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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Sobczynski
    The New Girlfriend
    One of its greatest pleasures is seeing how filmmaker Francois Ozon manages to find just the right note for such challenging material. He transforms what might have been a tonal nightmare in other hands into a wildly entertaining work, one that manages to be simultaneously funny, touching, slightly unnerving and undeniably sexy to behold, regardless of where your predilections may lie.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Sobczynski
    Goodnight Mommy
    An intelligently staged and executed creepfest that takes one of the most universally compelling of notions — the unbreakable bond that exists between a mother and her children — and approaches it in such a formally and narratively bleak manner that it makes the works of fellow countryman Michael Haneke seeming almost benign by comparison.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Sobczynski
    Coming Home
    What this film may lack in terms of visual flamboyance, it more than makes up for in telling its simple and direct story with a raw, emotional power that doesn't need lavish spectacle in order to get its point across.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Sobczynski
    The Transporter Refueled
    To be honest, this storyline is not noticeably stupider in theory than any of the other "Transporter" films.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 12 Peter Sobczynski
    No Escape
    Films don't get much dreggier than No Escape, a dreadful and creepily exploitative would-be thriller, low-grade trash that it is too silly and stupid to be as offensive as it frequently comes close to being throughout.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Sobczynski
    The Curse of Downers Grove
    Alternately idiotic and boring horror thriller.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 12 Peter Sobczynski
    Return to Sender
    Dreck of the lowest kind — a sleazy exploitation film that is all the worse because it has somehow convinced itself that it is thoughtful and profound.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Sobczynski
    Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
    A wildly ambitious and frequently fascinating film that moviegoers of all ages should find both entertaining and provocative in equal measure.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Sobczynski
    A LEGO Brickumentary
    Most of this is interesting enough, although a little too self-congratulatory at times, but A LEGO Brickumentary never really goes much deeper than that.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Sobczynski
    Pixels
    When one considers how good this material might have been if placed in the right hands, to see it squandered this way makes it almost more painful to view than the typical Sandler stinker.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Sobczynski
    Lila & Eve
    While Lila & Eve is not supposed to be funny — indeed, the central topic is about as unfunny as one could possibly imagine — but nevertheless inspires huge laughs, albeit of the unintentional kind, thanks an idiotic screenplay and a supposedly "shocking" plot twist that even the most inattentive viewers should be able to figure out within the first fifteen minutes or so, tops.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Sobczynski
    The Gallows
    A ridiculous fusion of "Paranormal Activity" and "Glee" that is so incredibly dumb that it is almost, but never quite, scary to behold.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    Big Game
    That is actually one of the key problems with the film as a whole — there are times when it tries to embrace its silliness and times when it wants to be treated as a serious action film and the clash of tones is simply too jarring.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 12 Peter Sobczynski
    Dawn Patrol
    An odious stew of murder, revenge, casual racism and overt misogyny that is all the worse because of its apparent celebration of those ingredients.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    Freedom
    This is one of those movies that is as dull as it is well-meaning and man, is it ever well-meaning.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    Survivor
    The problem is that while it never lapses into complete cartoonishness, it never does much of anything else either, and pretty much plays like a film made for basic cable that is buoyed for a while by a couple of relatively strong central performances before eventually succumbing to terminal mediocrity in its silly final scenes.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Sobczynski
    Echoes of War
    I could not see it as anything more than a giant bore that presents viewers with the most familiar plot devices imaginable but fails to present them in a way that makes them worth sitting through once again.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Sobczynski
    The Connection
    While the results inevitably pale in comparison to "The French Connection" — which could be said about virtually every other film currently in release — they do make for an above-average work that offers viewers a new perspective on a familiar story.
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    • 100 Peter Sobczynski
    The Ocean of Helena Lee
    One of the more unique, evocative and deeply felt coming-of-age films to come along in quite some time.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Sobczynski
    Hyena
    Hyena is such a nasty and brutish item that even the hardiest of moviegoers may find themselves repulsed by some of the sights that Johnson has in store.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    The Forger
    It is nowhere close to being the worst thing that he (Travolta) has ever done, but it never for a single moment makes a plausible case for its own existence.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    Félix And Meira
    It tells a not-especially-interesting story about a not-especially-interesting couple from two different worlds that goes on and on before reaching its not-especially-interesting conclusion.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Sobczynski
    The Harvest
    A smart and strong genre work that makes up for a relative lack of gore and viscera with plenty of tension and suspense and a number of impressive performances.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Sobczynski
    The Salt of the Earth
    The result, though not without flaws, is an invigorating and interesting observation of the man, his work and the entire medium of photography.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Sobczynski
    Do You Believe?
    A film that starts off on a reasonably restrained note but which quickly grows so ridiculously ham-fisted that it almost makes its predecessor seem reasonable and open-minded by comparison.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    The Gunman
    The Gunman isn't the worst action film that you will see this year — you will be lucky if you even remember anything about it a couple of weeks after seeing it — it will probably go down as one of the more dispiriting ones.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    Cymbeline
    Most of the rest of the film surrounding it is a conceptually weak and dramatically muddled mess that has acquired a game and good cast and then given them precious little to do.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Sobczynski
    These Final Hours
    While it does have a few things of interest going for it, this low-budget effort ends up arriving at its necessarily predictable conclusion in too many unnecessarily predictable ways.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Sobczynski
    Chappie
    An exhausting slog through overly familiar cliches that is nowhere near as profound or touching as it clearly thinks it is and is utterly lacking in the kind of intelligence and artistry that it so often pays lip service to in the dialogue.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Sobczynski
    The Lazarus Effect
    This isn't a real horror movie — this is the kind of horror movie that the characters in a real horror movie watch in order to comment on the lameness of the genre before their authentic terrors begin.
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