Patrick Peters

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For 66 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 31% higher than the average critic
  • 9% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Patrick Peters' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Cinema Paradiso
Lowest review score: 40 Reincarnated
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 66
  2. Mixed: 42 out of 66
  3. Negative: 0 out of 66
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Patrick Peters
    An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
    A frustratingly ungraspable movie collage compiled with real visual flair.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Oklahoma!
    A brilliant musical that still looks fresh today.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    The Island President
    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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Prick Up Your Ears
    A decent snapshot of pre-Beatle Britain, this is much more a fact-based gay melodrama than a trenchant portrait of Joe Orton's life, loves and art.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Sketches of Frank Gehry
    A fond and always accessible portrait, but the lack of objectivity and drooling images of Gehry's work deprives this documentary of any objectivity.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Mavis!
    Brimful of glorious sounds, this affectionate fan letter says as much about Pops Staples's artistic and political evolution as it does about his devoted daughter, one of the all-time greats.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    The Barbarian Invasions
    The structure similarly misses the flashbacking subtlety of the original. Even the characterisation lacks depth.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    I Am Divine
    Touching and funny. Waters fans should sign up now.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Hide Your Smiling Faces
    Paced with steady assurance, this gentle bildungsroman is a impressive debut from director Daniel Patrick Carbone.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Watermark
    Beautiful to look at but lacking a strong point.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    The Flower of Evil
    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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Patrick Peters
    Brothers of the Head
    Despite the odd moment of visual bravura, this mockumentary is too aware of its own satirical daring. Consequently, it's never as dark, dangerous or amusing as it thinks - and the soundtrack is diabolical.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Close to Home
    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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Unbranded
    Has its moments of spectacle and danger, but offers too few genuine insights or rite-of-passage epiphanies.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Wolke Neun
    Disappointing third act to this brave drama about love and sex in our later years.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Chinese Puzzle
    A satisfaction conclusion to the trilogy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    Lovingly photographed in a monochrome that recalls Woody Allen’s Manhattan, this is a slickly scripted rom-com.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Suddenly
    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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Torremolinos 73
    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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Dreams of a Life
    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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    A Year Without Love
    Abrasive but affecting.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    The Isle
    Sadly, though, all this arthouse exploitation fails to reveal as much about contemporary Korea as, say, "Texas Chainsaw" did about the States.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Lilting
    Intimate, delicate and delightful.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Daybreak
    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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Unconscious
    It may lack subtlety, but everything is beautifully designed and photographed, Watling and Tosar are superb and it's undeniably great fun.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Don't Move
    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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Fading Gigolo
    The premise is slightly bizarre but there's enough wink-and-a-nod charm in the performances to earn it a pass.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Gemma Bovery
    While the Norman vistas are glorious, the storytelling lacks wit and charm.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    A beautifully designed but overly formal biopic that can't match the greatness of the artists it depicts.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Patrick Peters
    The Man Who Saved the World
    A gripping and unheralded story that doesn't quite get the telling it deserves.
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