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PETER BRADSHAW
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• Guardian [UK]
• Observer [UK]

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Total Reviews: 791


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 Sicko
4/5 John Waters: This Filthy World
3/5 The Singer
2/5 Hatchet
1/5 The Kingdom
0/5 The Game Plan
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 Man on Wire
5/5 The General
5/5 Mean Streets
5/5 Gone With the Wind
5/5 No Country for Old Men
5/5 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
5/5 The Sacrifice
5/5 All About Eve
5/5 Sicko
5/5 Dead of Night
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 The Game Plan
0/5 Boat Trip
1/5 The Clone Wars
1/5 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
1/5 Make It Happen
1/5 Elite Squad
1/5 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
1/5 Fool's Gold
1/5 Mister Lonely
1/5 Demonlover
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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2/5
 
"This is a silly, crass comedy about a badass Israeli commando who secretly longs to be a hairdresser specialising in 1980s stylings." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)34%
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2/5
 
"All amiable enough, but still a bit tame compared to, say, Clueless, or Lindsay Lohan's Freaky Friday remake." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Wild Child (2008)20%
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1/5
 
"The sheer, brain-frazzling pointlessness of it all predominates. Why? Why do this again? At 64, Lucas is surely not too old to have a crack at creating a movie that has nothing to do with Star Wars at all." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)18%
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1/5
 
"McDormand is frankly bland and unresponsive in a role she clearly couldn't care less about; Adams's wide-eyed ingenue routine is on autopilot, and the whole thing looks like a sub-prime American TV movie." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)77%
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4/5
 
"Demme's fascinating documentary shows Carter on a US tour to promote the book. Perhaps Carter - and Demme himself - imagined this would be as trouble-free as Al Gore promoting environmentalism." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)78%
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3/5
 
"I can't help feeling that this is a slight misstep from this director, and can't decide whether his film has at its centre a mystery or a muddle." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
The Banishment (2007)56%
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1/5
 
"Its just as cheesy and just as icky, but calamitously fails to offer any high-octane dance to ease the pain." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Make It Happen (2008)17%
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2/5
 
"The twee, simpering voiceover is annoying, and what dialogue there is has been badly dubbed." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
The Fox & the Child (2008)47%
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1/5
 
"Here is the biggest, fattest, dampest squib of the week: perhaps the most disappointing film ever to have won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Elite Squad (2008)58%
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3/5
 
"An intelligent film for grown-ups." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Elegy (2008)71%
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2/5
 
"The movie is over-schematic, slow-moving and over-furnished. It never seems to come alive with any believable interplay of characters; the movie locks itself into a watertight tank of a premise, and the handcuffs won't come off." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Death Defying Acts (2008)46%
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2/5
 
"There are some nice surreal touches, such as getting enormous adults to play two of the eight-year-olds. But I can't forgive Chow for a misjudged and frankly offensive ending, which is culpably evasive about the reality of life and death." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)52%
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3/5
 
"Walker's ending is fudged both in terms of the narrative and the issues, and she seems to come down, a little feebly, on the "heartwarming" side of things. But what an amazing, and bizarre, story." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Blindsight (2008)98%
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1/5
 
"The Mummy franchise now really is dead, dead, dead. It is so dead, it could win gold at the Dead Olympics, establishing a new British and Commonwealth record in the 400m decomposition event." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)11%
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3/5
 
"Bad-taste material, delivered with an insouciance that looks easy until you see lesser comics trying it, is what she does best: killer gags about seven-year-old lesbians and Jews killing Jesus." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)65%
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3/5
 
"A well-acted but lugubrious noir, which is somehow not quite thrilling enough to be a thriller, and not quite profound enough to be a character study." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Married Life (2008)58%
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5/5
 
"What Marsh shows us is Petit's childlike innocence and almost transcendental faith: faith in himself, faith in his leadership abilities, faith that the escapade would be a success, and faith that he would not fall." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Man on Wire (2008)100%
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3/5
 
"Myers' shtick isn't for everyone, but I laughed. Looking around, however, I saw that my fellow critics were enjoying themselves as much as Gordon Brown on the beach at Southwold." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)14%
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4/5
 
"The new length gives a clearer view of the civil war context: a nightmare of panic as the south flees before the Union's advance." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)98%
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2/5
 
"It is a bit better than many recent lipsmacking movies on similar subjects... but there's still the same self-serving, self-sentimentalising macho nonsense." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 1, 2008
 
Cass (2008)50%
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4/5
 
"Ozu's familiar combination of melancholy regret and buoyant comic gaiety is beguilingly in evidence." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 28, 2008
 
Floating Weeds (1959)95%
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2/5
 
"It is very difficult, to say the least, to believe in any of the characters." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Paris (2008)62%
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3/5
 
"Reed's unmistakable lilting groan has real pain in it, hinting at a real but undisclosed personal story behind the music." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Lou Reed's Berlin (2008)76%
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2/5
 
"The film is fervently acted and well shot, and Das provides a powerful, emotional force, but there is something a little clanky about the whole project..." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Before the Rains (2008)46%
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4/5
 
"Watching the first dizzying, vertiginous overhead shot of the glittering skyscrapers and minuscule streets, I literally forgot to breathe for a second or two, and found myself teetering forward on my seat..." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)94%
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3/5
 
"Enjoyable and amiable in its daft way." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)62%
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2/5
 
"Despite the genuine excitement, and one blinding flash of the old genius, this new Indy film looks like it's going through the motions." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted May 18, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)77%
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2/5
 
"This left-field, futuristic film is a tad too indulgent to be a true homage to the silent movie." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted May 16, 2008
 
The Aerial (2007)60%
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2/5
 
"Despite the convulsively jittery address to the role, [Downey] is never in the smallest degree engaging in the way director Jon Favreau appears to think." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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2/5
 
"Intense and very involving drama by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Private Property (2006)69%
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2/5
 
"There's plenty of empty bravura, and Reeves is fundamentally blank and uninteresting." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)36%
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4/5
 
"Farrell has brought his A-game to this cracking little comedy-noir written and directed by Martin McDonagh. He is absolutely superb." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)80%
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1/5
 
"Matthew McConaughey, whose continuing Hollywood career deserves a separate chapter in any future book by Richard Dawkins on the non-existence of God, is reunited for this romcom caper with Kate Hudson, herself uncompromisingly abysmal in everything." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)11%
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4/5
 
"In the factory-farmed blandness of the movies, Happy-Go-Lucky has a strong, real taste." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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5/5
 
"Spectacular chases, fires and explosions are captured with fluid camerawork. There are no stunt doubles for Keaton and of course no digital effects." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
The General (1927)91%
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5/5
 
"The movie's blazing energy is still astounding; the vérité street-scenes are terrific and Scorsese's pioneering use of popular music is genuinely thrilling." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Mean Streets (1973)98%
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4/5
 
"Andersson is radically different from anyone else, with a technical, compositional rigour that puts other movie-makers and visual artists to shame." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
You, The Living (2007)100%
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4/5
 
"With terrific poise and the crispest, cleanest cinematography imaginable, the 27-year-old French director Céline Sciamma has given us a very provocative and stylish drama set in the world of teenage girls' synchronised swimming." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Water Lilies (2007)78%
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3/5
 
"Nice performances from Shearsmith and Serkis, and some outrageous ketchupy grossout, though I have to say The Cottage has nothing like the rigour, originality or power of Williams's debut." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
The Cottage (2008)71%
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1/5
 
"Harmony Korine's new film is a whimsical, lazily conceived tragicomedy about lookalike impersonators, and it is so pointless and irritating that after a while I literally found it difficult to breathe." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)44%
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2/5
 
"Just weeks after U2's 3D concert movie comes another shameless cash-in." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)74%
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2/5
 
"Too contrived and self-reflexive for my tastes." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)79%
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3/5
 
"Legendary screenwriter Joe Eszterhas brings his sledgehammer touch to this heartfelt movie about Hungary, the embattled country of his forebears." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Szabadság, Szerelem (2006)90%
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2/5
 
"Roland Emmerich's great big CGI blockbuster lumbers along like one of the woolly mammoths that roam across the screen." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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0/5
 
"A barf-inducer. A hurl-promoter. A projectile-vomit-stimulator." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
The Game Plan (2007)27%
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2/5
 
"The opening news-report sequence is very strong. But from there on in ... well, what more is there to say about the zombie genre and its metaphors for our undead society?" -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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3/5
 
"It is absurd yet enjoyable, and playing fast and loose with English history is a refreshing alternative to slow and tight solemnity; the effect is genial, even mildly subversive." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)42%
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1/5
 
"Flatulent, conceited and very, very confusing." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Mar 2, 2008
 
Demonlover (2003)48%
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3/5
 
"This new variation on the theme isn't bad, in a gruesome and horrible way, and features a strong performance from Diane Lane as an FBI agent." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Untraceable (2008)15%
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2/5
 
"In some ways, I enjoyed this movie more than any of his features, and yet it's sad that he has drawn in his horns so much." -- Guardian [UK]
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Boss of it All (2007)73%

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