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 0.1 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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    White Material
    Claire Denis' drama is an overly fastidious but insight-filled look at post-colonial Africa.
    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Reconstruction
    Both women are impeccably played by Maria Bonnevie.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Goodbye Solo
    Subtle and unflinching, this is genuine and charming.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    The Barbarian Invasions
    The structure similarly misses the flashbacking subtlety of the original. Even the characterisation lacks depth.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Patrick Peters
    Baadasssss!
    This plays very much like a standard biopic, lacking the dangerous spirit of the movie that inspired it.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Iraq in Fragments
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Patrick Peters
    Forty Shades of Blue
    Rip Torn and Darren Burrows respectively over- and underplay their hands in this archly restrained Memphis melodrama.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    The Headless Woman
    Slow-paced and self-indulgent in places but a bravely intense use of camera work to explore the internal psychology of the characters.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Oklahoma!
    A brilliant musical that still looks fresh today.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Patrick Peters
    Cinema Paradiso
    Every bit as enchanting as you remember. Molto, molto bene.
    • 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.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Patrick Peters
    A Hard Day's Night
    Make a date to catch this on the big screen and be rewarded with pure magic.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    A Year Without Love
    Abrasive but affecting.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Wolke Neun
    Disappointing third act to this brave drama about love and sex in our later years.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands
    The breakneck pace, the seething sense of menace and the unflinching attitude to sex, drugs and violence coagulate into a nastily authentic take on the seediness and venality of modern villainy.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Patrick Peters
    Climates
    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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Patrick Peters
    Spirited Away
    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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Taxidermia
    Keeping it surreal has never been so nauseating and, at times, hilarious.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Patrick Peters
    Ellie Parker
    A splendid performance by Naomi Watts holds together this smart and astutely restrained lampoon of life in the Hollywood basement.
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