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Thomas Peyser

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Biography:

Thomas Peyser has twice been honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. In 2007 he received an award for best arts criticism in the United States and Canada, and in 2008 he placed third in the same category. His articles and reviews have been featured on Arts & Letters Daily and have appeared in such publications as Reason, Contemporary Literature, and American Literary History. He is the author of two books: W.W. and Utopia and Cosmopolis.

Official Website:

http://www.styleweekly.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Fog of War (2003) 96% EDIT “A great and disturbing film.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jul 7, 2009 Full Review Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) 82% EDIT “Michael Moore's fierce and funny Fahrenheit 9/11 is not so much a documentary as a mythology, reducing geopolitical complexities to a neat, tawdry narrative.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jun 3, 2009 Full Review Juno (2007) 93% EDIT “Little Miss Rain Clouds” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jun 3, 2009 Full Review The Aristocrats (2005) 79% EDIT “A joyful film, full of men and women alight with the pleasure that comes from negating every compliment civilization has ever paid itself.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jun 3, 2009 Full Review Balls of Fury (2007) 22% EDIT “[Is it] good? Heavens, no. But it has its seedy charms.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jun 3, 2009 Full Review Frost/Nixon (2008) 93% EDIT “The director of Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind serves up a merely pleasing, vaguely edifying tale of penitence and redemption, or something like that.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Feb 18, 2009 Full Review Last Chance Harvey (2008) 71% EDIT “These practiced charmers wring every effect they can think of from the corny material thrown their way.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 27, 2009 Full Review Valkyrie (2008) 62% EDIT “Claus's Eleven” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jan 13, 2009 Full Review Seven Pounds (2008) 26% EDIT “Operates on an emotional level so crude that the sacrificial act at its heart appears not only kitschy, but also repellent--not to mention icky.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Dec 28, 2008 Full Review Australia (2008) 53% EDIT “By the end, your wonderment at Luhrmann's inextinguishable enthusiasm for hokum starts to break you down and win you over.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Dec 10, 2008 Full Review Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) 93% EDIT “Cheerleaders for melancholy have often linked it with profundity. But it's Leigh's achievement to show that happiness, too, can have its depths, and even its darkness.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Nov 13, 2008 Full Review Rachel Getting Married (2008) 85% EDIT “Has an improvised, documentary feel that jibes beautifully with the characters' own, often fumbling attempts to find the right form for their affections.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Oct 30, 2008 Full Review Flash of Genius (2008) 62% EDIT “A thoughtful inquiry into the doubtful benefits of pursuing one's ideals 'to the end of the line,' as they say in Double Indemnity.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Oct 17, 2008 Full Review Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) 74% EDIT “MP3some” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Oct 1, 2008 Full Review Bangkok Dangerous (2008) 9% EDIT “A perfectly uninvolving tale of errors acknowledged and manhood proved.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Sep 17, 2008 Full Review Mirrors (2008) 15% EDIT “Sutherland does a passable job of clenching his jaw grimly %u2014 lest it, too, be torn from his skull, perhaps.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Aug 27, 2008 Full Review Brideshead Revisited (2008) 62% EDIT “I cannot think of another screen adaptation that treats its source with similar indifference, almost contempt.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Aug 24, 2008 Full Review Pineapple Express (2008) 68% EDIT “Long on concept and short on most everything else except kinetic energy.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Aug 13, 2008 Full Review The Spanish Apartment (2002) 76% EDIT “A Big Mac with a mineral water chaser.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jul 29, 2008 Full Review Bigger, Stronger, Faster (2008) 96% EDIT “The fault is not in our steroids, but in ourselves.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jul 16, 2008 Full Review Get Smart (2008) 51% EDIT “Another pop-culture icon lazily mined for ready cash. Mission accomplished.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jul 2, 2008 Full Review You Don't Mess With the Zohan (2008) 37% EDIT “Sandler's unflappable Jewish gigolo superhero hairdresser act is an overconceptualized drag.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jun 17, 2008 Full Review Open Range (2003) 79% EDIT “Something like...It's a Wonderful Life, only rich in slaughter.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jun 9, 2008 Full Review Sex and the City (2008) 49% EDIT “As the movie drifts into its third hour, you start to feel that it's not joy that's keeping you in the theater. It's duty.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jun 4, 2008 Full Review Babel (2006) 68% EDIT “Babel...belongs to an unfortunately proliferating genre that might be called the higher kitsch.” – Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Jun 1, 2008 Full Review
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