Leslie Felperin

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The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
For 844 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: 376 out of 844
  2. Mixed: 440 out of 844
  3. Negative: 28 out of 844
844 movie reviews
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    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Slumber Party Massacre
    It all playfully flirts with horror film conventions, offering up a winking orgy of patently fake gore and irony that’s for the most part pretty fun. At least the cast seem well in on the joke and are clearly having a blast, although the package could have been improved with a fewer sharper one-liners and tauter comic timing.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Clifford the Big Red Dog
    It’s watchable and even occasionally amusing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Rebel Dykes
    A judicious mix of new-minted interviews, home video footage and charming animation by Shanahan makes for a delightful, well-tempered package.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
    The competence of the action sequences compensates somewhat for the underlying lack of wit or humour throughout, unless you count the smile-inducing call backs to ancient 90s technology.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
    [A] televisual but still touching documentary tribute.
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    • 20 Leslie Felperin
    Apex
    [A] cheap and cheerless sci-fi action film.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    13 Minutes
    The production values are a bit too pedestrian to elevate this much above the ordinary.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Warning
    It all works up to an only mildly surprising “shock” ending, which is bad news for all concerned, a twist that would be more tragic if it were possible to feel sorry for any of them.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Cryptozoo
    While a certain disarming naivety infuses the work, it nevertheless packs an evocative punch, with a moral message about intolerance and the need to protect more vulnerable species. It’s also one of the few films that could potentially induce a psychedelic trip with its visuals alone.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Leslie Felperin
    Ali & Ava
    The performances make this worthwhile.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Held for Ransom
    This is another film about a white European mixed up in a Middle Eastern war they barely seem to understand, but on its own terms it’s a story well told.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Beta Test
    Part delicious satire of Hollywood culture and part frustratingly muddled thriller. But the good bits are sufficiently impressive it wouldn’t be fair to hold its flaws against it too much. We mustn’t be greedy for perfection.
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    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    The Survivalist
    The head of steam Keeyes endeavours to build up gets drained away by the endless barely relevant flashbacks.
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    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    The Maid
    Thai writer-director Lee Thongkham’s horror feature is a giddy, gory little treat
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Fever Dream
    The whole thing is a bit bonkers but very beautiful too.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    The Harder They Fall
    The cast has chemistry in all directions, between the romantic matchups but just as much among the menfolk as they bicker, bond and berate one another.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    The Auschwitz Report
    Even for those who know about the Auschwitz Protocols – a report to which the pair contributed that has a weighty legacy in Holocaust history – the film is still intensely impactful. Inevitably, it is profoundly upsetting and disturbing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Percy Vs Goliath
    Walken keeps you watching thanks to his inherent charisma, still undimmed in his late 70s.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Alpinist
    The film-makers’ enthusiasm for his clarity of purpose is all well and good, but it does leave the film prone to hyperbole, and perhaps a more measured, sideways look at the weird dropout culture around climbing would have been more interesting.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    23 Walks
    There are also some well-observed touches, especially concerning the fleeting friendships dog-walkers make with each other and the diversity of London’s population.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Captain Volkonogov Escaped
    Propulsive and tightly constructed ... Flecks of jet-black humor add a wicked sparkle to an essentially tragic narrative.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    Prisoners of the Ghostland
    The result is predictably excessive, noisy and more than a little exhausting. But mostly in a fun way, as long as you’re not bothered by gratuitous violence, incoherence and a deep streak of silly.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Little Girl
    This extraordinary documentary by director Sebastien Lifshitz, who has made many films about the LGBTQ+ experience (Wild Side, Bambi, Open Bodies), achieves a remarkable degree of intimacy with its young subject and her family.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Leslie Felperin
    Together Together
    Together Together suffers a little from being too polite, as a comedy it lacks snarl, and as a drama it lacks, well, event. Nothing much really happens – but maybe that’s the point.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Encounter
    It’s a surprisingly meaty work that works on several levels at once.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Leslie Felperin
    Hellraiser: Judgment
    Where the first few Hellraisers had an interesting if somewhat icky erotic tang to them – alluding to S&M/fetish culture as much as horror, and featuring female protagonists – Judgment is less about desire than just straight-up misogyny and gory, gross-out money shots.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Leslie Felperin
    The Paper Tigers
    Tran adroitly layers the fight sequences, filmed with fluidity and at least substantially performed by the main actors themselves, between frothy layers of blokey banter.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    No Man of God
    Both actors contribute knife-sharp timing and the kind of intensity needed to make this essentially two-man setup work.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Leslie Felperin
    Sweet Thing
    This small, delicate, late-blooming film is quite lovely, and a throwback to the 1990s/2000s craze for semi-improvised, rough and ready indie film-making.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Leslie Felperin
    Surge
    Even though Whishaw is mesmeric, by the end of the 105-minute running time the whole experience starts to feel like being trapped in a broken-down subway car with a violent mental patient.
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