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Peter Debruge

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

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/4 9% Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) " Rob Schneider's shtick still amounts to little more than shameless self-deprecation. It's as though he'll do anything for a laugh -- except elevate the humor itself." — Miami Herald
Posted Aug 12, 2005
0/4 6% Testosterone (Testosteroni) (2004) " 105 grueling minutes of film noir-inflected nonsense." — Miami Herald
Posted Oct 22, 2004
1/5 5% Delta Farce (2007) " As morale boosters go, Larry the Cable Guy is no Bob Hope, and it's hard to reconcile the contradiction of an overtly tasteless movie that doesn't want to offend the troops." — Premiere Magazine
Posted May 15, 2007
4% Twelve (2010) " Twelve can't decide if it's a cautionary tale or a lifestyle catalog." — Variety
Posted Jul 6, 2010
6% The Last Airbender (2010) " This is all enormously disappointing, of course, since the best we could hope for from a live-action Avatar adaptation is the mind-blowing equivalent of our first encounters with wire-fu, rather than this cartoony nonsense." — Variety
Posted Jun 30, 2010
12% Love Ranch (2010) " Hackford gives Mirren the only real character in an ensemble filled with types." — Variety
Posted Jun 28, 2010
9% Grown Ups (2010) " Grown Ups delivers precious few laughs for the sheer volume of comedy talent on offer." — Variety
Posted Jun 25, 2010
—— In Their Sleep (Dans ton sommeil) (2010) " Scathing reviews should relegate this reprehensible exercise to genre fests and extreme horror labels." — Variety
Posted Apr 30, 2010
49% The Losers (2010) " The Losers is the sort of pyro-heavy exercise parodied in Tropic Thunder, and no amount of production polish can hide the hollowness beneath its junk-food high." — Variety
Posted Apr 21, 2010
60% Frozen (2010) " Since the plot literally has nowhere to go, Frozen is basically a waiting game." — Variety
Posted Feb 1, 2010
55% Welcome to the Rileys (2010) " The sluggish pace serves to spotlight poignant scenes, but mostly feels as if the Rileys' family tragedy has left their 30-year marriage in a state of suspended animation." — Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2010
27% Splinterheads (2009) " Attempts to compensate for its too-familiar romantic setup by defining its characters through idiosyncratic hobbies and traits." — Variety
Posted Nov 5, 2009
23% The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) " The film's style mirrors that of the original, which was already late to the Reservoir Dogs ripoff party and feels doubly dated now, with Duffy still relying on his old trick of cranking up the heavy metal and techno music to boost excitement." — Variety
Posted Oct 29, 2009
38% Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) " The Vampire's Assistant is too busy making impossible claims about just how spectacular its sequels will be to serve up a self-contained story with a satisfying finale." — Variety
Posted Sep 28, 2009
19% Gentlemen Broncos (2009) " With no message beyond the superficial absurdity of it all, Hess is in a precarious position to be critiquing the intellect or artistry of anyone else." — Variety
Posted Sep 28, 2009
7% Post Grad (2009) " As fiction characters go, Ryden seems as dull as they come, making it hard to muster much sympathy for her plight." — Variety
Posted Aug 19, 2009
18% Dance Flick (2009) " The clumsy result is what the teen target aud might call a "dance fail."" — Variety
Posted May 21, 2009
24% Little Ashes (2009) " For much of its running time, Little Ashes wavers between the polite, stuffy style of a Masterpiece Theater production and the more pointed agenda of gay indie cinema." — Variety
Posted May 8, 2009
18% Love N' Dancing (2008) " Bland as its title, Love N' Dancing extends the cliches of the dance-and-romance genre -- so overplayed that it's targeted for a Wayans brothers spoof later this month -- to the world of West Coast Swing." — Variety
Posted May 7, 2009
67% Alexander the Last (2009) " At a slight 72 minutes, the DIY director's latest bout of psychosexual titillation (which is being made available on-demand in conjunction with its SXSW fest premiere) feels undercooked." — Variety
Posted Mar 11, 2009
32% Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2009) " If only Stone's elliptical storytelling style were as lucid as his eye for the environment." — Variety
Posted Mar 4, 2009
25% Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009) " At 76 minutes, the film is nearly twice as long as even the band's most dedicated admirers might need, with weariness setting in around the 40-minute mark." — Variety
Posted Feb 25, 2009
11% The Unborn (2009) " Before long, the connective tissue between scares starts to call attention to its own preposterousness." — Variety
Posted Jan 9, 2009
33% Morning Light (2008) " The film feels more like the ultimate scrapbook for the participants than the vicarious thrill the pair no doubt imagined for audiences." — Variety
Posted Oct 14, 2008
13% The Women (2008) " English struggles trying to create the kind of feel-good experience that seems to come so naturally to femme helmers like Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron." — Variety
Posted Sep 9, 2008
0% The House of Adam (2006) " Operating squarely in Afterschool Special territory, the helmer delivers yet another unremarkable addition to the growing list of low-end, gay-targeted pics whose box office depends on what auds will endure just to see a softcore, same-sex love scene." — Variety
Posted Sep 5, 2008
10% Garden Party (2008) " Their lives eventually intersect, but in more or less arbitrary ways." — Variety
Posted Jul 22, 2008
17% Homo Erectus (National Lampoon's The Stoned Age) (2007) " Primitive in all the wrong ways." — Variety
Posted Jun 16, 2008
8% Miss Conception (2008) " Miscast and miscalculated, Miss Conception hopes to collect on Hollywood's recent baby-on-board craze, delivering instead the least credible take on human pregnancy since Arnold Schwarzenegger gave birth in Junior." — Variety
Posted Jun 4, 2008
25% Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008) " Parise no doubt intends the pic's attention to the disease -- plus animal adoption and fair trade coffee -- to be socially enlightening, but it feels suspiciously like sympathy-mongering." — Variety
Posted Apr 24, 2008
43% Pathology (2008) " Like its characters, the pic is too clever for its own good, allowing the meticulously researched scenario to be undone by implausible behavior and gaping plot holes." — Variety
Posted Apr 23, 2008
29% Kiss the Bride (2008) " A breakout movie could be made from Lieberman's premise, but Cox and his TV-caliber cast simply aren't cut out for the challenge." — Variety
Posted Apr 17, 2008
36% Street Kings (2008) " Pic itself is similarly conflicted, glamorizing gunslinging while crying foul over unnecessary force." — Variety
Posted Apr 3, 2008
43% Hats Off (2008) " Despite intimate, prolonged access to her subject, director Jyll Johnstone seems to have missed the most interesting wrinkles of Weddell's story in favor of fuzzy life's-a-stage affirmations." — Variety
Posted Mar 27, 2008
0% Cover (2007) " Director Bill Duke aims for social awareness, but delivers second-rate melodrama instead." — Variety
Posted Feb 26, 2008
28% Adventures of Power (2009) " With its quirky costume and production design choices, self-indulgent pic gives Wes Anderson haters an easy new target." — Variety
Posted Feb 1, 2008
—— The Deal (2008) " Unfortunately, the characters seem to be doing all the laughing, while the general public has nothing to cling to but the horndog flirtation between mismatched leads William H. Macy and Meg Ryan -- hardly ideal ingredients for mainstream success." — Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2008
15% The Brothers Solomon (2007) " Aforced split-the-baby comedy that proves unwise from its very conception." — Variety
Posted Sep 6, 2007
1/4 16% Illegal Tender (2007) " It wants to be Scarface but makes The Pacifier look plausible by comparison. (Do real bodyguards hold their guns sideways?)" — Miami Herald
Posted Aug 24, 2007
66% Shoot 'Em Up (2007) " Good taste is the first fatality in this gonzo thrill-seeker, sure to offend mainstream dispositions, yet too stylistically audacious to dismiss outright." — Variety
Posted Jul 31, 2007
39% Hot Rod (2007) " Those hoping for feature-length doses of Samberg's Lazy Sunday wit will have to settle for just plain lazy, as Hot Rod aims low and still manages to miss its target." — Variety
Posted Jun 30, 2007
21% The Invisible (2007) " Plays like a very special episode of The OC." — Variety
Posted Apr 28, 2007
11% Pathfinder (2007) " This latest bit of historical balder-dash stands in direct defiance of proven action-movie formulas, trusting its brutal concept and striking visuals to overcome a lack of star power." — Variety
Posted Apr 13, 2007
15% What Love Is (2008) " Shot on HD over the course of a week, calling-card pic looks and sounds like an Off Off Broadway play." — Variety
Posted Mar 23, 2007
30% My Brother (2006) " A young man takes an awfully long time to discover what the audience already knows -- that his disabled brother is the most precious thing in his life -- in My Brother." — Variety
Posted Mar 20, 2007
34% TMNT (2007) " Ditching the cheeky, self-aware wink that helped to excuse the concept's inherent corniness, the movie attempts to look polished and 'cool,' but the been-there animation can't compete with the then-cutting-edge puppetry of the 1990 live-action movie." — Variety
Posted Mar 20, 2007
6% Full of It (2007) " At first glance more stylish than its peers, Full of It rapidly slips into the cliches of the genre." — Variety
Posted Mar 5, 2007
11% Blood and Chocolate (2007) " Based on a popular teen novel by Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate revises classic werewolf legend and effectively neuters it in the process." — Variety
Posted Jan 27, 2007
29% Smokin' Aces (2007) " The hyper-stylized violence isn't nearly as senseless as the narrative bits in between. And the 'twist' employs the same sleight-of-hand as The Usual Suspects." — Miami Herald
Posted Jan 26, 2007
19% The Ex (2007) " A half-baked comedy torn between sincere emotion and over-the-top outrageousness." — Variety
Posted Jan 3, 2007
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