Marc Lee

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The Telegraph
For 18 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 77% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 23% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 21.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Marc Lee's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 87
Highest review score: 100 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Lowest review score: 60 Cockneys vs Zombies
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    12 Angry Men
    Few film directors can resist the urge to "open out" a story, to broaden the view and bring in as wide a variety of sets and locations as the narrative - and budget - will allow. The genius of Sidney Lumet's astonishingly powerful 12 Angry Men is that he does exactly the opposite: he takes an already small, claustrophobic space - a jury room - and makes it even more confined.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    The Philadelphia Story
    Mercifully, The Philadelphia Story then transmogrifies into one of the smartest, sassiest - and sexiest - movies ever.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    Double Indemnity
    Film noir is the most intoxicating of Hollywood cocktails, and none is more potent than Double Indemnity...It breaks the rules of filmmaking with breathtaking confidence and is all the more satisfying for
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Boulevard, one of the greatest movies about the movies, may be a fiction, but rarely is fiction shot through so glitteringly with real life.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    Apocalypse Now
    It is mystical, daring, poetic, thrilling, appalling and never less than utterly mesmerising.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    The Deer Hunter
    Any movie that lasts three hours should have a damn good reason for lingering so long. At 182 minutes, Michael Cimino's Vietnam War epic is timed to perfection.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Marc Lee
    It's a Wonderful Life
    The inspirational, thoroughly festive ending is guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    Strangers on a Train
    A black comedy, really, based on Patricia Highsmith's source novel - remains a cracking piece of entertainment. It is shot with all his usual invention and style, and a couple of scenes rank among the director's most visually memorable.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    As Mulligan so deftly demonstrates, the story is in the characters, their failings and fragility, their heroism and nobility of spirit. It's in the depiction of heart-breaking cruelty and heart-warming humanity. It's in the innocence of a child's world overshadowed by the evil that adults do.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Marc Lee
    The Long Good Friday
    The terrific close-up showing Harold's look of appalled realisation – and resignation – is unforgettable.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Marc Lee
    Pumping Iron
    Pumping Iron offers a revealing record of his [Schwarzenegger] earliest dalliances in the spotlight.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Marc Lee
    Planes, Trains & Automobiles
    With its deft blend of hilarity and humanity, Planes, Trains and Automobiles is Hughes' most satisfying work.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Marc Lee
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    It's hard to imagine now just how astonishing it was to interrupt the action with a sun-lit frolic on a new-fangled bicycle as the whimsical Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head burbles away in the background.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Marc Lee
    Holiday Affair
    Charming seasonal fare. [15 Dec 2012, p.36]
    • The Telegraph
    • 61 Metascore
    • 90 Marc Lee
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    Hunt, who served as editor on the first three Connery films, gives Lazenby’s fist fights a whipcrack intensity and the ski-jumping, stock car-racing, bobsled-sliding finale is one of the series’ best.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Marc Lee
    Cool Runnings
    Cool Runnings is a charming tale of determined underdogs, with plenty of laughs, moments of real tension, and five engaging performances.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Marc Lee
    Anton Corbijn Inside Out
    Klaartje Quirijn’s engaging film portrait of Dutch rock-photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn goes a long way towards explaining the emptiness and isolation that characterise his work
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Marc Lee
    Cockneys vs Zombies
    Reminders of Shaun of the Dead (2004) abound. However, an endearing cast...and a satisfying mix of gore and gorblimey charm more than compensate.

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