Peter Henne

Peter Henne
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications: Film Journal International
Critics' Group: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter Title | Year
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 1, 2007
96% La Lengua de las Mariposas (Butterfly) (Butterfly Tongues) (2000) The real tragedy is the death of a liberal education. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 4, 2007
80% Butterfly (2000) Keeping suspense through a story that we know the ending of is no small feat. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 8, 2003
75% The New Eve (1998) Corsini manages that rare feat in French cinema--a breezy comedy - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Sep 9, 2002
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 2, 2002
83% Mulholland Drive (2001) [Lynch] is keying into the layers of film reality that make the art so palpable. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 10, 2001
77% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 30, 2001
70% Liam (2001) Maybe Frears' most unflinching drama. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 27, 2001
81% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 27, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 20, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 30, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2001
69% Thomas in Love (Thomas est amoureux) (2000) Creates an entire futuristic world without, seemingly, ever changing the camera set-up. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 27, 2001
68% The Crimson Rivers (2001) Hatches plenty of wild turns in its final half-hour without truly tripping up. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2001
63% Wonderland (2000) Arrestingly beautiful; you can practically get drunk on its fusion of movement, color, light and sound. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 5, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 1, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted May 30, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted May 3, 2001
91% Eureka (2001) It demands attention, and indeed strikes a blow for the classical Japanese film. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 30, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 10, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 3, 2001
53% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 2, 2001
14% Company Man (2001) A smart, neat little movie. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 5, 2001
49% The Price of Milk (2001) Sinclair imposes a sure hand over the look, pacing, and interplay between music and image. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 5, 2001
54% Malena (2000) The plot is thin, but its bustling construction dazzles. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 7, 2001
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 7, 2001
51% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
66% Oscar and Lucinda (1997) Prettiness, yoked to stirring melodramatic material, is simply overburdened with more than it can deliver. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
45% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
59% The Gingerbread Man (1997) Contains only dabs and traces of the director's vision. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
91% The Last Days (1999) Conscientiously brings to life a grotesque chapter of history that had no aim but slaughter. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
75% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
64% Chinese Box (1998) Wang is moving toward a clearer objectivity. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
77% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
84% Waking Ned Devine (1998) Jones has told a contemporary folk tale capably and amusingly. - Film Journal International EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
30% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
54% 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 EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000