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Lee Zumpe

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Lee Clark Zumpe, an entertainment editor and movie reviewer with Tampa Bay Newspapers, earned his degree in English at the University of South Florida. His poetry and fiction has appeared various publications, such as Tiferet, Zillah, Weird Tales, Modern Drunkard Magazine, and Main Street Rag. Lee lives in Florida with his wife and daughter.

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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) 79% “Yan’s contribution to the franchise is innovative, subversive and entertaining. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Mar 16, 2025 Full Review Gretel & Hansel (2020) 63% “It’s a fever dream of horrors that haunt our collective consciousness from a bygone era – from famine and pestilence to impenetrable forests tenanted by voracious wolves and wicked witches.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Mar 16, 2025 Full Review The Turning (2020) 12% “Sigismondi has literally used a cut-and-paste technique, plucking clever gimmicks and shots from classics of the genre and recycling them here. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Mar 16, 2025 Full Review Color Out of Space (2019) 86% “Mixing graphic body horror, surreal spectacle and shocking psychedelic visuals, [the director] ushers audiences to the tale’s mind-blowing climax that preserves Lovecraft’s nihilistic viewpoint.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Mar 16, 2025 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% “Mendes’ film — based in part on an account told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather, Alfred Mendes — provides a haunting glimpse at humanity’s seemingly incurable recklessness. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Mar 16, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) 51% “Stop pulling at the threads. Admire the characters, the setting, the plot and the conflict. The film has some legitimate shortcomings that deserve respectful criticism, but much of the disparagement and condemnation is unwarranted. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Mar 16, 2025 Full Review The Buildout (2024) 82% “For his feature film debut, Younus has constructed a captivating ideation that is beguilingly resplendent but ultimately insufficient. Its fragmentary, oblique structure leaves too much territory sadly unexplored.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Mar 16, 2025 Full Review Chaos: The Manson Murders (2025) 56% “Morris spends as much time retreading the all-too-familiar timeline as he does exploring O’Neill’s implausible assertions, encumbering the viewer with a jumble of deceptively tantalizing conspiracy theories that don’t survive scrutiny.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Mar 16, 2025 Full Review Scrap (2022) 98% ““Scrap” also excels at reminding viewers — particularly those living paycheck to paycheck, or with only enough savings to withstand a single medical emergency — how close we all are to losing the level of comfort to which we are accustomed.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 48% “It’s lighter fare than “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” though there is still enough peril in the script to keep viewers fully invested.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Kinda Pregnant (2025) 29% “The script is an awkward mashup of incompatible comedic styles, as if a teenage Seth MacFarlane tried writing Nora Ephron fan fiction.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Night Call (2024) 81% “The backdrop of a city draped in darkness — but roiling with restlessness and antagonism as protests against police brutality lead to sporadic skirmishes in the streets — creates an almost dreamlike atmosphere.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) 20% “Its failings are particularly frustrating given the potential of having Georgiou — an interesting, complex character portrayed by the wonderful Yeoh — star in her own series.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Get Away (2024) 74% “Haars never forgets that to make an effective parody of a horror subgenre, the film must incorporate authentic horror elements. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Laws of Man (2024) 17% “Although I really want to love this film, it just doesn’t quite meet expectations. It’s watchable, and it has some wonderful performances. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 100% “Sometimes, it’s nice to watch a film that isn’t blatantly trying to endorse a specific agenda, or proffer deep philosophical insight, or entice viewers into purchasing an endless stream of merchandise.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% “Despite the audience’s acquaintance with the source material, Eggers manages to invoke an overwhelming sense of escalating trepidation and morbid curiosity.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Mudbrick (2023) “Petrovic’s film combines familial tension, menacing atmosphere, and shocking, fanatical devotion to a malevolent god in a story that is both melancholy and, at times, disturbing. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) 48% ““The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” feels like explanatory footnotes that have been rather gracelessly fleshed out to capitalize on the popularity of the intellectual property.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review You Are Not Me (2023) 100% “It is an imaginative approach to underscoring our inherent fears of rejection with an unnerving folk-horror twist lurking beneath the surface.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Feb 20, 2025 Full Review The Piano Lesson (2024) 88% ““The Piano Lesson” is both expansive and immersive. The viewer is drawn into the lives of these characters.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Dec 3, 2024 Full Review It's Coming (2023) 100% “The very fact that [the director] doesn’t appear to inject uncanny elements makes the documentary more disquieting — and, in some ways, more credible.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Dec 3, 2024 Full Review Starring Jerry as Himself (2023) 100% “The ingenious presentation and execution of “Starring Jerry As Himself” gives the film its distinctiveness. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Dec 3, 2024 Full Review Here (2024) 37% “My wife described “Here” as “an emotionally manipulative Carousel of Progress,” and that’s exactly what it is.” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Dec 3, 2024 Full Review Azrael (2024) 71% “Weaving’s performance is exemplary, particularly considering that she must convey a range of emotions — from love and loyalty to fear, grief and vengeance — without uttering a single word. ” – Tampa Bay Newspapers Dec 3, 2024 Full Review
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