Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Peter T. Chattaway

Peter T. Chattaway's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Peter T. Chattaway has been writing about film for Patheos Entertainment since 2012. As the regular film critic for BC Christian News from 1992 to the paper's closure in 2011, he won multiple awards from the Evangelical Press Association, the Canadian Church Press and the Fellowship of Christian Newspapers. He has also written about film for Christianity Today and Books & Culture since 1998. In addition to his news articles and op-ed pieces for ChristianWeek, Faith Today, The Vancouver Sun and other publications, he has contributed critical essays to the books Re-Viewing The Passion: Mel Gibson's Film and Its Critics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years on (Continuum, 2005). A founding member of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, his favorite films of all time are Lawrence of Arabia, The Purple Rose of Cairo and The Family Way.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
David (2025) 76% EDIT “There’s plenty to enjoy, from the gorgeous visuals to the stirring music and the clearly articulated lessons about faith and courage. David may be a children’s film at heart, but it’s one that raises the bar for faith-based animation as a whole.” – Christianity Today Dec 20, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% EDIT “It wallows in anger and affliction.” – Christianity Today Nov 19, 2025 Full Review The King of Kings (2025) 61% EDIT “Its depiction of the Pharisees as one-dimensional villains plays into old stereotypes, however unintentionally. Overall, though, the film is impressive, and creatively so. ” – Christianity Today Apr 11, 2025 Full Review The Book of Clarence (2023) 65% EDIT “Anyone expecting an updated version of History of the World, Part II will be in for a surprise. Strikingly, there is a genuine quest for spiritual self-improvement at the heart of this film.” – Christianity Today Jan 12, 2024 Full Review Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) 46% EDIT “And with all that swirling around behind the scenes, the movie itself ties up a surprising number of narrative arcs, in such a way that, if the franchise simply stopped here, it wouldnt be the worst thing in the world.” – Patheos Apr 18, 2022 Full Review Tenet (2020) 70% EDIT “It's still rather confusing, and I suspect it would all crumble under closer scrutiny - the same way Memento's plot holes stand out when you rearrange the scenes chronologically - but on a visual and narrative level, it has its pay-offs.” – Patheos Aug 26, 2020 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020) 66% EDIT “Some of the humour is almost profound in a dopey kind of way.” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review Seder-Masochism (2018) EDIT “It's difficult to take the film's anthropology seriously, but Paley treats it all with a glib, Python-esque irreverence that, more often than not, keeps things entertaining even when you disagree with where it's all going. And what a playlist!” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018) 100% EDIT “The resulting multi-layered portrait of the man is both fascinating and complex, and while it certainly celebrates his greatness as an artist, it doesn't shy away from his darker side.” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review What They Had (2018) 87% EDIT “All of the performances are good, but Shannon in particular does great work here.” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review Mug (Twarz) (2018) EDIT “Szumowska keeps things fairly understated, which allows some of the more deadpan moments to sneak up on you. Worth a look, if a bit cynical for my tastes.” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Deep Space Nine (2018) 100% EDIT “It serves as a reminder that the people who made the show were among its biggest fans, too.” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review Young Ahmed (2019) 58% EDIT “The Dardennes seem to be physically incapable of making a bad film, but this, on first viewing at least, is not one of their great ones.” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review The Rabbi Goes West (2019) 100% EDIT “Amy Geller and Gerald Peary's documentary raises a lot of fascinating cultural, political and religious questions, many of which will be very familiar even to non-Jews.” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review In the Name of Ben Hur (2016) EDIT “While it has one or two hints of Judah's Christianity, it basically sets them aside in favour of fight scenes - which is in stark contrast to most of the earlier films, which were all about Judah's movement away from armed resistance to the Roman Empire.” – Patheos Aug 14, 2020 Full Review Green Book (2018) 77% EDIT “What makes the story resonate a little more than the typical odd-couple movie is the way it complicates assumptions about race and class, particularly within a period setting.” – The Anglican Planet Aug 14, 2020 Full Review Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018) 49% EDIT “The film brilliantly uses the persecution in Rome as an occasion to get inside Paul's mind, as he is haunted by memories of the Christians that he himself once persecuted.” – Patheos Mar 22, 2018 Full Review A Wrinkle in Time (2018) 43% EDIT “It's a little strange, then, to actually watch Ava DuVernay's disappointingly clunky movie and to see how it expunges everything from the book that is specifically Christian.” – Patheos Mar 9, 2018 Full Review Black Panther (2018) 96% EDIT “The film's cultural distinctiveness is worth celebrating in and of itself, as is the extremely pronounced role that women play in the Panther's life, from his tech-savvy sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) to the fierce warrior Okoye (Danai Gurira).” – Patheos Feb 16, 2018 Full Review Samson (2018) 27% EDIT “If you can get past the sanitization of the biblical story, the movie has its pleasures.” – Patheos Feb 16, 2018 Full Review Den of Thieves (2018) 42% EDIT “As with many heist films, there is some pleasure to be had in following the various complicated security measures the thieves have to work around, and there are a few ironic twists that I wish had played out just a little more bleakly than they do here.” – Patheos Jan 19, 2018 Full Review Forever My Girl (2018) 25% EDIT “Good films are curious about what makes their characters tick, but this one isn't.” – Patheos Jan 19, 2018 Full Review The Resurrection of Gavin Stone (2017) 54% EDIT “It's mildly amusing at times and its dramatization of the Jesus story includes a few moments that fans of the Jesus-movie genre might want to reference down the road.” – Patheos Jan 20, 2017 Full Review Inferno (2016) 23% EDIT “Shallower, or less resonant, than its predecessors; it has none of those "whoa" moments that draw back the curtain and make you think the world and its institutions might be stranger and more mysterious than you ever imagined.” – Patheos Oct 26, 2016 Full Review The Birth of a Nation (2016) 72% EDIT “If the film had shown the full scale of Turner's violence, it could have painted a more ambiguous, complex portrait of the cycle of violence, and how scripture was used to justify atrocities on both sides.” – Patheos Oct 22, 2016 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More