Peter Henne
Tomatometer-approved critic
| Publications: | Film Journal International |
| Critics' Group: | Los Angeles Film Critics Association |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 67% | Beyond the Clouds (1995) |
Antonioni seems to be using his absence from the scene as an opportunity to restate his vision, perhaps having a new generation of filmgoers in mind.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Mar 1, 2007
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| 96% | La Lengua de las Mariposas (Butterfly) (Butterfly Tongues) (2000) |
The real tragedy is the death of a liberal education.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 4, 2007
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| 80% | Butterfly (2000) |
Keeping suspense through a story that we know the ending of is no small feat.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Apr 8, 2003
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| 75% | The New Eve (1998) |
Corsini manages that rare feat in French cinema--a breezy comedy‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Sep 9, 2002
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| 77% | Burnt Money (2001) |
Piñeyro's solution for every predictable plot advancement and character relationship is a lot of frantic arm-waving, as though to insist, 'But these gangsters are gay!'‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Mar 2, 2002
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| 83% | Mulholland Drive (2001) |
[Lynch] is keying into the layers of film reality that make the art so palpable.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Dec 10, 2001
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| 78% | Tape (2001) |
With hardly any artistry in sight, the film's appeal cannot hold up, not even with a solid performance from Uma Thurman and a fine one from Ethan Hawke.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2001
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| 95% | Eternity and a Day (1999) |
For at least half of its length, it is quietly revelatory, luminous and invigorating, and for those reasons it makes essential viewing.‐ Film Journal International
Posted Oct 30, 2001
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| 70% | Liam (2001) |
Maybe Frears' most unflinching drama.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Aug 27, 2001
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| 80% | The Business of Strangers (2001) |
Stettner seems to understand perfectly that all you really need for making a fine movie is a sleek script, alert performers and a damn good eye.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Aug 27, 2001
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| 43% | Lisa Picard Is Famous (2001) |
Proves yet again, to believers in documentrary grit and spontaneity, that nothing improves realism like elegance.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Aug 20, 2001
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| 77% | Our Lady of the Assassins (2001) |
Schroeder assays his subject rather than assails the viewer, delivering the city in creamy, beautifully fading browns.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jul 30, 2001
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| 86% | Adventures in Wild California (2000) |
Wild California seldom flags in energy, and there are moments of visual awe, heart-pounding exhiliration, and joy over the wonder and beauty of nature.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2001
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| 69% | Thomas in Love (Thomas est amoureux) (2000) |
Creates an entire futuristic world without, seemingly, ever changing the camera set-up.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2001
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| 90% | Together (2001) |
Moodysson sensitively focuses on each person's concerns and dilemmas, but also captures plenty of scenes of life together in the crowded, spirited commune.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jun 27, 2001
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| 68% | The Crimson Rivers (2001) |
Hatches plenty of wild turns in its final half-hour without truly tripping up.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2001
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| 63% | Wonderland (2000) |
Arrestingly beautiful; you can practically get drunk on its fusion of movement, color, light and sound.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jun 5, 2001
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| 35% | The Man Who Cried (2000) |
The whole film rings true to artful tones and positions, because Vierny sees the triumph of freedom over oppression as a kind of graceful, superlative production.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jun 1, 2001
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| 80% | Journey Into Amazing Caves (2001) |
Like the huge face of Garbo in her silent work, the gorgeous landscapes of films such as Journey Into Amazing Caves loom over the viewer and hold an irresistible sway.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted May 30, 2001
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| 91% | Our Song (2001) |
One of very few American films to investigate the contemporary scene with the thoughtful, old-fashioned run-on take.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted May 3, 2001
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| 91% | Eureka (2001) |
It demands attention, and indeed strikes a blow for the classical Japanese film.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Apr 30, 2001
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| 14% | South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000) |
The conflicts, vistas, rhythm and mood are of a piece, but not every personality or circumstance is fully thought through.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Apr 10, 2001
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| 71% | Man of the Century (1999) |
Woody Allen-ish metaphysical intrigues are at the center of the clever Man of the Century‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Apr 3, 2001
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| 54% | Enemy at the Gates (2001) |
Probably worth seeing for the sets, battle scenes, and the questions of patriotism and allegiance it raises early on.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Apr 2, 2001
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| 14% | Company Man (2001) |
A smart, neat little movie.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Mar 5, 2001
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| 49% | The Price of Milk (2001) |
Sinclair imposes a sure hand over the look, pacing, and interplay between music and image.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Mar 5, 2001
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| 54% | Malena (2000) |
The plot is thin, but its bustling construction dazzles.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Feb 7, 2001
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| 62% | The Claim (2000) |
A little like enjoying the work of the best student of a great painter. All in all, you would probably like to go back to seeing the previous work.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Feb 7, 2001
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| 52% | Two Girls and a Guy (1998) |
The irrepressible Downey seems almost born to play the role of this slippery eel, and both Graham and Wagner ease comfortably into their roles.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 68% | Love Is the Devil (1998) |
Looking through a color art book on Bacon actually would make an appropriate substitute to watching the film.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 66% | Oscar and Lucinda (1997) |
Prettiness, yoked to stirring melodramatic material, is simply overburdened with more than it can deliver.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 93% | Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) (1999) |
There isn't one conservationist idea in the tamely correct Mononoke that the adult audience didn't know already.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 88% | Sonatine (1993) |
One of the most valuable facets of Kitano's film is its exposure of the gangster ideal as the myth of little boys who forgot to grow up.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 40% | Wide Awake (1998) |
Dramatically unconvincing most of the way through, and even runs into logical inconsistencies where its main character's quest for God is concerned.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 60% | The Gingerbread Man (1997) |
Contains only dabs and traces of the director's vision.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 24% | Wirey Spindell (1999) |
What is appallingly lacking in the film is recognizing the possibility that this person's life might be one big bundle of irresponsibility.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 65% | The Governess (1998) |
Goldbacher, in her first feature, has tied together many ideas about photography, dreams and love, and presented them both fairly and exquisitely.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 37% | Desert Blue (1999) |
Freeman seems to have spent much time lining up the plotlines, but somewhere along the way forgot to impart grit and substance to his characters.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 91% | The Last Days (1999) |
Conscientiously brings to life a grotesque chapter of history that had no aim but slaughter.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 74% | Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
The elegance and spontaneity dazzle and enliven, and the flattening out of space and emotion guarantee the film as a provocation to the Hollywood game and a statement of its maker's independence.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 62% | Chinese Box (1998) |
Wang is moving toward a clearer objectivity.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 25% | Shattered Image (1998) |
A movie a little at odds with itself--finely executed, but too cutely clever for its own tough, gutsy material.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 41% | Agnes Browne (1999) |
Huston's skill at evoking public conduct naturally and easily--she lived part of her childhood in Dublin--makes Agnes Browne succeed.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 75% | La sindrome di Stendhal (The Stendhal Syndrome) (1996) |
Syndrome's bloody, flipped-out rapes may offend the politically correct, but its underlying concept is gripping.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 83% | Waking Ned Devine (1998) |
Jones has told a contemporary folk tale capably and amusingly.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 84% | The War Zone (1999) |
However emotionally appalling and severe, the directorial debut of Tim Roth counters its despair with quiet beauty and takes brave insights into a dysfunctional family.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 86% | Une liaison pornographique (An Affair of Love) (A Pornographic Affair) (1999) |
In a movie that bets the farm on delicate balancing, An Affair of Love comes close but doesn't quite strike the needed equilibriums.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 26% | Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) |
The director must have wanted to impart an unfettered spontaneity to the audience. It doesn't quite happen, because of Korine's constraints as a filmmaker.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 78% | Twin Falls Idaho (1999) |
The Polishes aim to find what a union between two people really means and demands, and their film is surprisingly gentle, heartfelt and sweet.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 52% | The Opportunists (2000) |
The whole film is distributed with bursts of short dialogue that, coupled to the actors' gestures, reveal the people in minimum time.‐ Film Journal International
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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