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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    • 20 Peter Bradshaw
    Blackbird
    In a way, it is amazing that Flatley is able to fulfil a 12-year-old boy’s fantasy of being a secret agent, with a 12-year-old’s idea of what a secret agent actually does. The acting and writing are like the non-sexy bits that come between the sexy bits in a porn film made in 1985.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Knives Out
    What we have is a straightforward murder mystery, but it is told with gusto and humour.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Killer Joe
    It is up to McConaughey's crooked cop to carry the picture: a sleek, loungingly casual loner whose hunger for violence, like his hunger for fried chicken, is finally and horribly gratified.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Hearts Beat Loud
    You might need a sweet tooth for this gentle, Hornbyesque drama from writer-director Brett Haley. But it’s a likable heartwarmer and very decently acted.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Apocalypse in the Tropics
    Democracy has never looked so vulnerable.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Mirror (1975)
    A startling piece of film-making, floating free of the conventional demands of period and narrative.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Folktales
    What seems to be most therapeutic is their contact with the dogs. As one teacher puts it: “You are more than good enough for that dog just the way you are.”
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Challengers
    Moment by moment, line by line and scene by scene, Challengers delivers sexiness and laughs, intrigue and resentment, and Guadagnino’s signature is there in the intensity, the closeups and the music stabs.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    Sorry We Missed You
    It’s fierce, open and angry, unironised and unadorned, about a vital contemporary issue whose implications you somehow don’t hear on the news.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Holdovers
    What a unique talent Giamatti is; it’s a pleasure to see him play a movie lead, his first for a while, and his prominence in this really good film is a signal that the cinema could be moving back to a more approachable world of authentic drama and analogue talent.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    From Ground Zero
    A heartbreaking collection.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Sound of Metal
    Ahmed’s performance clarifies the drama and delivers the meaning of Ruben’s final epiphany. He gives the film energy and point.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Sieranevada
    The proceedings are claustrophobic, intense and alienated – often brilliant, sometimes slightly redundant.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    Hitchcock's 1926 silent melodrama offers a gripping prehistory not just of his own work, but the Hollywood thriller itself.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    Da 5 Bloods
    It’s all so inventively bizarre that you could treat it simply as a black comedy, but in the final 15 minutes there is an amazing crescendo of emotion.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    Archipelago
    There is something exacting and audacious in it, something superbly controlled in its composition and technique. The clarity of her film-making diction is a marvel – even, or perhaps especially, when the nature of the story itself remains murkily unrevealed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Mountain
    The pictures are remarkable. It’s something to seek out on the big screen.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
    Having watched this documentary, I now think the project could also be seen as a gigantic adventure in conceptual art, and this is not to denigrate it in any way.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Pamfir
    There is something nightmarish and hallucinatory about this business and also in the terrible retribution exacted by Oreste, a grotesque mob chieftain. The film has a throb of something disturbing and transgressive.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    Superman
    This Superman alludes explicitly to its origins in the Depression-era comics, and Clark has a quaint 30s habit of using the phrase “Swell!” from his boyhood. Maybe now this movie looks quaint in the same way. But there’s still a surge of adventure and fun.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
    This tender and sweet animation from film-makers Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han is an involving, poignant study of early childhood; how fragile it is, and how strong you feel yourself to be to have outlived or surpassed it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
    [A] riveting and valuable documentary.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Heal the Living
    It is every bit as beautifully made and intelligently acted as you might expect, with some wonderful visual imagery at the very beginning. Yet I was disappointed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Navalny
    Grosev is all about data: by getting hold of passenger manifests, travel details or call records – and everything digital leaves a trace – he can put together an objective picture, even retrieving the culprits’ passport photos. It is quite staggering.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    La Ronde
    It takes its audience on a dizzying swirl, like a waltz, or a champagne-induced headspin.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Assassin
    The movie is a distillation of the assassin’s life of watchfulness, survival and fear. At other times, it has a dreamlike quality: a floating hallucination. The Assassin baffles, but more often it quietly captivates and astonishes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    In Jackson Heights
    It’s an engaging portrait - film-making which works from the ground up.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    Dazed and Confused
    It’s a strange film in many ways, affectless and directionless, coolly refusing the usual dramatic beats and climactic moments, and as unreflective as MOR rock.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Madeline's Madeline
    It’s an immersive and exotic experience. Howard is a revelation.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Captain Phillips
    This a quasi-war movie set in peacetime; these men are fighting to the death, but not for nation or principle or ideology — or at least, not a conscious ideology: they are caught in larger economic currents.
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