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Peter Sobczynski

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Writer. Film Buff.

Favorites:

All-Time Faves:
Buckaroo Banzai
It's a Wonderful Lif
eDuck Soup
Dumbo
GoodFellas
Heathers
Jaws
Vivre Sa Vie
The Shining
Rio Bravo
Blow Out

Location:

Chicago, IL

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Deep Water (2026) 73% 1.5/4 EDIT “It prefers to spend two hours rehashing elements that even newbies to shark-based cinema will find devoid of any real inspiration.” – RogerEbert.com May 1, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% EDIT “It is too often content to try to simply repeat what worked for so many the first time around while removing what little edge it contained for something softer and more formless. ” – Auteurist Class (Substack) May 1, 2026 Full Review Agon (2025) 3.5/4 EDIT “Here is a film that eschews all the usual sports-movie clichés in its portrait of three highly trained athletes and the obstacles, both physical and psychological, they must face in the run-up to the games.” – RogerEbert.com Apr 28, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% EDIT “A bland, formless mess that has no real interest in its subject, either as a person or as an artist, and gives a bad name to both blatant hagiographies and hapahazardl jukebox musicals.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Lorne (2026) 70% 2/4 EDIT “I suspect many of them will find themselves wishing that the proceedings could have been … replaced with something a little more challenging and a little less worshipful than this.” – RogerEbert.com Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Erupcja (2025) 85% EDIT “A curiosity that just doesn’t seem to be particularly curious about anything in particular.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 96% EDIT “Based on the evidence of both this film and its immediate predecessor, last year’s superlative Black Bag, Soderbergh appears to be on another hot streak that will hopefully continue on into the future” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 72% EDIT “A film that spends roughly its first half as a brash, musically infused psycho-drama before making a shift in the second to something wild enough to leave some breathlessly excited over the sheer audacity on display and others muttering "WTF"” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Hamlet (2025) 71% EDIT “Although not without its merits, this proves to be a version of Hamlet that has some ambitions, to be sure, but doesn’t quite know how to pull them off successfully enough to warrant a look.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 93% EDIT “Exit 8 is certainly unusual and while I am not sure that "entertaining" is quite the word to describe it, it really is like nothing out there at the moment and those in the proper mood may find it to be a unique and mostly fascinating experience” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% EDIT “Perhaps the ultimate message that the film has to offer is one regarding to its own existence and the ease in which something that was once considered to be transgressive beyond all acceptable boundaries of taste can be commodified for mass consumption” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Apr 7, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% EDIT “The fact that it is willing to push, prod and provoke audiences instead of merely placating them is something worth celebrating.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Apr 1, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 42% EDIT “Just an extended commercial designed to turn the minds of the young ones to mush so efficiently that the crazy mask maker from Halloween III might bow to it out of sheer admiration.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 31, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 65% EDIT “They Will Kill You is little more than the kind of self-satisfied genre exercise that might play well enough for audiences looking for little more than a cinematic slaughterhouse but will strike others as a tedious waste of time, talent and fake blood.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Pretty Lethal (2026) 57% EDIT “Pretty Lethal is a film that might have made for an inspired short but comes across as formless and repetitive at a full feature length.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 76% EDIT “A film that never quite manages to live up to the mad promise of its initial premise” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Marc by Sofia (2025) 74% EDIT “ Watching the film is like observing a couple of old friends looking over old scrapbooks and having a blast sharing memories in a kind of shorthand without ever quite letting the rest of us in on the fun.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) 27% EDIT “it wants to hit the giddy/ghastly heights of the likes of From Dusk til Dawn but instead winds up paling in comparison to the likes of the not-exactly-immortal Bordello of Blood.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 74% EDIT “Iits inability to ever once make the case for its existence suggests that maybe the filmmakers sold their own souls in exchange for the success of Part One and that Satan has come to collect, unfortunately damning everyone in the audience in the process ” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% EDIT “If nothing else, the film is worth watching for Gosling’s turn alone, which is even more impressive when you consider that for long stretches, it is essentially a one-man show” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 74% EDIT “a derivative and increasingly tedious tale that might have worked as a half-hour television episode but which, at three times that length, drags unmercifully before arriving at an abrupt conclusion that will satisfy no one.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 11, 2026 Full Review On a String (2025) 90% EDIT “ A very funny and incisive debut feature from writer-director-star Isabel Hagen (who) demonstrates genuine wit on both sides of the camera.” – RogerEbert.com Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% EDIT “Watching it is akin what I suspect most actual raves are like—it is fascinating for a little but after a while, all that you will want to do is just bail on it and go home.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Protector (2025) 24% EDIT “Even taken simply as a excuse to watch Jovovich kick ass for 90 minutes, it comes up short” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% EDIT “Hoppers is bright, fast-paced, colorful and amusing enough to entertain the little ones without completely putting older viewers off. ” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review
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