Chris Peachment
Chris Peachment's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Time Out
Movies reviews only
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El Norte (1983) |
El Norte gives us a vision of the downside of the American dream. The film's concentration on the plight of its young hopefuls, however, is done with much humour and compassion, so that the tragedy of its message is very bracing. - Time Out
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| Posted Aug 03, 2021
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The River (1984) |
Vilmos Zsigmond contributes his usual handsome photography, but this is one river that seems unlikely to run. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 17, 2020
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Favourites of the Moon (1984) |
What unifies the episodes is a patient moral scourging of our greed and futile desires; but where the British would use satire, this opts for the French form of Tatiesque anarchy and fun. And fun it certainly is. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 10, 2020
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Contempt (1963) |
The film is about nothing but cinema itself, which gets a bit wearing, unless you are one of those people who like watching a movie in order to check off the references to other movies. Still, it's a masterwork of some sort. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2017
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A Time to Kill (1996) |
(Grisham) films are... grossly over-inflated examples of that old genre which hardly ever need change, the courtroom drama. A Time To Kill is no different, except that its verdict would be laughed out of any court anywhere in the civilised world. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 29, 2017
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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) |
The clunking title of The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love tells you all you need to know about the plot, though there is a genuine sweetness to this perky tale of high school romance. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2017
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John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. (1996) |
Had this film come out 14 years ago, it would probably still be a late-night video treat, rather than looking a mite tired. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2017
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The Great White Hype (1996) |
There is some fly dialogue, but it's not a knockout. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2017
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Antonia's Line (1995) |
It's a broad historical saga of great warmth, but it would have been more convincing if it didn't have "feminist agenda" stamped all over it. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2017
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Striptease (1996) |
I don't know if the lawyers are currently scanning the contracts for Striptease in order to find out what went wrong in the small print, but someone got badly conned; and that someone is mostly the audience. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2017
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Guantanamera (1994) |
It's fun, and a mild critique of the island's dire economy, but it won't topple Fidel. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2017
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Emma (1996) |
A good and creditable final curtain on Jane Austen. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
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| Posted Nov 28, 2017
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Ek Baar Kaho (1980) |
Something like reading 2,000 pages of Mills & Boon romance. - Time Out
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| Posted Oct 21, 2017
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The Mirror (1975) |
Tarkovsky goes for the great white whale of politicised art -- no less than a history of his country in this century seen in terms of the personal -- and succeeds. - Time Out
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| Posted Aug 04, 2015
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The Exorcist (1973) |
Aall The Exorcist does is take its audience for a ride, spewing it out the other end, shaken up but none the wiser. - Time Out
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| Posted Oct 15, 2014
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) |
This abattoir of a movie boasts sledgehammers, meathooks and chainsaws, and the result, though not especially visceral, is noisy, relentless, and about as subtle as having your leg sawed off without anaesthetic. - Time Out
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| Posted Oct 14, 2014
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Cop Killers (1984) |
Keitel is his usual ineffable self, his features glassy with repressed anxiety and violence; the only miscalculation is the casting of Lydon. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 22, 2013
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American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978) |
It looks suspiciously like another demonstration of his awe of violence that makes some of Taxi Driver look immature. - Time Out
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| Posted Sep 13, 2007
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Caddyshack (1980) |
If you're still at the age when farting and nose-picking seem funny, then Caddyshack should knock you dead. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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All of Me (1984) |
Martin is his usual combination of flat cynicism and crazed childishness, indulging in some inspired Jerry Lewis-like clowning with his arms and legs hopelessly out of synch. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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The Holcroft Covenant (1985) |
From the blood soaked ashes of a dog's dinner like this it is yet possible to glean moments of derisive pleasure. And Caine, once again, strides through the rubble with the air of a man who has read the script but is still hoping for a miracle. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Sid & Nancy (1986) |
Why then should anyone of sane disposition wish to see the film? Because it is still a love story, and a very touching one at that. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Link (1986) |
Too much monkey business. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Places in the Heart (1984) |
Much is unemphatic, but all of it carries the moving weight of conviction. And it ends on a healing grace-note which passeth all understanding. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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A Love in Germany (1983) |
Alongside Schygulla's aching gravity, Mueller-Stahl weighs in a tremendous performance as the perplexed and irritable Gestapo chief. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Crackers (1984) |
Cardiac arrest finally seizes the film, after a long case of terminal whimsy. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Heartbreak Ridge (1986) |
The film belongs to Eastwood. Now looking increasingly like an Easter Island statue, he has a voice pickled in bourbon, a tongue like razor wire, and a body so full of shrapnel that he can't walk through airport metal detectors. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Rocky IV (1985) |
Film reduced to the barest of three acts. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) |
A sad re-run of the Mean Streets idea... - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Ruthless People (1986) |
A pity that the directors prove less ruthless than their own creations, but there is more than enough here for people who enjoy murder attempts on cute pet poodles. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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The Hot Rock (1972) |
It's a lightweight film, but enjoyable nonetheless. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Trading Places (1983) |
As a satire on the internecine savagery of fiscal doings under late Reaganite capitalism, the movie is not as biting as it thinks it is; but it's still the best hoot since Arthur. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Splash (1984) |
Howard demonstrates exactly the correct soft touch, skirting the myriad problems of taste. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 09, 2006
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986) |
Carpenter has always been a skilful genre mechanic, breathing life into old forms; if he stubs his toes up against the bamboo curtain this time, there is still more enjoyable sly humour than in most slug-fests. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 09, 2006
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Rear Window (1954) |
Of all Hitchcock's films, this is the one which most reveals the man. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 09, 2006
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A Star Is Born (1954) |
Of all Hollywood's heartbreakers, this must be one of the saddest. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 09, 2006
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Risky Business (1983) |
What distinguishes it, however, is that it's hovering permanently on the brink of stark, staring disaster in a way that strangely recalls The Graduate. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 09, 2006
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Plenty (1985) |
Whether or not you buy the message, it's a work that qualifies as epic, and reveals Hare as a great Romantic. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 09, 2006
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Vampyr (1932) |
With the help of Rudolph Mat's luminous photography, Dreyer creates a film of great beauty. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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Never Say Never Again (1983) |
The action's good, the photography excellent, the sets decent; but the real clincher is the fact that Bond is once more played by a man with the right stuff. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) |
Hutton succumbs firstly to a thin role, and secondly to the film's lack of any strong viewpoint about its leading men. As usual Schlesinger is more than half in love with what he might be satirising. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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Out of Africa (1985) |
For all that it may come out of Africa, the film's final destination is not many miles from Disneyland. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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A View to a Kill (1985) |
Once 007 was licensed to kill; now he not only eats quiche, he cooks it himself. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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Videodrome (1983) |
There are distinct signs of strain in the plot convolutions, not least in the spectator's loss of faith over indiscriminate and cheating use of hallucination; what certainly survives is Cronenberg's wholesale disgust with the world in general. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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Back to the Future (1985) |
The movie has all the benign good nature of a Frank Capra. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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