Peter Bradshaw

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The Guardian
For 2,850 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Bradshaw's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Fatherland
Lowest review score: 20 Red Dawn
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,315 out of 2850
  2. Mixed: 1,403 out of 2850
  3. Negative: 132 out of 2850
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Kinds of Kindness
    The effect of it all is elegant and overwhelmingly stylish, yet maybe there’s not a superabundance of substance to go with the style. Kinds of Kindness feels heavier and longer than I expected, as if reaching for a meaningful resolution that might not be there. Yet absence and loss is perhaps the whole point.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    My Rembrandt
    It features an awful lot of very rich, clever, cordially self-satisfied collectors and connoisseurs; their pink, twinkly-eyed faces positively beam out of the screen, and surely Hoogendijk is inviting us to wonder how Rembrandt himself would have painted them.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Bottoms
    Bottoms is actually a bizarrely violent film, and its plot is always teetering on the brink of pure incoherence, but it’s always funny, thanks to the goofy and winning comic presences of Sennott and Edebiri.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Eternal Daughter
    There’s real intimacy and emotional generosity to this psychological mystery from Joanna Hogg – a personal movie which appears to come from the same universe as her earlier Souvenir films – or one very much like it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Mindhorn
    There are such great gags, and it is acted with such fanatical gusto by Barratt that it’s impossible not to root for this unlikeliest of heroes.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Mudbound
    Mudbound is absorbing: the language, performance and direction all have real sinew.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Red Rocket
    With Red Rocket, Sean Baker has given us an adult American pastoral, essentially a comedy, and another study of tough lives at the margin, close in spirit to his lo-fi breakthrough Tangerine.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    La Grazia
    Maybe this film, concluding as it does on a distinctive note of euphoric sentimentality, does not add up to quite as much as the director thinks; but it intrigues, it exhilarates and it shows that Sorrentino is Italian cinema’s heir to Antonioni.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Sharper
    Like the luxury goods that in one scene we see being stolen, the performances are out of the top drawer, and it is a great pleasure to see Moore on such good form: no one cries more needily, and with more nakedly sinister intent, than her.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    One Cut of the Dead
    It’s a movie that rescues the tired zombie trope – without insisting on metaphor or satire.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Burning
    This is a gripping nightmare.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Dreams
    It is quite a vision: mordant, satirical, brutal.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Memory
    This is an absorbing story, acted with superlative delicacy and maturity by Chastain and Sarsgaard.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo
    This documentary is a bit reticent on the subject of racism. It’s not a subject that Trejo addresses, other than to say that cops who used to pull him over now do so to get selfies. Yet it’s an amazing true-life success story.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    13th
    An intensely angry and persuasive piece of film-making, though maybe letting Bill and Hillary off the hook, a little bit.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Nagi Notes
    On the face of it, the film contains a soap-opera’s worth of secret feelings and tumultuous events, including the teenage lovers’ sensational escape from the town during a heavy storm. And yet Fukada maintains a cool distance.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Days of the Bagnold Summer
    Here’s a movie that tells us that the days of summer, like the boys of summer in Don Henley’s song, are going to get outlived by the love they inspire. It’s what happens in this thoroughly sweet-natured, charming and unassuming British film.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    The Coens have given us a hilarious, beautifully made, very enjoyable and rather disturbing anthology of stories from the old west, once planned for television but satisfyingly repurposed for the cinema: vignettes that switch with stunning force from picturesque sentimentality to grisly violence.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Hundreds of Beavers
    The sheer sustained silliness of this spoof silent comedy is what finally compels admiration. It’s like chancing across a bunch of eerily gifted kids by the roadside putting on a bizarrely accomplished, very extended series of magic tricks and circus acrobatic stunts.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    American Honey
    There is a great performance here from Sasha Lane and this is another step onwards and upwards for Andrea Arnold herself.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Dictator
    The Dictator isn't going to win awards and it isn't as hip as Borat. Big goofy outrageous laughs is what it has to offer.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    On the Adamant
    There is a gentle and very happy sense of freedom and possibility aboard the Adamant, and there is enormous warmth, sympathy and human curiosity in this film.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    [A] richly enjoyable documentary.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Good Liar
    This movie rattles along with terrific energy and dash and the flashback sequences show that it’s actually far more daring and ambitious that you might expect. It’s a great duel between McKellen and Mirren.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Miroirs No. 3
    It is highly diverting, elegantly contrived study of an unhappy family group and the cuckoo in its nest.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Nitram
    Nitram is a hypnotically disquieting movie.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    War for the Planet of the Apes
    It’s an engrossing, forthright adventure.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    In the Fog
    In the Fog is an intense, slow-burning and haunting drama.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Never Gonna Snow Again
    There’s a rich confectionery of strangeness, sadness and fear to this very absorbing film.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Buck and the Preacher
    The forthright, punchy screenplay shows Kinoy’s TV background, but there is a galloping energy to the whole drama.
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