Peter Canavese

Peter Canavese

""I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it." —Groucho Marx in Duck Soup "

Agrees with the Tomatometer 82% of the time.

Biography:
Since 1987, Peter "Groucho" Canavese has been writing film reviews and articles in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is a member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. Peter authors and maintains an exhaustive website called GrouchoReviews and is the chief film critic for monthly ON Magazine (since 1995), and Celluloid Dreams, a weekly radio show devoted to film (Celluloid Dreams runs on KSJS—90.5 FM—every Monday at 5pm). Since 2009, he has regularly contributed film reviews to Palo Alto Weekly. His reviews have also appeared in the San Jose Mercury News (1991-1994), in Bay Area weekly Alternate101 (2007-2008), and on Portland's 1190 KEX drive-time show Mark & Dave (2008).
Favorites:
Citizen Kane, Brazil, Duck Soup, Ikiru, North by Northwest, 8 1/2
Publications:
Groucho Reviews , ON Magazine , Palo Alto Weekly
Total Reviews:
1801
Total QuickRatings:
3
Location:
San Jose, CA

Quick Ratings

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4/4 95% Bringing Up Baby (1938) " A textbook screwball comedy with lovably frantic chemistry between its Golden Age stars." — Groucho Reviews
Posted Sep 16, 2004
5/5 100% Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Groucho Reviews
Posted Aug 19, 2004
5/5 95% Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Groucho Reviews
Posted Aug 19, 2004
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