Peter Sobczynski

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For 324 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Sobczynski's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 Allied
Lowest review score: 0 The Starving Games
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 137 out of 324
  2. Mixed: 74 out of 324
  3. Negative: 113 out of 324
324 movie reviews
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Sobczynski
    Devil's Due
    Devil's Due is one of those films that borrows so many key elements from other and often better movies that genre buffs could amuse themselves by composing lists of all the titles that it blatantly rips off throughout.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Sobczynski
    Walking with Dinosaurs
    A film that is not so much bad — although it is quite bad — as it is utterly inexplicable.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 0 Peter Sobczynski
    The Starving Games
    The writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer now take aim at "The Hunger Games" with their latest effort, The Starving Games, and the fact that the title, as witless and uninspired as it may be, constitutes its humorous high-water mark should indicate just how ineptly they handle things this time around.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Sobczynski
    La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus
    What makes La Camioneta so interesting is not so much the story that it tells as it is the way that Kendall has chosen to tell it.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Sobczynski
    Hellbenders
    One of those films that expends so much time and effort in trying to become the next big cult sensation that it never gets around to simply being a good movie.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
    The end result proves to be as awkward as its title thanks to its uneven screenplay and tone, and questionable casting in supporting parts.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    Argento's Dracula 3D
    At least a bit of an improvement over the embarrassment of "Giallo", but no matter how promising the idea of him tackling Bram Stoker's classic might sound in theory, the result cannot be regarded as anything but a disappointment.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Sobczynski
    Herb & Dorothy 50X50
    As the saying goes, I may not know art, but I know what I like. I like this movie.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    Bounty Killer
    Are you consumed by an overwhelming desire to fork over the price of a movie ticket in order to see the kind of meagerly funded nonsense that the SyFy network provides for the price of a basic cable package? If the answer is yes, then Bounty Killer is right up your alley.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    Closed Circuit
    The result is a dreary and derivative thriller that is nowhere near as smart or controversial as it clearly believes itself to be.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Sobczynski
    Paranoia
    Although presumably meant to be a modern-day version of the classic conspiracy thriller "The Conversation," Paranoia is so vapid that it plays like "Antitrust" sans the food allergies.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Sobczynski
    Passion
    Brian De Palma is one of the great seducers of the cinema, and he proves it with Passion, a spellbinding thriller.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Sobczynski
    Tyler Perry's Temptation
    The film is flat-out ludicrous from beginning to end.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Sobczynski
    Alice in the Cities
    There is a timelessness to its explorations that makes it as rich and resonant today as when it was first released.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Sobczynski
    Possession
    To watch Possession again is to realize that it remains one of the most grueling, powerful, and overwhelmingly intense cinematic experiences that you are likely to have in your lifetime.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Sobczynski
    Winter Kills
    It has not lost an iota of its power to shock, amuse, and simultaneously perplex viewers. If anything, it seems to have grown even bolder with age in its willingness to take on sacred cows in the craziest manner imaginable.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Sobczynski
    Suspiria
    Suspiria truly is one of the absolute classics of the horror genre and anyone who considers themselves to be true students of the cinema owe it to themselves to experience it for themselves, especially if they get a chance to see it on the big screen where it belong.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Sobczynski
    Eraserhead
    Here was a film that took elements that one might have encountered in other movies in the past—black humor, gore, surrealism, erotic imagery, gorgeous black-and-white cinematography and oddball performances—and presented them in such a unique and deeply personal manner that the end result was something that literally looked, sounded and felt like nothing that had ever come before it.
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