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Peter Debruge

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: Contra Costa Times , Miami Herald , Premiere Magazine , Variety
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 603

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	——	Jodorowsky's Dune ()	" Highly entertaining." — Variety Posted May 20, 2013
	50%	Wara no tate (Shield of Straw) ()	" An enticing blockbuster concept gets a lackluster execution from Japanese genre director Takashi Miike." — Variety Posted May 20, 2013
	100%	Short Term 12 ()	" Short Term 12 is a film about scars, some physical, others emotional, but all examined with a sensitivity and understanding that cuts deep." — Variety Posted May 14, 2013
	91%	Frances Ha (2013)	" You gotta love Greta Gerwig: Even as the radiant mumblecore star's Hollywood stock continues to rise, the actress remains true to her dramatic roots." — Variety Posted May 13, 2013
	14%	Assault On Wall Street (2013)	" The film seems inexplicably tame, the least interesting execution of a radical concept." — Variety Posted May 12, 2013
	10%	And Now A Word From Our Sponsor (2013)	" Plop plop. Fizz fizz. Oh, what a missed opportunity it is!" — Variety Posted May 9, 2013
	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" The film isn't so much funny as it is merely amusing - a laundry list of inappropriate and potentially embarrassing moments that strive mightily, but never quite manage to land the laugh." — Variety Posted Apr 25, 2013
	41%	Midnight's Children (2013)	" It's a vibrant journey, but not a terribly illuminating one." — Variety Posted Apr 22, 2013
	14%	Oconomowoc (2013)	" At last count, 15,792 people live in Oconomowoc, Wisc. That's about 15,000 more than will see the film that bears its name, a slender absurdist riff on the man-child coming-of-age comedy." — Variety Posted Apr 18, 2013
	57%	Unmade In China (2013)	" Mostly, it's just a sloppy account of a doomed-to-fail endeavor in which Kaufman retroactively feigns naivete about an assignment with too many obvious red flags." — Variety Posted Apr 18, 2013
	27%	The Brass Teapot (2013)	" A fresh riff on "be careful what you wish for" fables." — Variety Posted Apr 2, 2013
	76%	It's a Disaster (2013)	" A smart, character-driven chamber play in which the cataclysmic offscreen event escalates the tensions between four already testy pairs." — Variety Posted Apr 1, 2013
	31%	Emperor (2013)	" Half crinoline romance, half crusty military-history lesson." — Variety Posted Mar 22, 2013
	68%	Trance (2013)	" Superficial pleasures aside, however, the convoluted script jumps and dodges so often, it soon loses the thread of its own story." — Variety Posted Mar 22, 2013
	47%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" Cut past the pic's superficial patriotism, and the message is ironically clear: Never outsource your visual effects when a domestic shop will do." — Variety Posted Mar 20, 2013
	37%	Dead Man Down (2013)	" A derivative collection of brazen plot holes and latenight-cable cliches." — Variety Posted Mar 7, 2013
	43%	Admission (2013)	" What appears on paper to be an ideal three-dimensional, morally complex role for the quick-witted comedienne backfires in practice, relying on Fey to be funny in a movie that works better serious." — Variety Posted Mar 7, 2013
	27%	21 And Over (2013)	" This play-it-safe debut delivers, but doesn't exactly surprise, proving Lucas and Moore like their protagonists wasted, but not their opportunities." — Variety Posted Feb 28, 2013
	100%	Pavilion (2013)	" The beauty of the footage is undeniable, and the aimlessness never overstays its welcome as the film documents that strange stretch in our lives when nothing seems to matter more than the present moment, suspended in a sort of idle immortality." — Variety Posted Feb 27, 2013
	78%	Red Flag (2013)	" Alex Karpovsky picks at a navel better left ungazed." — Variety Posted Feb 25, 2013
	79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" Potter seems at a loss to communicate the ideas behind her agonizingly elliptical picture, leaving auds to marvel at the gorgeous cinematography and scarlet-red hair of its heroine, earnestly played by Elle Fanning in a project undeserving of her talents." — Variety Posted Feb 25, 2013
	70%	Bless Me, Ultima (2013)	" Nearly as sacred as the Good Book itself in some circles, Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima has survived the leap to the bigscreen with much of its magic intact, thanks to a respectful if somewhat wooden adaptation by writer-director Carl Franklin." — Variety Posted Feb 19, 2013
	58%	Snitch (2013)	" Designed to make empathetic citizens question the system, this strangely compelling issue pic plays less to auds' hearts than to their craving for testosterone ..." — Variety Posted Feb 19, 2013
	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" Generally speaking, the action elements aren't the problem here. They're certainly loud enough. It's the obligatory intra-family squabbling and preposterous plotting that threaten to derail this nonsensical sequel." — Variety Posted Feb 13, 2013
	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" The film ultimately plays like so much teenage girl poetry, heavy on the angst, endearingly naive in its notions of love and yet brought vividly to life by a game cast, evocative locations (both indoors and out) and stunning anamorphic lensing." — Variety Posted Feb 11, 2013
	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" With Identity Thief, Melissa McCarthy proves she's got what it takes to carry a feature, however meager the underlying material." — Variety Posted Feb 6, 2013
	——	Google and the World Brain ()	" Ironically, the crew seems to have done most of its research via Google, relying on those who have complained loudest in print, in court or online for comment." — Variety Posted Feb 5, 2013
	80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" "Warm Bodies" offers a welcome twist on the living-dead canon, even if the decidedly femme-skewed results ignore pretty much every rule of the genre." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	——	Magic Magic ()	" Meticulously acted, gorgeously shot and hilariously insightful about the strange, inarticulable ways people can get on one another's nerves, this psychological thriller takes its premise to surprising, darkly comic extremes ..." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	67%	We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013)	" After a long run of Bush-critical pics, it's heartening to see Gibney shift his target to the current administration, demonstrating an ongoing willingness to take on the Man, whoever that may be." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	——	Nieulotne (Lasting) ()	" The result is a striking piece of visual storytelling, as Borcuch relies on lingering, uncut scenes to carry the drama ..." — Variety Posted Jan 29, 2013
	——	The Lifeguard ()	" Drowning in self-pity is about as fun to watch as it sounds." — Variety Posted Jan 23, 2013
	86%	Breathe In ()	" While the plot -- too low-key to be called a thriller -- points toward obvious extramarital cliches, delicate changes in the overall mood reveal deeper truths likely to resonate with middle-aged arthouse patrons." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	38%	Touchy Feely (2013)	" Trading her improv-based filmmaking style for a more traditional screenplay-grounded model, Lynn Shelton delivers an uneven mix of half-formed conflicts in Touchy Feely." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	100%	Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)	" David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints landed with the excitement of a bold new voice, and yet, there's also something undeniably old-fashioned in his approach, suggesting a lost artifact freshly unearthed from the 1970s." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	83%	C.O.G. ()	" The source material may be David Sedaris (this marks the first time the essayist has allowed one of his pieces to be adapted), but the tone couldn't be more Kyle Patrick Alvarez, who once again steers auds to some gloriously uncomfortable places." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	88%	The Way, Way Back (2013)	" An endearingly sweet coming-of-ager." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	——	Sweetwater (2012)	" Boasting a script ripe with overwrought, pseudo-Deadwood dialogue, Sweetwater provides three roles enticing enough to have attracted thesps deserving of better material." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	——	A Teacher (2013)	" As first features go, A Teacher demonstrates a willingness to provoke, but doesn't seem to understand the minimum expectations most audiences place on films in terms of both incident and characterization." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	——	Twenty Feet From Stardom (2013)	" Twenty Feet From Stardom wages a compelling crusade to get background singers some long-overdue recognition." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	93%	Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Wildness ()	— Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	82%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" Overlong and under-conceived." — Variety Posted Jan 22, 2013
	100%	Stolen Seas (2013)	" A dense, sometimes dangerous 90-minute immersion in a world where lawlessness applies to all sides and, shockingly, international shipping companies would rather pay the ransoms than address the underlying problems." — Variety Posted Jan 16, 2013
	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" An impressively pulpy underworld-plunger that embellishes on a 1949 showdown between a dedicated team of LAPD officers and Mob-connected Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) for control of the city." — Variety Posted Jan 7, 2013
	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" An immensely satisfying taste of antebellum empowerment packaged as spaghetti-Western homage." — Variety Posted Dec 12, 2012
	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" Whereas the hyperkinetic actor looks best on the run, Reacher is a slow-moving, six-and-a-half-foot enforcer -- the kind of guy Cruise should be outwitting, not playing." — Variety Posted Dec 10, 2012
	65%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" Fulfilling just a fraction of J.R.R. Tolkien's "There and Back Again" subtitle, The Hobbit alternately rewards and abuses auds' appetite for all things Middle-earth." — Variety Posted Dec 4, 2012

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