ROTTEN TOMATOES: Peter Sobczynski

PETER SOBCZYNSKI

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography: Writer. Film Buff.

Favorites: All-Time Faves: Buckaroo Banzai It's a Wonderful Life Duck Soup Dumbo GoodFellas Heathers Jaws Vivre Sa Vie The Shining Rio Bravo Blow Out Faves of 2002 Femme Fatale Gangs of New York Spirited Away Adaptation Punch-Drunk Love Far From Heaven Bowling For Columbine The Pianist Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Resident Evil Faves of 90's GoodFellas Pulp Fiction Three Colors Trilogy Bram Stoker's Dracula Rushmore Short Cuts Seven Until the End of the World Lovers on the Bridge Bullet in the Head

Publications: Critic Doctor, eFilmCritic.com, Hollywood Snitch

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society, Chicago Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 788

Location: Chicago, IL

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Fresh 4/5	Fresh 83%	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	" A weird and only occasionally successful pastiche of time-honored themes that has enough interesting aspects to make it worth seeing but not enough the instant classic that it dearly wants to be." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 10, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 77%	Invictus (2009)	" A surprisingly nimble and low-key treatment of a story that could have easily be blown up into a portentous drag" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 10, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 90%	Up in the Air (2009)	" A film that is one of the very best of the year and which officially launches Reitman into the top ranks of major American filmmakers." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 57%	Brothers (2009)	" When you compare its promise and pedigree with the ultimate results, there is no getting around the fact that it is one of the more disappointing films of the season." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 47%	Everybody's Fine (2009)	" It wastes a good cast and a potentially moving premise by hammering the sentimentality home so relentlessly that the Paul McCartney tune that plays over the end credits comes across as tough as nails by comparison." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 3, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 29%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" "New Moon" is a terrible, terrible movie that is essentially "Transformers 2" for the training bra set with pseudo-soulful glances from bare-chested boys substituting for giant robots blowing things up." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 27, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" One of the oddest family-oriented movies in recent memory--perhaps the first one to have its lead character simultaneously emblazoned on Happy Meal boxes and the cover of "Film Comment" and seem perfectly home in both places" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 24, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 47%	Ong Bak 2 (2009)	" Stretched to nearly two full hours and deploying a seemingly endless array of flashbacks sequences, it becomes almost impossible to follow for more than a few minutes at a time and Jaa's utterly charm-free performance doesn't make things any easier." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)	" The only good thing to say about this brutal and brutally boring bit of blarney is that it is so relentlessly unpleasant and unappealing that we may never have to endure the likes of "The Boondock Saints III: Get Boondockier."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 60%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" There is a great movie to be made from this particular subject--something along the lines of such cult favorites as "American Hot Wax" and "24 Hour Party People"--but alas, "Pirate Radio" is not that movie." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 87%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" It may not completely succeed as a horror film, though I would take its deliberately funky and low-key vibe over the hard-sell nonsense of "Paranormal Activity" any day of the week." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 39%	2012 (2009)	" A graceless mess that will insult the intelligence of everyone who encounters it, even those who were actually looking forward to seeing it in the first place." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 13, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 69%	(Untitled) (2009)	" Those who don't know art but who know what they like are likely to come away from "(Untitled)" thinking "Gee, I could have done that."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 76%	Tormented (2009)	" By the end, "Tormented" is such a listless take on a potentially interesting idea that it feels like its own remake." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 21%	Amelia (2009)	" Not so much a film as it is the world's dullest diorama brought to semi-life." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 45%	The Box (2009)	" What seems on the surface to be just another hacky sellout from a once-interesting filmmaker on the commercial skids is actually one of the most genuinely freaky and fascinating films of the year." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 6, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 54%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" And yet, while "The Men Who Stare at Goats" may not completely succeed as a whole, it has so many worthwhile individual elements that it should not be completely written off either." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" If aliens from another world ever do come to Earth and get a look at "The Fourth Kind," they may decide that any species capable of creating anything this dumb is probably too stupid to probe and conquer in the first place." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Fresh 91%	Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)	" So overdone that at a certain point,it begins to resemble one of those demented and depraved melodramatic satires that John Waters used to specialize in back in the days before "Hairspray" made him respectable." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" A leaden and ugly mess that offers all the emotional and dramatic heft of an exceptionally garish Christmas window display." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Nov 5, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 80%	Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)	" As a behind-the-scenes look at how a concert of this size and scope actually comes together, "This Is It" is undeniably intriguing but as a testament to the artistic talents of Michael Jackson, it comes up short in many areas." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 28, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 45%	Saw VI (2009)	" The nicest thing that you can say about it is that it isn't quite as contemptuous of its audience as the incredibly lazy and unnecessary "Saw V" was." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 23, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 11%	The Stepfather (2009)	" Comparing the original to this one is like comparing regular basketball to donkey basketball--a perfectly good thing has been needlessly "improved" by making everything bigger and dumber and by allowing a bunch of jackasses to dump all over it." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 16, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 73%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" It not only manages to bring a beloved classic to the screen in a manner that perfectly captures the spirit of the book but expands and build on its themes and ideas in ways that are both enormously engaging and strikingly powerful." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 15, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 41%	New York, I Love You (2009)	" You know that you are in a really bad omnibus film when it turns out that Brett Ratner's contribution is actually one of the better ones on display." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 15, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 24%	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	" A smug, stupid, ridiculous, ham-fisted and morally and ethically reprehensible example of the crypto-fascist and ridiculously reactionary revenge genre that somehow manages to give such things a bad name." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 15, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 81%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" The late, great William Castle would have loved this thing, provided that he didn't actually have to sit through it, of course." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 65%	Coco Before Chanel (2009)	" As drab, lifeless and stultifying as the fashions that Chanel was trying to liberate women from in the first place." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 12%	Couples Retreat (2009)	" The end result, sad to say, is just about as entertaining as watching someone else's home movies for two solid hours" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 87%	A Serious Man (2009)	" A brilliant and bracingly original work that is funny and thought provoking in equal measure" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 8, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Fresh 75%	Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)	" an utterly frustrating work that contains a few genuinely affecting moments that wind up getting lost amidst too much tired and fairly patronizing junk." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 57%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" A fairly sublime farce that takes a brilliantly simple conceit and spins it out in ways that are original, intelligent and incredibly funny." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 82%	Whip It (2009)	" As for Barrymore, while I hope and pray that she doesn't give up her day job anytime soon, her work on "Whip It" suggests that she could do so and make a go of it behind the cameras if she wanted." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 1, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" It earns itself a place on the same shelf as such classics as "Evil Dead 2" and, yes, "Shaun of the Dead."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Oct 1, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 40%	Surrogates (2009)	" Imagine "Gamer" without the lucid plot and the designer nihilism but with the inscrutable storyline, nonexistent direction and somnambulant performances and you have this film in all its hacky non-glory." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 24, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 28%	Fame (2009)	" "Fame" is content to simply repeat the key moments from the first film without any of the grit or energy that was on display the first time around." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 24, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 77%	The Informant! (2009)	" A captivating work that is as compulsively entertaining as any of his big-ticket efforts and as slyly subversive as his smaller and quirkier efforts. Honest!" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 44%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" A bag of goods that is so shabby that if it had been written by anyone else, it probably would have landed squarely in the direct-to-video trenches and even there, it would have suffered in comparison to its competitors." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 86%	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)	" A film that has nothing more on its mind than making viewers laugh for 90 minutes before sending them back out into the streets sporting goofy grins on their faces" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 17, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 23%	Sorority Row (2009)	" "Sorority Row" is so completely (and thankfully) forgettable that you will be hard-pressed to remember much of it by the time you hit the parking lot" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 11, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 6%	Whiteout (2009)	" .Little more than an extended episode of "C.S.I. Antarctica," "Whiteout" is a film that couldn't be more boring and uninteresting if it tried and if there is one thing that it most certainly doesn't do, it is try." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 10, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 57%	9 (2009)	" Most viewers will find themselves wishing that they had just said nein." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 8, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 29%	Gamer (2009)	" Neveldine & Taylor certainly have no shortage of ideas but their fundamental flaw is that as filmmakers, they have no idea of how to properly execute them." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 4, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 63%	Extract (2009)	" The problem with "Extract" is that while the film is at its best when it sticks to its central workplace setting, the focus begins to drift when it moves off the factory premises." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 3, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 6%	All About Steve (2009)	" This is easily the single worst film that Sandra Bullock has been involved with and bear in mind, I have seen "Speed 2."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Sep 3, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 29%	The Final Destination (2009)	" "The Final Destination" takes a franchise that was never very good to begin with and somehow fails to come within reaching distance of the abysmally lowered artistic bar set by its predecessors." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 28, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 21%	Halloween II (2009)	" A repellent and incompetent monstrosity that should put to rest for good the weirdly persistent rumor that Rob Zombie has even a shred of talent as a filmmaker." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 28, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 49%	Taking Woodstock (2009)	" By the time "Taking Woodstock" comes to an end, you may find yourself asking "Was this long, strange trip really necessary?"" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 27, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 9%	Post Grad (2009)	" As edgy and thought-provoking as a Sarah Palin campaign rally, though with nowhere near the same amount of laughs." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 22, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 45%	Shorts (2009)	" A sloppy and stupid mess whose only virtues are that it isn't in 3-D and that it is slightly better than "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl."" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 21, 2009

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