Peter Debruge

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Miami Herald, Premiere, Variety
For 1,770 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Debruge's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Josephine
Lowest review score: 0 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,028 out of 1770
  2. Mixed: 593 out of 1770
  3. Negative: 149 out of 1770
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Debruge
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    The situation Rasoulof depicts is hardly limited to Iran. There are echoes of Nazi Germany and modern-day China in the way average citizens submit, while the pressures to inform on one’s neighbors recall pre-perestroika Soviet policies. Rasoulof’s genius comes in focusing on how this dynamic plays out within a family, which makes it personal.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Debruge
    Anora
    Baker’s subversively romantic, free-wheeling sex farce makes "Pretty Woman" look like a Disney movie.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Debruge
    Emilia Pérez
    Audiard wonders how much people really change when they transition. In Emilia’s case, less than she’d like, but enough to inspire positive change in society.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Debruge
    Oh, Canada
    Oh, Canada presents a dying artist’s final testimony as a multifaceted film-within-a-film, honoring Banks while also revealing so many of Schrader’s own thoughts on mortality.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Debruge
    The Damned
    The Damned has a tendency to meander, but in so doing, it strives toward something authentic.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Debruge
    Kinds of Kindness
    Lanthimos trades in discomfort, trusting his audience enough to take his brand of provocation as they please.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Debruge
    Megalopolis
    To call this garish, idea-bloated monstrosity a mere “fable” is to grossly undersell the project’s expansive insights into art, life and legacy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Debruge
    The Second Act
    Dupieux’s strategy seems to be flipping or repeating certain punchlines for fresh effect, which is fine for a while, until you realize that neither The Second Act nor those second-degree readings have much to say.
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    • 70 Peter Debruge
    The Sales Girl
    It takes its time to get there, but in the end, The Sales Girl is about taking charge of one’s own life, where sex is just one dimension of a well-rounded process of self-discovery.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Debruge
    The Grab
    The big picture here is so elusive and vast that it helps Cowperthwaite to have a few intrepid investigators to follow, letting their research drive the shape of the film (which, when you unpack it, must have been one hell of a task to structure).
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Debruge
    The Three Musketeers - Part 2: Milady
    For readers of Alexandre Dumas’ novel, extravagant French adaptation “The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady” packs its share of surprises: killing off important characters, sparing others and reimagining allegiances that have stood for nearly two centuries.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Debruge
    The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
    These guys are so good at what they do, Ritchie fails to muster the expected tension. Instead of suspense, audiences feel a sense of delight in watching them succeed, no matter the setback.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Debruge
    Challengers
    Another filmmaker might have subtracted himself in order to foreground the story, whereas Guadagnino goes big, leading with style (and a trendy score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross).
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Debruge
    Arcadian
    Unfortunately, Brewer and screenwriter Mike Nilon ignored an essential rule: Conceiving an original monster isn’t nearly as important as coming up with compelling human characters
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Debruge
    The First Omen
    Stevenson’s consistently unsettling and gleefully sacrilegious offering packs its share of legitimate shocks en route to one glaringly obvious “surprise.”
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Debruge
    Chicken for Linda!
    Malta and Laudenbach have crafted an entertaining, kid-friendly toon whose power lies less in its plot than the surprising insights into human behavior revealed along the way.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Debruge
    I Don't Understand You
    Things spiral wildly out of control for Dom and Cole, but the foundation feels real.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Peter Debruge
    The Greatest Hits
    “The Greatest Hits” feels like the remainder-bin version of better love stories.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Debruge
    The Idea of You
    This is Hathaway’s movie, and she owns it: independent, desirable and never, ever desperate.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Debruge
    My Dead Friend Zoe
    Hausmann-Stokes’ message is simple, and his movie is a perfect place to start: Take an interest in our veterans.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Debruge
    Civil War
    A literal shock to the system, Civil War is designed to be divisive.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Debruge
    The Fall Guy
    The Fall Guy is funny, it’s sexy, and it features the boy toy version of “Barbie” MVP Ryan Gosling — which is to say, this time around, he embodies the ultimate action figure.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Debruge
    Babes
    With Adlon there to spot them, Glazer and Buteau trust-fall into their respective parts, potentially unlikable qualities and all. At times, the pair get so filthy, you may not believe your ears. But strength, as the saying goes, comes from the mouth of babes.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Debruge
    Damsel
    What matters most is whether we believe Brown in the role, and the “Stranger Things” star has no trouble embodying the kind of quick-thinking independent mind it takes to survive such an adventure.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Debruge
    Ricky Stanicky
    Cena makes it impossible to imagine another person in the part. He’s game to go big, which fits Rod’s frustrated-actor persona, while also having the capacity to play vulnerable and sincere.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Debruge
    Crossing
    With Crossing, writer-director Levan Akin wants to open our eyes to the easily overlooked.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Debruge
    Dune: Part Two
    Villeneuve treats each shot as if it could be a painting. Every design choice seems handed down through millennia of alternative human history, from arcane hieroglyphics to a slew of creative masks and veils meant to conceal the faces of those manipulating the levers of power, nearly all of them women.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Debruge
    Lousy Carter
    We’ve all seen movies like “Lousy Carter” before, and this one’s adequate, without being particularly insightful or memorable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Debruge
    La Cocina
    A chaotic symphony of nearly two dozen characters, this black-and-white indie confection (garnished with sparing touches of color) mixes biting social critique with stylistic bravura.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Peter Debruge
    Madame Web
    Madame Web feels like a cross between an extended soda commercial and a teaser trailer for still more spinoffs.
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