Lee Israel was selfish, cold, sad, and disreputable. She was also really fun to know. Sookie nails this one....
A review by Gimly
6.0
Written by Gimly on 3 / Feb / 2019
Mad props to Melissa McCarthy for turning it around with this after _Happytime Murders_ and _Life of the Party_. Actually after basically every single thing I've seen her in up until this point. I hon...
A review by Stephen Campbell
8.0
Written by Stephen Campbell on 1 / Jul / 2019
**_Unexpectedly emotional, with a towering central performance_**
> _I had never known anything but up in my career, had never received even one of those formatted no-thank-you slips that successfu...
A review by CinemaSerf
7.0
Written by CinemaSerf on 4 / May / 2024
Melissa McCarthy is outstanding in this retrospective dealing with the more "creative" aspects of the later career of acclaimed author Lee Israel. She genuinely elicits sympathy for the emptiness in, ...