It was quite a life, and Lee struggles, like many a biopic before it, to squish it all into anything resembling dramatic shape. The message of the movie seems to be: Kate Winslet wants to give the victims of the Second World War a nice big hug.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Director Ellen Kuras approaches the story skilfully, finding clever personal touches in intense set-pieces, even if the script is never particularly ambitious with the material. And Kate Winslet delivers another powerfully invested performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 17, 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.

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

There’s some lovely cinematography on the war scenes, but sadly this incredible story never quite gets under the skin.

Full Review | Sep 13, 2024

Clearly, a lot of effort has gone into art direction, costumes and make-up, but it's not quite good enough to tell a convincing story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2024

It has moments of sobering power, but they often too prove too few and fleeting thanks to a screenplay which struggles to know quite how to do its subject justice.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2024

It seems the screenwriters feel the need to hold the viewer’s hand at every step of the way. Indeed, the less you know about Miller and her work, and possibly the less you know about World War Two, the more successful the film will probably be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | 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.

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

Lee is an absorbing, and timely tale of bearing witness to war and making sure that the events are preserved so that no one can claim it didn't happen

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2024

... A solid if unremarkable Kate Winslet performance in one of the year’s most unreserved “and then” movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2024

Ellen Kuras’ narrative feature directorial debut Lee spotlights an important, trailblazing figure in the field of war photography who captured so much that needed to be seen by the world which could only be transmitted by her camera.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2024

Ugly and uncomfortable as it can be, the truth of history, and historical truth, must be the only way forward. This is what Ellen Kuras' newest film, Lee, shows us.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2024

The film doesn't live up to Lee's visionary standards — it's unsure of itself, feeling the need to overexplain the narrative at times and take meandering byways that mute the emotional power of the straightest and simplest path forward.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 20, 2023

It’s partly because of how by-the-numbers the project is that [Winslet's] fantastic interpretation of a woman unconcerned with upholding the status quo stands out so intensely.

Full Review | Oct 31, 2023

Winslet elevates this conventional biopic about photographer Lee Miller thanks to her powerful performance. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2023

An imperfect yet admirable portrait of a fiercely independent, headstrong woman who changed the world of photojournalism during World War II. How exciting to finally have her story told on film.

Full Review | Oct 4, 2023

Kate Winslet remains one of our most treasured actors and she brings a fierceness to this role even when the film occasionally coasts. But the film is charged with the remembrances we still haven't learned from and are doomed to repeat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2023

Kate Winslet's performance is the main attraction.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 27, 2023