Patrick Peters, Empire
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For 40 reviews, this critic has graded:
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27% higher than the average critic
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68% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.7 points higher than other critics.
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Patrick Peters' Scores
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| Average review score: | 64 |
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40
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 40
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Mixed: 28 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
40
movie reviews
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Patrick Peters 100
The fact that Miyazaki and his team hand-draw the images before they're digitally coloured and animated gives them an artistry that has been woefully lacking from so many recent American features. -
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Patrick Peters 80
This arty approach may dismay hard-core horror fans, but it captures the dark grace of the original with wit and style. -
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Patrick Peters 80
Stealing the show is Suzanne Flon's immaculate display as the matriarch whose good-natured indulgence of her ghastly relations belies a guilty secret. Mercilessly acute and quietly devastating. -
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Patrick Peters 80
Making masterly use of sound and image, this is a desperately sad study of the difficulty people have to communicate and commit in an increasingly insular world. -
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Patrick Peters 80
It may lack subtlety, but everything is beautifully designed and photographed, Watling and Tosar are superb and it's undeniably great fun. -
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Patrick Peters 80
Lovingly photographed in a monochrome that recalls Woody Allen’s Manhattan, this is a slickly scripted rom-com. -
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Patrick Peters 80
Slow-paced and self-indulgent in places but a bravely intense use of camera work to explore the internal psychology of the characters. -
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Patrick Peters 80
A fascinating insight into the disparity between rich and poor, and powerful nations and their less muscle-flexing neighbours. And, unless you're a fish, it's also pretty darn scary.- Posted Mar 31, 2012
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Patrick Peters 80
An Oscar nominee at this year's Academy Awards and for good reason, Falardeau's film is moving, smart and sensitive. Terrific stuff, in short.- Posted Apr 30, 2012
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Patrick Peters 80
This barely conceivable story of neglect and loneliness is given heartbreaking new life by Morley, with Zawe Ashton standing in effectively for the tragic young singer.- Posted Jul 30, 2012
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Patrick Peters 80
Like Spinal Tap's more seriously older brother, Jay Bulger's fond but unsparingly honest film is a treat for fans and music lovers. A juicy slice of rock history.- Posted May 19, 2013
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Patrick Peters 60
The cast are terrific, but byt he end, the film is struggling to stay together as much as the family it depicts. -
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Patrick Peters 60
Ultimately, this potentially intriguing character thriller loses its direction when it turns into a mean-spirited stalk-and-bash actioner. -
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Patrick Peters 60
The action meanders occasionally, but the performances are consistently disarming and Luciano Zito and Diego del Piano’s black-and-white photography complements the mood of ironic melancholy. -
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Patrick Peters 60
Sadly, though, all this arthouse exploitation fails to reveal as much about contemporary Korea as, say, "Texas Chainsaw" did about the States. -
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Patrick Peters 60
The structure similarly misses the flashbacking subtlety of the original. Even the characterisation lacks depth. -
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Patrick Peters 60
Shifting between bourgeois soap, tabloid parable and tale of the unexpected, this three-storied study of salvation in extremis makes for unsettling but compelling viewing. -
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Patrick Peters 60
Castellitto deserves great credit for toning down the melodrama in wife Margaret Mazzantini's novel and producing a very human story about chance, choice and consequence. -
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Patrick Peters 60
This is a gentle, camp but nonetheless revealing satire on how a nation circumvented the social strictures imposed upon it by Franco's fading fascist regime. -
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Patrick Peters 60
A splendid performance by Naomi Watts holds together this smart and astutely restrained lampoon of life in the Hollywood basement. -
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Patrick Peters 60
Strong performances and meticulous direction make this consistently disconcerting, but the subplot distracts from the moving human drama. -
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Patrick Peters 60
A fond and always accessible portrait, but the lack of objectivity and drooling images of Gehry's work deprives this documentary of any objectivity. -
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Patrick Peters 60
Shot over three years, this is one of the more considered and insightful Iraqi documentaries - although some may find its stylistic contrasts a little self-conscious and distracting. -
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Patrick Peters 60
A slyly subversive insight into the role of women in the Israeli military, this is a surprisingly compassionate satire that makes its political points without resorting to caricature. -
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Patrick Peters 60
Keeping it surreal has never been so nauseating and, at times, hilarious. -
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Patrick Peters 60
Disappointing third act to this brave drama about love and sex in our later years. -
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Patrick Peters 60
A beautifully designed but overly formal biopic that can't match the greatness of the artists it depicts. -
