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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
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) 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) 76% 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) 95% 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) 73% 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) 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) 91% 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) 19% 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) 93% 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 Dolly (2025) 62% EDIT “Dolly might be a passable view for less-discriminating genre buffs who just want to see some gross stuff but for everyone else, it is little more than a grisly and overly familiar stumble through familiar tropes that adds nothing of interest of its own” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “Like the character that gives it its name, The Bride! that is wildly and messily alive and even if it cannot possibly last, it at least knows how to go out in a memorable blaze of glory.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Ghost Elephants (2025) 100% 4/4 EDIT “It’s a portrait of obsession that, while gentler than some of Herzog’s other works, is mesmerizing from the first moment to the last, yet another title of note in what remains one of the most incredible filmographies of our time.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Midwinter Break (2026) 61% 2/4 EDIT “It proves to be such an overly ponderous exercise that, by the time it finally comes to an end, you may feel so sapped of energy that find yourself struggling to get up out of your seat.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 98% EDIT “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is clearly not for everyone (the audience I saw it with was clearly befuddled, judging by their demeanor once the lights went up afterwards) but to these eyes, it is one of the funnier films to come around in a while.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 82% EDIT “it is driven along by its sheer audaciousness and jet-black humor, not to mention the effective performances from Rockwell, Richardson and particularly Temple” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% EDIT “Crime 101 marks the feature debut of writer-director Bart Layton, whose overwhelming ambition here appears to have been to make a film that would suggest what Michael’s Mann’s Heat might have been like if it had been made by Rob Weiss” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Feb 12, 2026 Full Review By Design (2025) 72% EDIT “Best of all is the performance by Juliette Lewis, who somehow manages to do a lot without actually appearing to do much of anything in a turn that needs to be seen to be believed.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% EDIT “"Wuthering Heights" (note those quote marks), on the other hands, takes a still-transgressive book and, four all the huffing and puffing, reduces it to the weakest tea imaginable.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 53% EDIT “It never quite finds the kind of unique viewpoint that might have made into more than just a standard riff on material that is all too familiar at this point.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 66% EDIT “This is a film that theoretically wants to skewer all aspects of the pop music industry from an insider’s perspective but which ultimately proves to be little more than Spice World with more cocaine and better tunes..” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “Send Help is far from Raimi’s best work but it is the first one in a while to leave fans of his earlier work excited to once again get at least a sense of what made those films so thrilling to watch.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Return to Silent Hill (2026) 18% EDIT “ I suspect that even fans of the game will be less than impressed with the cut-rate look and feel of the proceedings, not to mention the lack of any noticeable tension or genuine scares.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 25% EDIT “Mercy is just another instantly forgettable clunker of the sort that generally turns up in theaters in the chill of January—one that may well have you uttering its title any number of times while watching it” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Atropia (2025) 41% EDIT “Atropia is a great idea for a work of cutting satire but it pulls so many of its punches that it ends up feeling more like an old SNL sketch that has not exactly stood the test of time” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 80% EDIT “The central lure of A Private Life is, of course, the opportunity to see Foster in an increasingly rare lead role and watching her go through her paces here with a combination of intelligence, determination and sly humor is indeed a delight.” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “Although the middle story of planned-in-advance trilogies rarely work out well as individual projects, The Bone Temple bucks the trend by working as its own individual project and coming across as a little better than its not-exactly-shabby predecessor. ” – Auteurist Class (Substack) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review
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