Leslie Felperin

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The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
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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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Legend
    This ungainly portrait strikes a lot of poses, as if inviting the viewer to admire its impressive cast list, fine period detailing, "cheeky" British humor, and insouciant attitude towards violence. But none of it disguises the fact that the film is also tonally incoherent, vacuous and structurally a bleedin' mess.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Leonor Will Never Die
    Somehow it works on every level: as a moving melodrama about maternal sacrifice and grief, as a domestic comedy, and even as a glorious musical.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Will-o'-the-Wisp
    While the cast’s dancing is very good, on the whole, the acting suggests less training. But that fits the semi-professional vibe even better, creating a work that feels light, quick and quite dirty in every sense.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    The team manages to hit most of the right notes with this perky, peculiar adaptation. Or maybe the film has just enough bright shiny objects and tightly synchronized dancing-child chorus lines to stop anyone from caring about all that problematic whatnot. In any case, it mostly works.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Felperin
    Captain Fantastic
    Especially refreshing, even radical, is its sympathy for characters who read for pleasure and value rigorous thought. Unfortunately, by the end, it’s gone as mushy and ragged as a homespun hemp blanket.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Dark River
    The dominant note is the warm but quotidian realism of Giant rather than the experimental daring of Arbor, yet Dark River yields a perceptive study of family dynamics, unfolding in a changing landscape as prey to economic forces and demographic shifts as any urban center.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
    Squint a bit, relax your mind and you might find in it a touching allegory that accidentally corresponds to our own, collective emergence from the oneiric, mesmeric lull of lockdown life, in which sleeping too much and dreaming about dead loved ones could have become the new going out.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Nine Days
    Although arguably a smidge too ponderous and self-serious for its own good, Nine Days still represents a reasonably promising debut for its writer-director Edson Oda.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Essential viewing for anyone interested in what freedom of information means in the digital age, this passionate, fascinating, unapologetically partial but fair documentary celebrates Aaron Swartz.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Outwaters
    While its craft is certainly interesting, there’s something decadent and empty at its heart.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Riff Raff
    The cast’s enthusiasm, especially that of Coolidge and Murray who are willing to play the most loathsome of people, makes up for a lot.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Mistaken for Strangers
    The result is an amusing, and occasionally touching meditation on fame, sibling rivalry and ambition, with a sweet payoff.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Signal
    A banal and credulity-stretching finale that feels like a bad Twilight Zone episode, but the first hour or so is terrific.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Mystery Road
    The whole thing might have been improved by slightly nippier pacing, but the slow-burn action pays off with a spectacular climactic gun-fight, where the distances are so vast it takes half a second for bullets to find their marks.
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