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Peter Rainer

Peter Rainer

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Christian Science Monitor , Los Angeles Times , New York Magazine
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
1976

Worst Reviewed Films

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F 20% Identity Thief (2013) " Bateman and McCarthy are left stranded onscreen while we are supposed to be chortling at slobber comedy and fat jokes." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 8, 2013
F 43% The Green Hornet (2011) " Here's a 3-D movie that should have been shot in Zero-D." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 14, 2011
F 21% Gulliver's Travels (2010) " A movie of such stupendous uninspiration that, watching it, I didn't know whether to be affronted or hornswoggled. Movies this monumentally dreadful, after all, don't come along every day." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Dec 21, 2010
F 13% The Bounty Hunter (2010) " At points, the film sinks below the level of competent: A stupid plot trick early on is so badly edited that it takes another minute to figure out what's supposed to be going on." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Mar 19, 2010
F 11% Couples Retreat (2009) " This deeply unfunny film is further proof that movie comedy these days -- in its acting, writing, directing -- is far below the average sitcom." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 9, 2009
F 14% I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) " Adam Sandler and Kevin James play courageous Brooklyn firefighters and best friends in this comedy that seems designed to be as bad as it can be." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 19, 2007
F 7% License to Wed (2007) " I have rarely seen a movie with less self-knowledge than License to Wed, an awful comedy made ever so slightly fascinating because of its dual personality." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 5, 2007
F 14% Wild Hogs (2007) " Even Chevy Chase wouldn't be caught dead doing this stuff." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Mar 1, 2007
F 8% The Number 23 (2007) " It makes you want to cover your eyes and clutch your ears." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 22, 2007
F 43% Final Destination 3 (2006) " Not having seen Final Destination (1 or 2), I am perhaps not in the best position to judge Final Destination 3. On the other hand, I know a stinker when I see one." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 9, 2006
D- 64% Harry Brown (2010) " Caine acts dignified throughout, but there's no way to dignify dreck. " — Christian Science Monitor
Posted May 7, 2010
D- 37% The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) " I'll let you in on a little secret that film critics have known for years. A major studio production, released in August with top-list stars, is almost certain to be a gobbler." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Aug 14, 2009
D- 43% The Proposal (2009) " Instead of being about dinosaurs and time warps, it's about gags that were old when dinosaurs ruled the earth." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 19, 2009
D- 89% Moon (2009) " It just may be the most boring movie ever made -- period." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 19, 2009
D 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " Oppenheimer allows murderous thugs free rein to preen their atrocities, and then fobs it all off as some kind of exalted art thing. This is more than an aesthetic crime; it's a moral crime." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 26, 2013
D 17% The Watch (2012) " It's a mash-up of blah buddy comedy and gross-out CGI monster splatter, with nary a laugh to be had." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Aug 3, 2012
D 14% Zookeeper (2011) " I think there should be a subdivision of the ASPCA -- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Audiences." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 8, 2011
D 27% Your Highness (2011) " Sword and sorcery movies often resemble parodies of themselves even when they are intended to be taken seriously. And then there are genre spoofs like Your Highness that are meant to be funny and leave you stone-faced." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 11, 2011
D 67% Date Night (2010) " Fey, in particular, seems uncomfortable with the shenanigans." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 3, 2011
D 6% The Last Airbender (2010) " The Last Airbender is like a Care Bears movie that got waylaid in the fourth dimension. It's insufferably silly." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 1, 2010
D 29% New In Town (2009) " In the current economic climate, this comedy about workers whose livelihood is rescued by a benevolent boss represents the ultimate wish-fulfillment fantasy. Don't spend your hard-earned discretionary cash on it." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 2, 2009
D 58% Taken (2009) " Don't be taken in by Taken." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 2, 2009
D 10% Bride Wars (2009) " Bride Wars makes Sex and the City seem like Jane Austen." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 16, 2009
D 69% Synecdoche, New York (2008) " A great big incomprehensible phantasmagoria. I'm all for 'personal' movies, but this one's private." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 28, 2008
D 43% Blindness (2008) " Set in a nameless English-speaking city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, it's an allegory that never rises to the level of believability." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 6, 2008
D 45% The Strangers (2008) " It's so gruesomely relentless that the effect is like watching a slo-mo snuff film." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted May 30, 2008
D 8% Gray Matters (2007) " [Heather Graham] needs something to counteract her wholesomeness. In Gray Matters -- her name is Gray, get it? -- what you see is what you get. The fact that her character 'discovers' she is gay is as unbelievable as it is contrived." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Mar 1, 2007
D 66% Black Snake Moan (2007) " Maybe Jackson should avoid any more movies with 'snake' in the title." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Mar 1, 2007
D 57% The Astronaut Farmer (2006) " Some movies are so flagrantly awful that they achieve classic status. To this rarefied company we must now add The Astronaut Farmer, a nut brain fable that is all the more perversely enjoyable for being seriously intended." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 22, 2007
D 5% Because I Said So (2007) " Wince-inducing." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 1, 2007
D 29% Tideland (2006) " Despite a few psychologically insightful touches about how children learn to survive misery, Tideland is borderline unwatchable, although, as is true of all Gilliam movies, it certainly is different." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Oct 12, 2006
D 24% Lady in the Water (2006) " I suspect audiences will see Shyamalan's portentous doodle for what it is -- the height of arrogance and a bad night out at the movies." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 20, 2006
D 17% Loverboy (2006) " In this dismal drama directed by Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick plays Emily, a single mother who is fiercely overprotective of her young son." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 15, 2006
D 25% Peaceful Warrior (2006) " This woozily uplifting saga is big on homilies and deficient in just about everything else." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jun 1, 2006
D 41% American Dreamz (2006) " The time is certainly ripe for a scathing black comedy about our current political life -- something on the order of, say, Dr. Strangelove. Alas, American Dreamz is not that film. Not even close." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 20, 2006
D 40% Running Scared (2006) " The hallucinatory crime thriller Running Scared, written and directed by Wayne Kramer, is pretty awful." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Feb 23, 2006
D 32% The Baxter (2005) " Savvy viewers will see through this pastiche of shopworn goods." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Aug 25, 2005
1/5 4% Mobsters (1991) " Mobsters looks like it was made by people who have seen too many gangster films for people who haven't seen any. There isn't a breath of life in the filmmaking." — Los Angeles Times
Posted May 21, 2013
66% Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010) " I guess we're supposed to think these two are made for each other but ultimately Georges and Marguerite are filmic conceits." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jul 2, 2010
91% The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) (2010) " A bit too symbolic for its own good" — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 23, 2010
70% Last Chance Harvey (2009) " All this gloomy masochism is made palatable because of the performers. And yet we must ask: Is this any way to show off two of our finest actors?" — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Jan 26, 2009
68% Revolutionary Road (2008) " What is it about the 1950s that brings out the worst in cultural historians?" — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Dec 30, 2008
68% Pineapple Express (2008) " Gore and yucks are not an easy combination to pull off and Team Apatow simply do not have the skills." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Aug 8, 2008
67% Redbelt (2008) " Mamet toys with this existential dilemma but his heart -- or fist -- isn't in it." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted May 2, 2008
14% Made of Honor (2008) " Patrick Dempsey goes into charm overload in Made of Honor, to no avail." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted May 2, 2008
93% Iron Man (2008) " When Iron Man is zooming above bejewelled southern California, I expected a thundering lyricism but instead settled for some routine CGI stunts. I suppose it's asking too much for a great actor to be matched up with a great director." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted May 2, 2008
63% Baby Mama (2008) " The pregnancy-movie craze shows no signs of abating, but not all bellies are created equal. Baby Mama is a disservice to Tina Fey, who is at her best playing characters who are whip-smart." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 25, 2008
53% Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) " As is so often the case with sequels, this one feels like a retread, albeit on a bigger scale." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 25, 2008
24% The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) " Director Vadim Perelman is big on slo-mo lyrical effects and confusing time shifts, making the movie unnecessarily arty and detracting from what could have been a searing psychological study." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 18, 2008
37% Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) " Morgan Spurlock is a jokester politico in the Michael Moore vein, and his latest documentary is a low concept posing as a high concept." — Christian Science Monitor
Posted Apr 18, 2008
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