Maggie Lee

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Variety
For 100 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 14% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Maggie Lee's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Great Buddha+
Lowest review score: 10 From Vegas to Macau III
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 56 out of 100
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 100
  3. Negative: 7 out of 100
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Maggie Lee
    Mojin: The Lost Legend
    Though the film lacks the spooky, macabre spirit expected of this subterranean subgenre, Mongolian-Chinese helmer Wuershan (“Painted Skin II: The Resurrection”) applies his outlandish visual panache to evoke an underground world of ethnic antiquity refreshingly distinct from traditional Han-Chinese culture.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Maggie Lee
    Point Break
    The sense of living dangerously is somewhat lacking as Kurt Wimmer’s emotionally vacant screenplay fails to make audiences care enough about the characters to sweat over their physical exertions.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Maggie Lee
    Lost in Hong Kong
    Trading the earlier film’s goofy fish-out-of-water gags for robust action acrobatics and fail-safe family drama, the laffer induces the warm-and-fuzzies as an ode to Hong Kong cinema and its role in mainland Gen-Xers’ sentimental coming of age.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Maggie Lee
    Go Away Mr. Tumor
    Notwithstanding its bubblegum visuals and relentlessly perky hijinks, the yarn proceeds naturally toward a touching conclusion without high-handed lurches into tragedy or mawkishness.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Maggie Lee
    Veteran
    With a screenplay less bloated than Ryoo’s previous works, and drawing characters who know what they stand for, the film steadily builds up to its sensational catharsis and undeniably satisfying payoff.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Maggie Lee
    Memories of the Sword
    A visually arresting but vacuous, instantly forgettable period martial-arts romance.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Maggie Lee
    The Beauty Inside
    The film reaches a narrative and emotional impasse once it gets past the will-they-or-won’t-they stage.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Maggie Lee
    Wolf Totem
    Despite its magnificent natural vistas and some pulse-pounding action in stunning 3D, Wolf Totem boils down to a familiar environmentalist allegory that doesn’t move or provoke too deeply.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Maggie Lee
    A Hard Day
    It’s the nerve-racking situation that faces our hard-luck protag, with its heady black humor, social satire and a touch of surrealism, that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 80 Maggie Lee
    Dragon Blade
    The writer-director has overcome his tendency to weave florid plots that quickly run out of steam, here forging a coherent narrative that’s strong on physical and emotional drive.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Maggie Lee
    Our Little Sister
    Koreeda’s sensitive yet lucid helming keeps the performances precise yet natural.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Maggie Lee
    Lost and Love
    Notwithstanding some sentimental beats, Peng achieves a delicate balance between bleak realities and a life-affirming attitude, capped by a predictable but necessary catharsis.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Maggie Lee
    Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal
    The decision to binge on CGI action setpieces overwhelms the romantic spark of the central characters, played by impossibly beautiful leads Lee Bingbing and Aloys Chen Kun, while the film’s themes of class division, human desire and hypocrisy find darker, more riveting expression only toward the end.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Maggie Lee
    Gangs of Wasseypur
    The love child of Bollywood and Hollywood, Gangs of Wasseypur is a brilliant collage of genres, by turns pulverizing and poetic in its depiction of violence.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Maggie Lee
    The Taking of Tiger Mountain
    The film’s strength really lies in its thrilling pace and robust action, elaborately choreographed and executed to involve a large ensemble of characters in a gripping way.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Maggie Lee
    Taken 3
    A mind-numbing, crash-bang misfire that abandons chic European capitals for the character’s own backyard.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Maggie Lee
    The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
    The Tale of Princess Kaguya is a visionary tour de force, morphing from a childlike gambol into a sophisticated allegory on the folly of materialism and the evanescence of beauty.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Maggie Lee
    Tiny Times 3.0
    The film’s vacuous characters and inherent vanity have become awfully grating
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Maggie Lee
    The BreakUp Guru
    A helming debut for mainland star Deng Chao and theater director Yu Baimei, who have claimed that they’re pushing the envelope of Chinese comedy but have in fact merely pushed the genre to a new low in terms of racist and homophobic humor.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Maggie Lee
    Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    It’s the robots — endowed here with character-rich physicality and almost human-scaled facial features — who give the film its emotional heft.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Maggie Lee
    Still the Water
    Kawase embraces nature worship and pompous philosophizing in her indulgently mannerist style, which, over the course of two hours, overwhelms a small yet potentially moving story of two teenagers dealing with separation within their families.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Maggie Lee
    Coming Home
    Heartbreaking in its depiction of ordinary lives affected by political upheaval, this ode to the fundamental values that survive even under such dire circumstances has an epic gravity that recalls another great historical romance, “Doctor Zhivago.”
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Maggie Lee
    Cold Bloom
    Maintaining an unhurried tempo and an air of hushed reverence, the pic furtively hints at Shiori’s loneliness and despondency even as she soldiers on, until a series of revelations by Takumi culminates in a liberating finale.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Maggie Lee
    That Demon Within
    Lam’s darkest work to date, one where violence is not just graphic but ugly, and Hong Kong symbolically comes to resemble a charnel house.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Maggie Lee
    Ilo Ilo
    Anthony Chen is remarkably astute in his depiction of the class and racial tensions within such a household, his accessible style enabling the characters’ underlying decency and warmth to emerge unforced.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Maggie Lee
    Commitment
    Tyro helmer Park Hong-soo handles wall-to-wall action, political intrigue and adolescent love with a relentless efficiency that befits his protagonist, even if the execution can feel as methodical as that of a killer checking off a hit list.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Maggie Lee
    CZ12
    Taking more than a dozen credits, including helmer-scribe, Jackie Chan emerges a Jackie-of-all-trades and master of none.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Maggie Lee
    Flu
    The story flatlines as the crisis escalates, falling prey to pedestrian human drama and improbable conspiracy subplots.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Maggie Lee
    Man of Tai Chi
    There’s little in the way of drama, character depth or mise-en-scene to distract from Tiger Chen’s technically dazzling display of human combat in Keanu Reeves’ helming debut.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Maggie Lee
    My Lucky Star
    Wholesome, effortless entertainment that runs smoothly enough but seldom takes one’s breath away in the romance department.
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