Michael Leader

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Little White Lies
For 7 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 28% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 72% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Michael Leader's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 80 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Lowest review score: 40 The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Michael Leader
    Arco
    This is primary-colour, major-key storytelling. It is disarming, charming and unafraid to be sincere – especially when it comes to the sparks of inspiration, creativity and connection that are so fundamental to human existence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Michael Leader
    One to One: John & Yoko
    While she shares title billing, Ono is still framed in relation to her husband. And yet, even in passing, she emerges as an engaged, inscrutable and passionate artist: creatively confident where John seems adrift.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Michael Leader
    Starve Acre
    Starve Acre is an undeniably impressive addition to this mini-movement, but it’s perhaps one that works better as a slow-burning aesthetic exercise than as either a nerve-rattling horror or an excavation of national myth, history, or identity.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Michael Leader
    Robot Dreams
    Robot Dreams is Berger’s first fling with animation, and he takes to the new artform with evident and infectious enthusiasm.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Michael Leader
    The Super Mario Bros. Movie
    Since the 1980s, Nintendo has built its reputation on gleeful, ingenious entertainment that delights in design. Conversely, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is empty-calorie, time-filling amusement for the school holidays. In other words, a licence to print money.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Michael Leader
    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    Delicate, yet resonant.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Michael Leader
    The Velvet Underground
    As with both Velvet Goldmine and I’m Not There, Haynes finds an enthralling middle ground between hero worship and ambivalence. There’s no thrill, no intrigue in hagiography. It’s the music, and where it takes you, what it opens up for you, that’s the thing.

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