ROTTEN TOMATOES: Peter Sobczynski

PETER SOBCZYNSKI

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography: Writer. Film Buff.

Favorites: All-Time Faves: Buckaroo Banzai It's a Wonderful Life Duck Soup Dumbo GoodFellas Heathers Jaws Vivre Sa Vie The Shining Rio Bravo Blow Out Faves of 2002 Femme Fatale Gangs of New York Spirited Away Adaptation Punch-Drunk Love Far From Heaven Bowling For Columbine The Pianist Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Resident Evil Faves of 90's GoodFellas Pulp Fiction Three Colors Trilogy Bram Stoker's Dracula Rushmore Short Cuts Seven Until the End of the World Lovers on the Bridge Bullet in the Head

Publications: Critic Doctor, eFilmCritic.com, Hollywood Snitch

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Chicago Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 717

Location: Chicago, IL

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Fresh	Rotten 44%	The Girl From Monaco (2009)	" Luchini and Zern develop a nice rapport in their scenes together that helps to keep the whole enterprise afloat and Bourgoin is enough of a looker to explain why both would become so infatuated with her." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Il Divo (2009)	" Servillo does such a good job of suggesting the drive and intelligence of the man that he automatically becomes one of the great recent cinematic symbols of absolute political power and the questionable means utilized in order to achieve it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 59%	Surveillance (2009)	" There are a couple of admittedly arresting images on display here and there--not enough to make this film worth watching but enough to make you hope that it doesn't take Lynch another 16 years to make another one." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 16%	Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)	" The best thing that one can say about this is that as utterly incoherent action extravaganzas go, it is at least an hour shorter than "Transformers 2."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" "The Hurt Locker" is not only one of the very best films of 2009, it is one of the very best and most exciting war movies of any kind to come along in a long time." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Fresh 70%	Bruno (2009)	" It is proof positive that this emperor of comedy has no clothes, a fact that he seems depressingly eager to demonstrate throughout." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 11%	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)	" I have seen the future of comedy hell and it is named "I Love You, Beth Cooper," a creepy, deeply unpleasant and decidedly unfunny teen comedy that goes on for about 90-odd minutes and inspires nary a laugh, chuckle or guffaw." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 9, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" A sumptuously designed and minutely detailed work that manages to remain compelling despite its essential familiarity while featuring top-notch contributions from everyone on both sides of the camera." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 30, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 44%	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)	" The filmmakers are content to give viewers nothing that they haven't seen before in the previous installments and even those who enjoyed those are going to come away from this one feeling bored and disappointed." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 30, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 44%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" Two straight hours of emotional torture porn that is so brutally assaultive in its determination to jerk tears from viewers that it practically leaps off the screen and into their laps in order to get to them quicker." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 56%	The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)	" An exploitative propaganda piece that seems to exist for only one queasy reason--to allow Western audiences to witness the sight of a woman being brutally stoned to death in a sequence staged with all the sadistic delectation of a slasher movie." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 25, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" Despite having lowered the artistic bar to Death Valley levels, director Michael Bay has somehow managed to figure out a way to slither beneath with the flexibility of the pole dancers-in-training that he prefers to hire as his female extras." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 23, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 17%	Year One (2009)	" It is so bad, in fact, that not only do I feel as though I have sullied the fine reputation of "Life of Brian" by mentioning it in the same paragraph, I fear I may have also sullied the reputation of "Wholly Moses" as well." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 89%	Moon (2009)	" One of the best films of its type to come around in a long while." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 19, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 46%	The Proposal (2009)	" The experience of watching 'The Proposal" is not unlike attending a performance from a cover band specializing in the songs of Billy Joel--both offer up the prospect of two hours of mind-numbing blandness without a single original element on display." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 19, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" One of the more delightful and disarming movies to emerge during this summer season." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 50%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" If you are lucky enough to have seen the earlier classic, it is more than likely that you will find this version is something to be sneezed at after all." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 11, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Fresh 79%	The Hangover (2009)	" A film so completely stupid and hateful that you get the sense that it was financed by the Atlantic City tourism board as a way of besmirching the good name of their chief competition." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 4, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 50%	Easy Virtue (2009)	" What should have been an entertaining diversion for audiences in the mood for an explosion-free evening at the movies instead turns out to be an excruciating misfire on virtually every level." — Critic Doctor Posted May 28, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" A combination of silly humor, startling scares and gags (in every sense of the world) that are simultaneously so goofy and gruesome that you won't know whether to laugh or barf. Trust me, in a film of this type, that kind of comment is high praise indeed." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 28, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" Alternately funny, touching, exciting and visually dazzling, often all at once, this is the kind of film that you genuinely need to see twice in order to fully absorb everything it has to offer." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Summer Hours (2009)	" It is certainly a success, thanks in large part to the lovely performances from the three leads." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Outrage (2009)	" However, when it sticks to its strongest angle--attacking these people for their endless capacity for self-denial--"Outrage" does pack a significant punch and for this reason alone, it deserves to be seen." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 22, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Dance Flick (2009)	" A shapeless and crudely made mess that looks and feels like what you might get from a bunch of kids screwing around with a camcorder at a family reunion (and considering the number of Wayans involved, that could actually be the case here)" — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 62%	The Brothers Bloom (2009)	" Weisz pretty much single-handedly keeps the entire thing afloat with her truly charming and engaging performance." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 22, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 58%	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)	" The most fascinating and provocative work that Soderbergh has done in years." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 22, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" This is yet another hard-sell "family" film that tries to bludgeon viewers into submission with loud and overly elaborate special effects set-pieces instead of charming them with a compelling story or any discernible traces of genuine wit and/or whimsy." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 22, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" That said, the real problem with "Terminator Salvation," when all is said and done, is that it never for a single moment makes a convincing argument for its own existence." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 20, 2009
Rotten 5/5	Fresh 70%	Rudo and Cursi (2009)	" not only does it fail to live up to the high standards of "Y Tu Mama Tambien," it doesn't even live up to the bar set by such earlier soccer films as "Victory," "Goal" and "Kicking and Screaming."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 14, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 14%	Powder Blue (2009)	" They seem to be real and they are certainly spectacular--too bad that one can't say the same for the film featuring them." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 14, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 75%	Adoration (2009)	" This is one of those films that isn't nearly as interesting as the conversations that it may inspire." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 14, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" You most likely won't go to Hell for watching this film, though you will no doubt feel as if you are in Hell while watching it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 14, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 33%	The Limits of Control (2009)	" While "The Limits of Control" is a curiously unsatisfying work as a whole, especially when coming from a filmmaker of Jarmusch's stature, it nevertheless contains a number of undeniably engaging elements." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 8, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" The film is just another noisy space opera in which the humanity takes a back seat to the hardware, something that the real "Star Trek" managed to avoid at its peak moments." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 7, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" This is such a mess of poor editing, cheesy special effects and unconvincing production design that even the Sci-Fi Channel might have had some qualms if it had somehow been offered to them." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 28%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" a.k.a. "The Bride Wore Blah"" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	Sita Sings the Blues (2008)	" The fact that a film this bold and adventurous can even exist in a time when even the independent filmmakers are less likely to find themselves experimenting with concept and form in the hopes of scoring a distribution deal is a cause for celebration" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 86%	Tyson (2009)	" This is an extraordinary portrait of a complicated and contradictory man and regardless of your previously held views towards him, it is complex and thoughtful enough to force you to reconsider and reshape them as a result." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)	" Although my fondness for heavy metal music knows many bounds, I still found "Anvil" to be a charming and enormously entertaining film" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 15%	The Informers (2009)	" Imagine "Crash" with a social disease and you pretty much have "The Informers" in a nutshell." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 67%	The Merry Gentleman (2009)	" The film marks Michael Keaton's directorial debut and if this film accomplishes anything at all, its relative failure may finally inspire him to return to the day job from which he has been missing for far too long." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 18%	Obsessed (2009)	" You would be better served by simply watching the video for the Beyonce-Shakira duet "Beautiful Liar"--not only does it do a better job of conveying the same basic story seen here, the choreography is a lot better." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 30, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" A film that could only possibly entertain two very specific groups of people--those who want to watch Channing Tatum and those who want to watch Channing Tatum get punched in the face repeatedly" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 24, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 62%	Crank High Voltage (2009)	" William Blake may have once stated "The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom" but I'm guessing that if he ever had the opportunity to see the "Crank" films, he might have had second thoughts about that." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 93%	Sugar (2009)	" They have instead chosen a low-key and realistic approach that is so effective that when I saw the film for the first time, I was convinced for the first 10 minutes or so that I was watching an actual documentary." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 16, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	State of Play (2009)	" While "State of Play" doesn't completely work as a whole, there are plenty of individual elements that do come off well enough to warrant at least a mild recommendation." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 16, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 13%	Dragonball: Evolution (2009)	" The fight choreography in "Hannah Montana" is infinitely better." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 10, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 46%	Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)	" This may be the single most convoluted film that Billy Ray Cyrus has ever been featured in and bear in mind, the guy did appear in "Mulholland Drive."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" It is so good and funny that as far as I am concerned, Jody Hill has officially been forgiven for "The Foot Fist Way."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 9, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 28%	Fast & Furious (2009)	" Oh yeah, there are also lots and lots of car crashes--so many, in fact, that it feels at times like a big-screen version of an auto industry bailout plan." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 3, 2009

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