Peter Bradshaw

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The Guardian
For 2,837 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 Days and Nights in the Forest
Lowest review score: 20 Red Dawn
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,308 out of 2837
  2. Mixed: 1,397 out of 2837
  3. Negative: 132 out of 2837
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    The Color Purple
    This heartfelt movie-musical of The Color Purple sugars the pill and softens the blow, planing down the original’s barbed and knotty surfaces, taking away some of the shock of violence and tragedy and tilting the experience more towards female solidarity and triumph over adversity.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Bradshaw
    The Family Plan
    The script works efficiently and everyone involved sells it hard; there are continuous closeup cutaways to that cute and gurgling baby who never cries no matter what happens. But the sheer robotic sheen of the film in the end works against it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Every Body
    This is a sympathetic and very contemporary study.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Monica
    This is a tremendously crafted, impeccably intelligent film.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Earth Mama
    A piercingly emotional drama, acted with natural flair.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Bradshaw
    The Peasants
    There is visual interest here, but for me the drama isn’t sustained.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    Wonka
    I enjoyed this more than either of the two earlier filmed versions, with Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005. It supplies the chocolate-endorphins.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Three Musketeers - Part I: D'Artagnan
    This is a lavishly produced, very enjoyable innocent pleasure.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Bradshaw
    Eileen
    The performances from Hathaway and McKenzie are vehement and watchable, but the film itself is an unsatisfying and anticlimactic oddity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Leave the World Behind
    As the catastrophe escalates, the movie’s mood music of imminent horror gets gradually and continuously louder, without ever quite reaching a climax of fear – or meaning.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Another Body
    This is a powerful and important documentary, though I have one tiny qualification.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Peter Bradshaw
    Genie
    It’s as if everyone involved is terrified of actually making people laugh in case that gives offence somehow, or disrupts the algorithmic calculation that theoretically makes this a palatable piece of content. The whole thing is as bland as cellophane.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Lost in the Night
    Escalante’s storytelling vigour and his way with an unsettling image keep this film’s voltage high.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Peter Bradshaw
    Control
    Perhaps Control will gain cult status – or inspire a remake. But Spacey’s eerily detached, jaded presence does not do much for his putative comeback.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Mami Wata
    The sleek, stark images of this film are hypnotic; the faces are compelling and the hallucinatory finale is rather inspired. An arresting piece of work.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
    It is a vivid snapshot of a troubled private life at the apex of the US music scene.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Bradshaw
    Mafia Mamma
    Not even the fierce wattage of Toni Collette’s talent can light up this hokey crime comedy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Bradshaw
    Napoleon
    Phoenix is the key to it all: a performance as robust as the glass of burgundy he knocks back: preening, brooding, seething and triumphing.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Bradshaw
    Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
    In the end, the film looks like something that’s been salvaged in the edit, as it muses boringly on life’s great imponderables.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    The Great Escaper
    Well, Caine and Jackson and their ineffable class give this film some real grit: it’s a wonderful last hurrah for Jackson and there is something moving and even awe-inspiring in seeing these two British icons together.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
    The fly-on-the-wall camera has had privileged, intimate access, there’s no doubt about it. But it still always looks like a film which is happy to go so far and no further. Perhaps some more detailed, critical analysis of the music itself would also have been welcome.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Dream Scenario
    Dream Scenario is a cousin to Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich and Richard Linklater’s Waking Life, and very enjoyable; it is at once strangely light-hearted and heavy with menace.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Peter Bradshaw
    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
    This movie finally ties itself into various knots to prefigure the later world of Katniss, but the time to end the Games came long ago.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    The Marvels
    Larson, Harris and Vellani are an entertaining intergalactic ensemble.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    Fingernails
    It is the intelligence and delicacy of the acting which keeps this wobbly contrivance steady.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Bradshaw
    The Royal Hotel
    There’s a lot to admire in the performances from Garner, Henwick, Yovich and Weaving.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Joan Baez I Am A Noise
    The folk singer and counterculture veteran Joan Baez is the subject of this intimate and painful documentary, which brings us to the brink of a terribly traumatic revelation that it can’t quite bear to spell out.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
    It is a record of the past, but an almost unbearable warning of agony yet to come.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Bradshaw
    Beyond Utopia
    It’s an outstanding documentary.
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