dazzling, Carnera’s camera always keeps the focus on the humans, sometimes specks seen from great distances moving through the sand and sometimes studied in close-ups that fill the widescreen canvas.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Leslie Felperin
    Green Border
    If cinema is an empathy machine, to paraphrase the late Roger Ebert, then Agnieszka Holland’s new film is one precision-tooled specimen.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Coup de Chance
    This mostly competent but largely uninteresting, bordering-on-silly work upholds the Allen tradition of just carrying on as usual
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Sympathy for the Devil
    If you were programming a season of the best of the worst from Nicolas Cage’s filmography – in other words, his most interesting/outlandish/crazed performances in low-budget films – this kooky thriller would certainly be a good candidate.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Leslie Felperin
    Hit Man
    Given the chemistry between the two leads that could restart a dormant nuclear power plant, viewers are likely to come away sated with pleasure after seeing this delightful work.
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