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Mark Peranson

Mark Peranson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Notturno (2020) 82% EDIT “Notturno seeks out and finds the humanity in the victims of this war...” – Cinema Scope Sep 15, 2020 Full Review The Whistlers (2019) 83% EDIT “The Whistlers is a fast-paced cinephilic treat, and shows that Porumboiu is capable of working on a grander scale, production-wise...” – Cinema Scope Sep 6, 2019 Full Review What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (2018) 88% EDIT “It's character that matters here, fleeting moments rather than overarching drama. Perhaps this is hybrid filmmaking as termite art-and who cares how long it is, it probably should be longer.” – Cinema Scope Sep 9, 2018 Full Review Walking on Water (2018) 88% EDIT “Rollicking... Christo strikes a fascinating figure, a tireless, uncompromising artist who thinks his work is, on the one hand, totally useless, but shows childlike joy when things finally work out.” – Cinema Scope Sep 6, 2018 Full Review Ray & Liz (2018) 94% EDIT “[Director Richard] Billingham in essence is giving his photographs their backstory, bringing them to life with an oftentimes dark, unsettling, and unblinking humour.” – Cinema Scope Sep 6, 2018 Full Review Crazy Horse (2011) 85% EDIT “Cinema in essence involves the projection of desire, and what Wiseman cleverly does in Crazy Horse is present desire, illustrate its operation and deconstruct it.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 92% EDIT “Inside Llewyn Davis proves the Coens to be the most Kubrickian of contemporary filmmakers-that is, if you consider Kubrick to be funny.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013) 69% EDIT “A brilliant screenwriter, Porumboiu consistently undercuts his surface-level material in ingenious ways.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014) EDIT “Besides what are perfunctory nods to current malaises in Japanese society, there's nothing particularly special about Kabukicho Love Hotel, which feels like it's been done hundreds of times before, and much better.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Phoenix (2014) 98% EDIT “Truly elevating the pulpy source material, Petzold swirls the pot of suspense, revenge and guilt with not only a Hitchcockian but also a Fassbinderian touch. Films don't get more psychologically complex than this.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review The Forbidden Room (2015) 96% EDIT “[Forbidden Room] is an inventive, audacious, and outright hilarious tour de force whatzit.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review I Promise You Anarchy (2015) 79% EDIT “Creating a melancholic portrait of generational confusion, Hernández Cordón gives us doomed love among the present-day los olvidados.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Mountains May Depart (2015) 89% EDIT “Mountains May Depart is a daring attempt from a filmmaker who is fully embracing his position and duty as a national Chinese artist.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review The Ornithologist (2016) 87% EDIT “The Ornithologist meanders in a pleasurable, kind of kooky way, befitting a film whose title evokes an Ornette Coleman album.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review I, Daniel Blake (2016) 92% EDIT “Laverty has crafted an irresistible lead character in Daniel Blake.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Hermia & Helena (2016) 85% EDIT “Always delightful, Hermia & Helena sees Pieiro making an auteur film that fits into his oeuvre while expanding it in exciting directions-and en route, he makes New York his own.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Toni Erdmann (2016) 93% EDIT “Of all the notable omissions in the Cannes awards this year, zilch for Maren's Ade's third feature Toni Erdmann stands out as the most egregious in the 15 years I've been attending the festival.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Blind Sun (2015) EDIT “Ultimately Blind Sun is a watchable and somewhat absorbing (and familiar) stylistic exercise.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Redoubtable (2017) 54% EDIT “Reducing Godard to an advertising colour palette of primary reds and blues, Le Redoubtable is a crude, pointless exercise with no comprehension of Godard's filmmaking, cinema history, or, indeed, life itself.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Cocote (2017) 77% EDIT “[Cocote] aims at a new kind of "mulatto" filmmaking, something highly grounded in the Dominican ethos.” – Cinema Scope Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Tokyo Sonata (2008) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Though far from flawless, it's an adventurous work that is both disturbing and ultimately moving.” – Globe and Mail Sep 14, 2010 Full Review When It Was Blue (2005) 3.5/4 EDIT “” – Globe and Mail Sep 14, 2010 Full Review RR (2007) 4/4 EDIT “” – Globe and Mail Sep 14, 2010 Full Review Tulpan (2008) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “” – Globe and Mail Sep 14, 2010 Full Review Adhen (2008) 3/4 EDIT “” – Globe and Mail Sep 14, 2010 Full Review
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