Riseborough’s performance is very fine indeed, as she captures all the flaws and attributes of a woman who’s had a very tough life, a woman who has been her own worst enemy, but who somehow survives and endures.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2023

Riseborough’s performance is spectacular -- a high-wire act, from despair to repair and everywhere in between.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2023

It’s a terrible movie, and Riseborough is unremarkable in it.

| Feb 13, 2023

As a showcase for Riseborough’s estimable talent, To Leslie succeeds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2023

Riseborough makes a virtuoso display of the script’s gamut of screen clichés, ranging from loud aggression and wheedling sweetness to humbled desperation and proud defiance...

| Feb 7, 2023

A thoughtful indie that doesn't wallow in despair as it gives us a downtrodden character who's used up her second, third and even fourth chances yet still deserves another a shot of redemption.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 1, 2023

The ending of this film does not entirely measure up to the standard of tough realism set in the rest of the drama, but what a great performance from Riseborough.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2023

This week’s shockerOscar nomination for British actress Andrea Riseborough as an alcoholic single mother from West Texas who squanders her $190,000 lottery win on booze turns a movie no one ever heard of into an absolute must-see. Prepare to be wowed!

| Jan 27, 2023

An award-worthy performance from the reliably exceptional Andrea Riseborough elevates an affecting portrait of the road to recovery that fails to tread new ground.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2023

It's more difficult to follow than it should be, but ultimately I'm glad I stuck with it.

| Oct 14, 2022

An impressive character portrait.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 10, 2022

To be sure, Leslie is her own worst enemy, but she has a disease and there’s still time, maybe just enough time, for her to find the path to recovery. We hold deep hope for that redemption.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 7, 2022

It’s a story often told, but this movie tells it well...

| Oct 7, 2022

A complex portrait of the ways in which trauma and addiction haunt a working-class white family in the South.

| Oct 6, 2022

Riseborough’s performance is nothing short of spectacular. She doesn’t compromise, she doesn’t hold back, but she doesn’t endow the character with any sort of fake flamboyance.

| Mar 26, 2022

A personal and heartfelt drama with yet another stellar turn from the always-great Andrea Riseborough.

| Mar 17, 2022

To Leslie is not the conventional addiction narrative it seems to be. Even when they tee up the expected happy ending, the film goes on for another, crucial, unpredictable beat.

| Original Score: A | Mar 15, 2022

To Leslie doesn’t always make things easy, but it’s deeply touching to watch the film’s characters learn how to share their mutual good fortune.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 14, 2022

To Leslie is a movie about hitting bottom but also a story steeped in grace — and even, within its understated, lived-in aesthetic, tinged with a bit of fairy tale...

| Mar 13, 2022

In To Leslie Riseborough presents the rough and tumble of the films eponymous character with a tender and sensitive rawness and authenticity.

| Mar 13, 2022