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Peter Keough

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:: Anchorage Press , Boston Phoenix , Chicago Reader
Critics' Group:: Boston Society of Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics

Total Reviews:: 1003
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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/4	50%	Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013)	" An effusive, sad, visually gorgeous, and illuminating portrait of the artist." — Boston Globe Posted May 2, 2013
2/4	76%	No Place On Earth (2013)	" [A] fascinating but frustrating documentary ..." — Boston Globe Posted May 2, 2013
2/4	24%	Arthur Newman (2013)	" "He was kind of boring," Kevin says to Mina about his dad. "I mean, the lectures." And boring he remains." — Boston Globe Posted Apr 25, 2013
3.5/4	87%	Upstream Color (2013)	" While I feel compelled to see it again, I don't have high hopes that it will make any more sense." — Boston Globe Posted Apr 11, 2013
	100%	Sans Toit ni Loi (Vagabond) (Without Roof or Rule) (1985)	" The road movie takes a somber turn in this austerely beautiful 1985 French drama by Agnes Varda." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 4, 2013
2/4	87%	The Silence (2013)	" "The Silence" is a victim of over-plotting, clunky narrative, gratuitous stylization, and too many points of view." — Boston Globe Posted Mar 21, 2013
2.5/4	93%	Sugar (2008)	" Boden and Fleck are attentive to detail and the nuances of social interaction -- in the cornfields of Middle America as well as in the Dominican Republic. And Sugar is a thorny but endearing hero." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 20, 2013
3/4	79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" Few other films have depicted so acutely the crushing disillusionment and infinite hope of growing up." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 20, 2013
1.5/4	29%	Upside Down (2013)	" Worth a look if only for the Caspar David Friedrich-inspired imagery and shots of Timothy Spall's teeth." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 15, 2013
1.5/4	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" When the subtlest part of your film is Charlie Sheen's performance, you've got a problem." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 13, 2013
1.5/4	39%	The ABCs of Death (2013)	" Judging from their contributions, some of the filmmakers behind this 26-part anthology find death less fearsome than the thought of a cute girl farting." — Boston Phoenix Posted Mar 13, 2013
	60%	Rubberneck (2013)	" A disturbing and deceptively subtle psychological thriller ..." — Boston Phoenix Posted Feb 28, 2013
1.5/4	29%	Let My People Go! (2013)	" Though the film alludes repeatedly to the story of Exodus, it remains bound to hysterical stereotypes and hyperbolic plotting." — Boston Phoenix Posted Feb 28, 2013
3/4	44%	Habibi Rasak Kharban (Habibi) (2012)	" Based on a 9th-century poem about similar lovers at the mercy of historical turmoil, Youssef's debut film captures the ecstasy and desperation of frustrated passion as it presents a desolate portrait of Palestine today." — Boston Phoenix Posted Feb 28, 2013
3/4	67%	Stoker (2013)	" The power of the dream-like imagery lingers, and the horror felt is not visceral, but metaphysical." — Boston Phoenix Posted Feb 28, 2013
3.5/4	100%	Call Me Kuchu (2013)	" [An] eloquent, devastating documentary ..." — Boston Phoenix Posted Feb 21, 2013
2.5/4	89%	White Zombie (1932)	" Occasional Ed Wood-like campiness notwithstanding, it established a genre that would rise from the grave whenever the economic state of the cinema age might summon it." — Boston Phoenix Posted Feb 13, 2013
2/4	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" LaGravanese at times spins striking images - a scene in which Ethan walks into a magical time warp is particularly nightmarish. But he also has a weakness for clichés; I guess he's been taking lessons from the wrong books." — Boston Phoenix Posted Feb 12, 2013
2/4	40%	Parker (2013)	" I fear he might get beaten up at the box office ..." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 30, 2013
3/4	76%	Hors Satan (2013)	" God works in strange ways, especially when Bruno Dumont directs him. Or is that the devil?" — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 30, 2013
2/4	30%	Broken City (2013)	" To paraphrase Roman Polanski's masterful noir, it's not Chinatown." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 23, 2013
2.5/4	59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" That Second Amendment sure kicks ass." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 23, 2013
—	79%	A Late Quartet (2012)	— Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 22, 2013
2.5/4	93%	Amour (2012)	" Two of the world's best actors, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, play Amour's octogenarian couple, so it's surprising that the characters aren't very interesting." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 17, 2013
3/4	——	Indelible Lalita ()	" This gently inspiring documentary suggests that, at least in Lalita's case, identity can transcend all change." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 8, 2013
3/4	82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" McDonagh achieves the tricky feat of balancing cleverness, carnage, and compassion." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 8, 2013
	87%	Frankenweenie (2012)	" Extended to feature length, the premise doesn't thin out but gains substance and momentum. " — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 7, 2013
2/4	85%	Chronicle (2012)	" Such cleverness doesn't save the film from predictability and contrivance; it's a triumph of mindlessness over matter." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 7, 2013
3/4	93%	Looper (2012)	" Is it derivative? Not really; just a reminder that cinema, like history, is on a continuous loop, forever repeating itself." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 4, 2013
3/4	96%	Argo (2012)	" There are many heroes in Ben Affleck's spunky, polished political thriller. But the biggest hero is Hollywood itself." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 4, 2013
3/4	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Russell keeps the outcome interesting; he knows that every silver lining has a cloud. " — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 4, 2013
4/4	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" Densely detailed, superbly shot and acted, illuminating and thrilling, it is the best film of 2012." — Boston Phoenix Posted Jan 1, 2013
1.5/4	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" [A] flaccid thriller adapted by Christopher McQuarrie from Lee Child's series of novels." — Boston Phoenix Posted Dec 27, 2012
2/4	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" Van Sant's direction is as subtle as the fracking process itself." — Boston Phoenix Posted Dec 27, 2012
2.5/4	82%	Rust and Bone (2012)	" Cotillard's performance is a match for the histrionics, but Rust and Bone still could cut a lot of fat." — Boston Phoenix Posted Dec 19, 2012
2.5/4	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" By the third time someone hangs by his fingertips over a gaping void, or Gandalf shouts "Run!" so they can flee the latest CGI monstrosity, the Lonely Mountain seems far away indeed." — Boston Phoenix Posted Dec 13, 2012
2/4	33%	Deadfall (2012)	" Holiday get-togethers traditionally spark family conflict, but this is ridiculous." — Boston Phoenix Posted Dec 6, 2012
2/4	89%	A Royal Affair (2012)	" Chances are a movie about 18th-century Danish history might not be a grabber. But this one could have been ..." — Boston Phoenix Posted Nov 29, 2012
2.5/4	64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" Though it distracts from the realism that makes the novel so immersive, the artificiality does highlight the most genuine aspect of the movie - the performances." — Boston Phoenix Posted Nov 15, 2012
3.5/4	94%	Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012)	" Ben Shapiro shot this documentary over 10 years and not only achieves a portrait of the artist but also captures the artistic process itself, following Crewdson from initial inspiration to finished product." — Boston Phoenix Posted Nov 13, 2012
2.5/4	53%	Simon and the Oaks (2012)	" The German occupation barely makes an impression in Lisa Ohlin's sluggish adaptation of Marianne Fredriksson's novel." — Boston Phoenix Posted Nov 8, 2012
2/4	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" Shot in sepia tints, with detailed period sets and ornate facial hair, the tableaux vivants that constitute Steven Spielberg's wry hagiography resemble Mathew Brady daguerreotypes, and are about as lively." — Boston Phoenix Posted Nov 8, 2012
3/4	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" Skyfall has earned the franchise the right to yet another sequel, if not another 50 years." — Boston Phoenix Posted Nov 8, 2012
4/4	90%	Holy Motors (2012)	" The most brilliant and exhilarating film of the year." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 31, 2012
1.5/4	68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" The most disappointing film of the year." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 26, 2012
3/4	88%	The Big Picture (2012)	" A word of advice to anyone who kills his wife's lover, fakes his own death, assumes the dead guy's name, and flees to a seaside Balkan town: leave the camera at home." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 25, 2012
3/4	100%	High Ground (2012)	" Backed by the astounding beauty of the Himalayas, their struggle to reach the peak is healing for them and illuminating for the rest of us." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 25, 2012
3/4	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" A powerful expression of our common needs, fears, and consolations." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 25, 2012
2.5/4	95%	Sister (2012)	" Despite the twist at the end, this seems as rote as the circling ski lifts that are Meier's recurring metaphor." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 18, 2012

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