Lee
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: September 27, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
14
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 24, 2024
Kuras’s film, especially the paint-by-numbers script credited to a trio of writers, seems to oddly object to such a strong spirit, boxing the character into the most formulaic of narratives. Read full review
60
Total FilmKate StablesSep 11, 2024
Exploring how a one-time surrealist art muse fought to report atrocities, this handsome but rather conventional biopic showcases a tip-top Winslet performance, but at times meanders like a weighty Wikipedia entry. Read full review
60
EmpireSophie ButcherSep 9, 2024
Despite some tired storytelling devices, Lee is a handsomely made, moving biopic of a subject who deserves to be honoured — with stellar chemistry and performances from Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg. Read full review
60
Time OutAlex SimsSep 6, 2024
As an argument for how urgent and powerful photography can be, and the debt we owe Miller for the lengths she went to take those images, Lee wins hands down. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeSep 11, 2023
Kuras’ film is competent, polished and awards-ready. And while that all makes for a fine viewing experience, the movie also feels at odds with its subject — a restless woman whose passion and hurt drove her to action. Read full review
60
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 10, 2023
Though stirringly headlined by Kate Winslet, it’s a by-the-books affair in almost every respect. Read full review
50
The Irish TimesTara BradySep 11, 2024
For a film that depicts the discovery of the Holocaust, Lee is curiously flat and uninvolving. Miller and the images she captured deserve better. Read full review
50
ColliderNate RichardSep 17, 2023
Unlike the real-life woman, Lee settles on being ordinary when it could have been extraordinary. Read full review
50
IndieWireNatalia WinkelmanSep 13, 2023
Though it is not an unpleasant experience, it is a limp one. Read full review
42
The PlaylistJason BaileySep 10, 2023
Lee knows exactly how it wants to look, yet it has little that’s new or interesting to say. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithSep 27, 2024
Neither the director, Ellen Kuras, a cinematographer and documentarian whose debut narrative feature this is, nor the film’s three screenwriters can solve its essential problem, which is that it amounts to a string of grisly anecdotes. Read full review
40
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiSep 27, 2024
Winslet’s got plenty of fire as the titular photographer, but the biopic’s spark quickly fades. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesSep 26, 2024
A model and artist’s muse turned photographer who shot unforgettable images of Europe at war, Miller was then largely forgotten by the establishment, until her son revived her work after her death in 1977. Underappreciated in her time, one wishes better for her than this underwhelming biopic. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 10, 2023
The life it’s focused on, that of model turned second world war photographer Lee Miller, is an undeniably interesting one, but it’s only in the briefest of moments that the film justifies why it’s a narrative endeavour rather than a documentary and every one of those moments comes courtesy of its lead. Read full review
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