Kate Winslet's very good in this. Winslet can't help but be good... Despite how good everyone is in this though, it just feels like a standard biopic to me in a lot of ways.

| Nov 3, 2024

This is a conventional biopic that is lifted by Winslet’s performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2024

Winslet’s Miller is a powerhouse -- brave, difficult, tough and outraged by injustice. She’s not easy company, but her integrity is never in doubt. She’s a fascinating character in a film that eloquently does her justice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2024

Kate Winslet is good, though when is she ever not? This isn’t the great American biopic, but it’s a decent one nonetheless.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 1, 2024

However, it does make for a Familiar Viewing experience, as virtually every sequence in this impressively mounted and well-photographed docudrama is straight out of the standard-issue biopic playbook...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2024

Enough cannot be said about the film or Kate Winslet—irritating, admirable, challenging, sometimes unlikeable, always heroic—as she elevates the complex personality conflicts of Lee Miller into a cohesive, resplendent, three-dimensional whole.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 30, 2024

This is a penetrating biopic, and while it may take a familiar shape, the pioneering woman at the center was anything but traditional.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2024

Despite the starry cast and Winslet’s dogged commitment, Lee is a very ordinary film about an extraordinary woman. Four credited writers – John Collee, Marion Hume, Lem Dobbs and Liz Hannah – plus years of rewrites, fail to locate the subject.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 28, 2024

Kate Winslet fills the part near to bursting as a beautiful iconoclast who found her vocation behind a Rolleiflex.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2024

Miller, as portrayed on screen, is gruff, grim, and stoic for most of the story, and we seldom get to see what she is thinking and feeling.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2024

Winslet’s performance demands that we consider the force behind the camera.

| Sep 27, 2024

“Lee” enables Ms. Winslet (who is one of its producers) to burrow into the kind of unglamorous character she loves, but it has the feel of a pet project made to seek awards for her rather than to say anything much.

| Sep 26, 2024

While that may have been true to Miller’s nature, the gritted-teeth one-noteness of it is exhausting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2024

Lee is an unforgettable figure and Winslet sadly is in a forgettable film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2024

The feature directorial debut of noted cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is nothing if not consistent in its abundance of caution. Which is all the more disappointing given the boundary-breaking spirit of its subject.

| Sep 24, 2024

“Lee,” based on Antony Penrose’s biography of his mother, “The Lives of Lee Miller,” is an interesting look at an artist whose true importance, unfortunately, became apparent only many years after her death.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2024

The wraparound of the interivew feels a little contrived, but that's a minor reservation... it's one of Winslet's best roles. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 20, 2024

Lee certainly celebrates Miller as a difficult woman – one who energetically defies every feminine-propriety rule of the age and more. But it gives both its subject and audience the easiest of rides.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2024

Lee, starring Kate Winslet, is the biopic of Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, the singular woman who took indelible pictures of the Second World War... The result tells something like the truth. It makes for a far better film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2024