Peter Brunette

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For 104 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Brunette's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Lowest review score: 10 There's Something About Mary
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 104
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 104
  3. Negative: 8 out of 104
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Memento
    Despite the first-rate acting, the narrative is the star of this show, so much so that you feel yourself occasionally losing interest in the travails of the characters. Instead, you hang on every word and every tiny object, every cut and bruise in the frame, looking for clues that will help you make sense of what's going on.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Yards
    Don't be misled by claims that you've seen this one already. You haven't, and you should.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Saving Grace
    Has a charm that keeps you involved throughout.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Quills
    The dialogue is sparkingly witty, and Phoenix and Winslet are excellent in what are, after all, meant to be fairly one-dimensional roles.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Sweet Hereafter
    Egoyan's films have always been about the intricacies and basic strangeness of human relationships, rather than about plot or snappy one-liners, but a new moral urgency seems to invigorate this film.
    • Film.com
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Titanic Town
    Authentic contemporary heroine.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Straight Story
    Richard Farnsworth shines as Alvin Straight, a role, one gets the feeling, that he has been preparing for all his life.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Way of the Gun
    If you're interested in heavy-lidded moodiness and lots of attitude, Phillippe and Del Toro can't be beat.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Me You Them
    A quiet film, certainly, but it's filled with small touches that manage to get deeply under your skin by the time the final credits roll.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Billy Elliot
    You'll feel moved and uplifted after watching this well-written, funny movie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    It's epic in every sense of the word, and like most of Chen's historical dramas, not easy to follow.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Saving Private Ryan
    An exceptionally intense movie whose sheer filmmaking power ultimately transcends all its (many) limitations.
    • Film.com
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Wonderland
    Most important, the film is suffused with a light touch and a kind of begrudged humor that feels perfectly natural and unforced and that keeps you involved in the characters' plight.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Thin Red Line
    I was so taken by the film's sublime visual poetry, its telling silences, its finely orchestrated editing rhythms.
    • Film.com
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Aimee & Jaguar
    Its series of quiet but moving realizations of the utter ubiquity of the Nazi horror in every single aspect of life, even something as hidden as a sexual sub-culture, is powerful indeed.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Wild Wild West
    Lots of laughs, lots of fisticuffs, lots of cool toys, lots of stuff getting blown up: Who could ask for anything more from a summer movie?
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Dancer in the Dark
    This is a film like no other this year, and on that grounds alone you should see it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Arlington Road
    It plays lots of cool mind games with the audience -- if in an occasionally incoherent way -- and ends up providing a surprising amount of fun.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Cider House Rules
    Always consistently watchable, but you get the feeling that in the novel --- the treacle is cut with the nasty edge that Irving's writing is capable of.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Mumford
    It's witty, entertaining, often funny as hell and even, at times, surprisingly wise about the human condition.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Ride with the Devil
    Far too deliberate for many--I found its generally contemplative spirit, punctuated at regular intervals by some exciting battle sequences, superb.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Last September
    A Melancholy Delight. Its pacing will undoubtedly seem too deliberate to some, but I found first-time director Deborah Warner's The Last September a delight from beginning to end.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Harry Is Here to Help
    An insistent, insinuating film -- both in terms of its plot and characters, and in its impact on the viewer -- Harry's effects are small-scale but so perfectly pitched that they never seem small.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Rosetta
    This kind of film, in its various manifestations recurring through the decades, gives us confidence that cinema can ultimately get to the heart of things.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Onegin
    A deliciously romantic story, in all senses of the word.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    American Movie
    Hilarious and often moving.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    The Opportunists
    A very small film, as they say in the movie business, but its stylish suspensefulness is nicely leavened by Connell's obvious, and welcome, love for his hapless characters.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Brunette
    Eureka
    A completely different order of cinematic existence than any other film you're likely to see in the near or distant future.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Brunette
    The Limey
    Tender souls who don't like a lot of noise and violence should probably stay away from this very in-your-face film.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Brunette
    Shadow of the Vampire
    It's a great ride, gorgeous, silly and deeply intellectual by turns, but, for all its inventive fireworks, sad to say, it finally doesn't quite work.
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