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Peter Rainer

Peter Rainer

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Christian Science Monitor , Los Angeles Times , New York Magazine
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
1759

Best Reviewed Films

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A 100% This Is Not a Film (2012) " A simple description of what transpires in This Is Not a Film doesn't begin to convey its power." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 24, 2012
A 90% In Darkness (2012) " Holland and her screenwriter David Shamoon understand that suffering isn't necessarily ennobling and that sometimes goodness emanates from the unlikeliest sources." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 17, 2012
A 94% The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) " The Secret World of Arrietty is a marvelously captivating animated feature about very tiny people and the full-scale world they inhabit." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 17, 2012
A 99% A Separation (2011) " A Separation is not the work of a constrained artist. It's a great movie in which the full range of human interaction seems to play itself out before our eyes." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 4, 2012
A 89% The Descendants (2011) " This is a modest marvel of a movie." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Nov 17, 2011
A 73% Like Crazy (2011) " The emotional honesty of Like Crazy, which is comparable to Richard Linklater's great Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, is far removed from most of what passes in these goony movie days as youthful romance." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 29, 2011
A 76% Rejoice & Shout (2011) " There have been other terrific documentaries about gospel, but this is the first gospel film to draw on an incalculably rich archive of material going back more than 100 years." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 11, 2011
A 96% Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) " Herzog is reaching for ways to comprehend what he imagines to be the emblems of the birth of the modern soul." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 29, 2011
A 93% Of Gods and Men (2011) " One of the most austerely beautiful movies about the monastic life that I've ever seen." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 26, 2011
A 100% Shoah (1985) " At a time when the few remaining witnesses to the Holocaust are passing away, Shoah more than ever stands as a necessary experience." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 14, 2011
A 92% Another Year (2010) " Leigh does not set these people apart from us. They are us." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 3, 2011
A 90% The Illusionist (L'illusionniste) (2010) " A breathtakingly beautiful achievement in every way." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Dec 21, 2010
A 95% The King's Speech (2010) " Among many other good things, The King's Speech, directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler, is a meditation on a transitional time when royalty was expected to speak to the nation and not just pose commandingly before it." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Dec 3, 2010
A 94% On the Bowery (1957) " As a record of a time and a place in the history of New York, it's essential. As a depiction of men at the bottom of their lives, it has the same sorrowful, accusatory force as a great Depression-era photograph by Dorothea Lange or Walker Evans." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Sep 24, 2010
A 100% Last Train Home (2010) " Fan's camera moves sinuously through these people's lives and gives a human face to a national panorama." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Sep 13, 2010
A 97% A Film Unfinished (2010) " It is a privileged experience to watch A Film Unfinished. There is no other historical document like it but, of course, its lasting value is as a human document." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Sep 10, 2010
A 94% Winter's Bone (2010) " For Jennifer Lawrence, she's probably the most gifted actress of her generation. How wonderful that, so young, she has already found a role worthy of her talent." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 18, 2010
A 99% Toy Story 3 (2010) " The best children's films aren't only for children." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 17, 2010
5/5 96% Breathless (À bout de souffle) (By a Tether) (1961) " One of the most famous and influential movies ever made." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 11, 2010
A 64% Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (2010) " A marvelous documentary by art gallery legend and sometime filmmaker Arne Glimcher." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 4, 2010
A 92% Vincere (2010) " Here, in microcosm, is the tragedy of totalitarianism and its impact on the human soul." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Mar 26, 2010
A 87% Araya (1959) " Are you one of those moviegoers who likes discovering forgotten gems? Have I got a jewel for you." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 23, 2009
A 92% Ponyo (2009) " It's unlike any other animated feature -- excepting, of course, Miyazaki's own." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Aug 14, 2009
A 94% In the Loop (2009) " There isn't an actor in this film, not even a walk on, who isn't perfection." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 24, 2009
A 51% Chéri (2009) — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 26, 2009
A 90% Séraphine (2009) " Séraphine is a rare example of a film that does justice to the mysteriousness of artistic invention." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 19, 2009
A 85% Treeless Mountain (2009) " In the end, this melancholy, inspiriting movie achieves a breathtaking emotional harmoniousness." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted May 8, 2009
A 95% The Cove (2009) " Every once in a while it's good to see a movie that makes the blood boil." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 25, 2009
A 91% Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2009) " [Director] Troell, at 78, continues to turn out films that will last for as long as there are movies." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Mar 9, 2009
A 92% Under the Sea 3D (2009) " Under the Sea 3D is a beautiful reminder that movies can take us to places we've never been before. There are still worlds to conquer out there that don't require the gussying up of CGI effects to hold our attention." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 17, 2009
A 97% Entre les Murs (The Class) (2008) " Wherever you were schooled, in public schools or private, in the slums or in the suburbs, you will recognize yourself in this film and laugh and beam and cower." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 2, 2009
A 96% Waltz with Bashir (2008) " Waltz With Bashir is a supremely courageous act, not only as a piece of filmmaking, but much more so as a moral testament." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 9, 2009
A 85% Wendy and Lucy (2008) " It's a resonant little mood piece that packs a great deal into a small compass." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Dec 8, 2008
A 81% Obsluhoval Jsem Anglického Krále (I Served the King of England) (2008) " The world it depicts is too dangerous and too lovely to classify." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Nov 21, 2008
A 63% The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) (2008) " The great conundrum of the Holocaust is that it was perpetrated by human beings, not monsters. Few movies have rendered this puzzle so powerfully." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Nov 7, 2008
A 100% Man on Wire (2008) " By any rational gauge, Petit's WTC obsession was flat-out crazy, but Marsh takes a limpid, nonjudgmental view of it all." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 18, 2008
A 93% Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) " It's a small, radiant gem in a movie season cluttered with rhinestones. You leave the theater feeling both clearheaded and buoyant." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 13, 2008
A 91% The Exiles (1961) " A semidocumentary account of native Americans living in Los Angeles's downtown Bunker Hill, its evocations of loneliness and despair and renewal are among the most eloquent in American cinema." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 11, 2008
a 94% Encounters at the End of the World (2007) " A supremely cranky and lyrical feat." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 13, 2008
A 95% 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) " It may seem perverse to contend that a movie with such a harrowing subject is nevertheless revivifying. But the New Wave of Romanian cinema is the most exciting in the world right now. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is its latest masterpiece." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 1, 2008
A 97% Persepolis (2007) " Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel series has been turned into one of the most complexly moving animated films I've ever seen." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 25, 2008
A 95% No Country for Old Men (2007) " With its dizzying alternations of comedy and horror, the film is unmistakably a Coen brothers movie -- albeit a much better one than they've made in a while." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Nov 20, 2007
A 94% My Kid Could Paint That (2007) " Amir Bar-Lev's documentary is fascinating on all kinds of levels: as a movie about the nature of art, the lure and pitfalls of celebrity, and the complicated conundrums of parenting." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 4, 2007
A 94% In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) " This magnificent documentary about the Apollo missions to the moon contains oodles of original, beautifully remastered NASA footage that has never been seen before." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Sep 6, 2007
A 95% No End in Sight (2007) " Although this is Ferguson's first feature -- he paid for it himself -- it's a masterfully assured piece of filmmaking." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Aug 2, 2007
A 91% Hairspray (2007) " Hairspray is a feel-good musical that, for a change, actually makes you feel good." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 19, 2007
A 79% A Mighty Heart (2007) " On so many levels, A Mighty Heart is almost as excruciating to write about as it is to watch. It has many of the virtues of a first-rate political thriller, and yet who can think of it in those terms?" — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 21, 2007
A 96% Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004) " This is a startlingly funny portrait of Gothic Americana." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted May 31, 2007
A 97% Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (2007) " Killer of Sheep was declared a national treasure in 1990 by the Library of Congress. I agree." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Mar 29, 2007
A 87% Notes on a Scandal (2006) " Blanchett has also recently appeared in The Good German and Babel, but this represents far and away her best work." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 9, 2007
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