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Peter Sobczynski

""We're gonna need a bigger boat""

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:: Chicago Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 1109

Location:: Chicago, IL

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1/5	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" Ten minutes into this one and I was all set to hack off my arm "127 Hours"-style in order to escape and I wasn't even pinned underneath anything but a mounting sense of dread." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 27, 2013
1/4	16%	Temptation (2013)	" Tyler Perry's Temptation is an awful, awful film and while it is easy to mock and dismiss, it is also kind of a shame to behold." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 1, 2013
3.5/4	29%	Upside Down (2013)	" Simply put, this is one of the craziest films to come along in a while and I can confidently say that anyone who sees it will either hail it is some kind of crackpot masterpiece or dismiss it as one of the silliest damn things they've ever seen." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Mar 15, 2013
1/5	13%	The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)	" Lacking the cleverness and élan of its title, "The Last Exorcism Part II" is complete crap that somehow manages to give idiotic demonic possession films a bad name. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Mar 1, 2013
0.5/4	35%	Dark Skies (2013)	" Dark Skies is a bore that even the most forgiving genre buffs will find difficult to defend or endure." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Feb 22, 2013
1/5	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" It allows moviegoers the dubious pleasure of experiencing what a film by the late Bob Fosse might have been like if only Fosse had been a moron." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 14, 2013
2/5	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" a.k.a. The Satanic Rites of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. . ." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 13, 2013
1/5	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" It plunges to the depths of "Superman IV," "Death Wish V" and other sorry sequels that now exist today largely as the least-played discs in Blu-Ray box sets." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 13, 2013
5/5	47%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" A hugely entertaining work of pop cinema of the sort that will play equally well with the multiplex crowds and art-house goons alike. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Feb 1, 2013
1/5	4%	Movie 43 (2013)	" A confounding crapfest that squanders a cast of stars that would put most award shows to shame on material that would be rightfully rejected from most third-grade recess periods for lacking the requisite wit and dignity." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 25, 2013
1.5/4	40%	Parker (2013)	" Although working with material that is lackluster even by his standards, Statham manages to demonstrate a commanding screen presence that cannot be dismissed." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 25, 2013
3.5/4	——	Tiger Tail In Blue ()	" Infinitely more interesting and watchable than most of its lo-fi brethren and fully deserving of the praise that it has already received in indie film circles." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jan 24, 2013
2/5	42%	Step Up 4: Miami Heat (2012)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/5	65%	The Campaign (2012)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
4/5	72%	Fracture (2007)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
1/5	30%	Broken City (2013)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
5/5	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/5	65%	2 Days in New York (2012)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/5	37%	Dear Wendy (2005)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/5	51%	Trouble with the Curve (2012)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
1/5	52%	This is 40 (2012)	— eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
1/5	19%	Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)	" In fact, there is an excellent chance that this may be the single stupidest movie ever made to feature the words "Texas," "Chain" and/or "Saw" in its title" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jan 4, 2013
5/5	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Jaw-dropping and eye-popping (literally, at one point), "Django Unchained" is a prime example of the glories that can result from a master filmmaker working at the peak of his powers." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 24, 2012
2/5	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" A major disappointment that is about as difficult to swallow as the Denny's meals that are among the avalanche of commercial tie-ins that have accompanied its release. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2012
2/5	38%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" When it was all over, I would have given Murray a hand but based on the evidence supplied here, it seems as if I would have had to wait in line for a while." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 13, 2012
1/5	4%	Playing for Keeps (2012)	" As boldly original as its title, "Playing For Keeps" is an unconscionable waste of time and talent--the kind of film seemingly designed to appear on a cable channel that you just had deleted from your package." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 6, 2012
1/5	13%	Red Dawn (2012)	" If nothing else, this film makes a persuasive argument for the case that someone needs to get John Milius behind the camera again because someone with his deft cinematic touch is desperately needed more than ever" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 20, 2012
1/5	25%	Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)	" The increasingly convoluted attempts to tie everything together in one grand mythology seems to have been devised by and for the few people who liked all that druid crap in the later "Halloween" films. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 19, 2012
1/5	0%	Last Ounce of Courage (2012)	" America--$%#@ This!!!" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 15, 2012
4/5	30%	Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)	" a work so completely removed from lucidity or linearity that if it bore the signature of Luis Bunuel or Seijun Sezuki instead of that of Paul W.S. "The Other Master" Anderson, it would be celebrated as a masterpiece of experimental cinema." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 14, 2012
5/5	64%	Cosmopolis (2012)	" Cosmopolis is an investment that pays off enormous dividends." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 24, 2012
1/5	4%	The Apparition (2012)	" The good news is that it only clocks in at a mere 74 minutes before the end credits kick in. The bad news is that it makes viewers work for every single one before they can stumble to the lobby to figure out what the hell it was that they just watched. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 23, 2012
2/5	65%	The Expendables 2 (2012)	" An overtly slapdash effort that bears the same basic relationship to a genuinely thrilling action extravaganza that an order from Papa John's has to actual pizza, though it does admittedly have more chunks of meat scattered about." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 17, 2012
5/5	87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" A sprawling and crazily ambitious epic that builds on the achievement of the previous films instead of merely copying them and takes more genuine risks than any major film of the size and scope than Nolan's equally audacious "Inception." " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 18, 2012
2/5	78%	Take This Waltz (2012)	" "Take This Waltz" not only does not work despite all of the aforementioned qualities, it doesn't work in such strange and inexplicable ways that I found myself more baffled than angry with it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 12, 2012
5/5	88%	Neil Young Journeys (2012)	" A portrait of a true musical legend who is equally fascinating both onstage and off." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 12, 2012
5/5	86%	Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)	" This may be Zeitlin's first feature but you wouldn't know that by watching it -- this is the work of a born filmmaker." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 6, 2012
4/5	51%	Savages (2012)	" Freed of working with any historical or socio-political agenda to speak of for the first time since the gloriously grubby "U-Turn," Stone is clearly having a blast making this film and that sense of fun and reckless energy can be felt throughout" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 5, 2012
2/5	77%	Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)	" a piece of product that clearly wants to be the modern-day "Truth or Dare" but which winds up coming across as something closer to "Rattle & Hum" without the quiet humility. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jul 4, 2012
2/5	73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" Not Even Ah-Mah-Zing. . ." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 30, 2012
4/5	43%	To Rome with Love (2012)	" If "Midnight in Paris" was a love letter to the City of Lights, this is more like a postcard with "Wish You Were Here" scribbled on it and there is nothing wrong with that." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 28, 2012
2/5	69%	Ted (2012)	" This reminds me of the time I made a disappointing movie about a talking teddy bear where I recycled all the "Family Guy" jokes I couldn't get past the censors. . ." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 28, 2012
4/5	80%	Magic Mike (2012)	" those weren't magic wands that those guys were holding, though many of the women at the screening I attended seemed inclined to disagree." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 28, 2012
1/5	56%	People Like Us (2012)	" "People Like Us" wants to come across as a touching and powerful drama about people coming to terms with stuff but doesn't even come close to achieving any of those goals" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 28, 2012
4/5	55%	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)	" I can think of only one way in which the last scene of this film could have possibly been better and that is if it had also been the first scene of "Rock of Ages."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 22, 2012
2/5	78%	Brave (2012)	" Yes, little kids, especially the undemanding ones, will probably like it but if they were pressed to choose between the two, my guess is that most of them would voice a preference for "Madagascar 3." Strangely enough, so would I." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 22, 2012
1/5	35%	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)	" "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is essentially the most expensive Troma movie ever made, lacking the quiet dignity, cohesive plotting or the shot of a flipping car" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 22, 2012
1/5	73%	Dark Horse (2012)	" Solondz's once-fascinating brand of genuine misanthropy has curdled into ordinary unpleasantness. " — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 22, 2012
1/5	21%	That's My Boy (2012)	" Even "Prometheus" wasn't as icky and unpleasant as this one. . ." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 15, 2012

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