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Auteurist Class (Substack)

Auteurist Class (Substack) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Peter Sobczynski.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Protector (2025) Peter Sobczynski Even taken simply as a excuse to watch Jovovich kick ass for 90 minutes, it comes up short
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Hoppers (2026) Peter Sobczynski Hoppers is bright, fast-paced, colorful and amusing enough to entertain the little ones without completely putting older viewers off.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Dolly (2025) Peter Sobczynski 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
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Peter Sobczynski it is driven along by its sheer audaciousness and jet-black humor, not to mention the effective performances from Rockwell, Richardson and particularly Temple
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Crime 101 (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
By Design (2025) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Peter Sobczynski "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.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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..
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Atropia (2025) Peter Sobczynski 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
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Peter Sobczynski 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.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Peter Sobczynski I cannot in good conscience recommend Primate but if all you are looking for on a cold January evening is a diseased monkey gorily slaughtering a group of good-looking dopes, this may prove to be satisfactory enough.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Peter Sobczynski It is easily the most focused film that Van Sant has done in quite some time and the performances from Skarsgard and Montgomery are quite strong.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Peter Sobczynski Marty Supreme is little more than bully boy bullshit, a work as annoyingly obnoxious and self-regarding as its central character.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Peter Sobczynski It wants to jerk your tears, pluck your heartstrings and set your feet tapping, often at the same time, and it mostly succeeds.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Peter Sobczynski No Other Choice is still worth watching due to the strength of the performances, some very funny moments here and there and a finale that is perhaps the most chilling thing to hit movie screens this year
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Peter Sobczynski Stick with the original Anaconda—it is easily the better film and the funnier one to boot
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Peter Sobczynski While far from perfect, it nevertheless makes for a fairly entertaining ride, thanks to its no-holds-barred attitude and the ways in which co-stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried throw themselves into their roles with heedless abandon.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Peter Sobczynski Even fans may find themselves getting frustrated by the narrative wheel-spinning on display as well as Cameron’s insistence on focusing on meaningless minutiae regarding the world that he has created over any of the characters populating it.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Peter Sobczynski While undeniably uneven at times, Ella McCay is a real charmer of a film, a delightful, funny and at times moving work buoyed by a smart and insightful screenplay and a breakthrough performance from Emma Mackey in the title role.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine (2025) Peter Sobczynski For fans of Prine, You’ve Got Gold is pretty much essential viewing, of course, but for those who have never experienced his work before, it will serve as a wonderful introduction to his legacy
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Peter Sobczynski Reflection in a Dead Diamond may not be particularly profound and it may not linger long in the mind after it ends but while it is playing, it is pure cinematic bliss
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Peter Sobczynski The combination of Sondheim’s brilliant score and the quality of the performances are enough to make Merrily We Roll Along a reasonably viable screen incarnation of one of the most curious stage musicals of our time—at least until 2040, that is
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Peter Sobczynski It is just good enough to warrant a look, even if it succeeds more as eye candy than as any kind of statement
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Peter Sobczynski A film that is a lot of fun to watch as it unspools before your eyes and even leaves you with something to think about afterwards other than trying to poke holes in the plotting.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Peter Sobczynski The film is almost embarrassingly manipulative at times and not even Fraser, doing his best amidst dire circumstances, can quite sell it.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Peter Sobczynski A film that never quite justifies itself as anything other than a particularly blatant cash grab conclusion to a pair of films that would have been far more effective as one single streamlined unit.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Peter Sobczynski The whole thing begins to feel like a full-length variation of the airless awards tribute that the story is itself building towards,
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Peter Sobczynski The Running Man proves to be a largely hollow experience—the kind that you struggle to remember anything about the morning after watching it.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Peter Sobczynski Train Dreams is a film that is as visually ravishing as it is utterly inert from a dramatic perspective and boy, it is ever visually ravishing.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Peter Sobczynski It proves to be a bit of a misfire that too often drains the inherent drama of its subject in order to make it more multiplex-friendly and winds up doing it a disservice in the process
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Peter Sobczynski Lawrence runs the emotional gamut from tantalizing sexiness to raw anger to ironic humor to confusion/despair as her mental state erodes (sometimes all in the context of the same scene) in a way that never feels like you are watching someone “acting.”
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Peter Sobczynski In every scene, you see Sweeney making an enormous effort to bring it all to life but but all you feel is the effort—there is never a moment when she truly settles into the character in a convincing manner.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Peter Sobczynski In the wake of a film as fascinating and exciting as Prey, I was frankly expecting a equally unique take here, especially coming from the same filmmaker, and I just didn’t get it here
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Peter Sobczynski Berger is clearly trying to present viewers with a depiction of addiction that will put them in the mind of the likes of Leaving Las Vegas but only manages to come up with something closer in tone to the infamous Fever Pitch.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Peter Sobczynski The film delivers every one of its points with such sledgehammer force that it starts to make Fifties-era anti-communist propaganda films like Invasion U.S.A. and Red Nightmare seem subtle by comparison
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Peter Sobczynski With its precise evocation of one of the key moments in the evolution of film history and its delight in the minutiae of the era, Nouvelle Vague is perhaps the biggest bit of catnip for cineastes to come along since Once Upon a Time. . .in Hollywood.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Peter Sobczynski Because the story deals with Springsteen consciously trying to create something deeper, more personal and stripped of any artifice, the film’s deployment of its more cliched elements seems particularly hackneyed and off-key.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Peter Sobczynski The winner of this year’s top prize at Cannes, It Was Just an Accident is an angry, thoughtful and profound work from one of the world’s great filmmakers and is not to be missed.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
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