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THOMAS PEYSER
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

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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.
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Total Reviews: 113

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Fresh The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
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Rotten Brideshead Revisited
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Rotten Get Smart
Rotten You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Rotten Open Range
Rotten Sex and the City: The Movie
Rotten Babel
Rotten What Happens in Vegas
Rotten The Passion of the Christ
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

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"I cannot think of another screen adaptation that treats its source with a like indifference, almost contempt."
Posted Jul 23, 2008
 
Brideshead Revisited (2008)67%
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"The fault is not in our steroids, but in ourselves."
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008)96%
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"Little Miss Rain Clouds"
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Juno (2007)93%
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"Another pop-culture icon lazily mined for ready cash. Mission accomplished."
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)53%
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"Sandler's unflappable Jewish gigolo superhero hairdresser act is an overconceptualized drag."
Posted Jun 17, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)34%
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"Something like...It's a Wonderful Life, only rich in slaughter."
Posted Jun 9, 2008
 
Open Range (2003)78%
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"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."
Posted Jun 4, 2008
 
Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)51%
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" Babel...belongs to an unfortunately proliferating genre that might be called the higher kitsch."
Posted Jun 1, 2008
 
Babel (2006)68%
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"It Happened One Drunken Night"
Posted May 21, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)27%
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"The Passion of Truman Capote."
Posted May 17, 2008
 
Capote (2005)91%
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"All [Gibson has] done...is to trade in the Hollywood conventions of yesteryear for the crasser, more bloodthirsty conventions of today."
Posted May 17, 2008
 
The Passion of the Christ (2004)50%
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"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."
Posted May 17, 2008
 
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)83%
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"Transfixed by the taboos of the...British class system, Curtis seems to think that nothing could be more erotic than the subordinate who fetches tea or dusts the crockery."
Posted May 17, 2008
 
Love Actually (2003)64%
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"An astonishing, mesmerizing portrait not only of one man, but also of what commonly used to be called 'the American century'."
Posted May 17, 2008
 
The Fog of War (2003)98%
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"It is marked by a peculiarly English celebration of the Church Militant. That noted, it's also a ripping yarn."
Posted May 17, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)75%
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"She is a human being."
Posted May 12, 2008
 
The Queen (2006)97%
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"With all its unexpected twists and turns, the story still unfolds naturally, like some gaudy Mediterranean flower."
Posted May 12, 2008
 
Volver (2006)91%
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"At times feels as ancient and familiar as any well-worn piece of American legend, even if its content could set John Wayne spinning in his grave."
Posted May 10, 2008
 
Brokeback Mountain (2005)87%
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"For all its avowed interest in life -- as in, you know, the biological imperatives of our existence -- its characters seem acquainted only with television."
Posted May 10, 2008
 
Knocked Up (2007)91%
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"Journey to the Center of the Broth"
Posted May 10, 2008
 
Ratatouille (2007)95%
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"Burton has done that rare thing -- turned a great play into a great film."
Posted May 10, 2008
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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"As a reminder that Iran is a complex society with a long tradition of cosmopolitan interchange with the West, Persepolis could hardly be more welcome. As a narrative, however, the film sometimes loses its way."
Posted May 10, 2008
 
Persepolis (2007)96%
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""Someone in Hollywood must have it in for Thanksgiving. How else to explain the cruelly timed release of August Rush, a wretched confection that only the most determined will be able to count among their blessings?""
Posted May 8, 2008
 
August Rush (2007)38%
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"Earth, as Robert Frost thought, might be the right place for love, but television is certainly the right place for Dr. Seuss."
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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"Lord of the Deathly Thingamabob"
Posted May 7, 2008
 
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)79%
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"The trademark Apatow mix of pasty, media-addled boy-men and the gorgeous, gorgeous women who badger them into an imitation of maturity already feels dated."
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)85%
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"A kitschy, lugubrious and deeply unhistorical exercise in self-congratulation."
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Cold Mountain (2003)72%
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"A competent bit of work from which striking originality and idiosyncrasy have mostly been pruned away."
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)75%
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"An especially impressive achievement."
Posted May 6, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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"The Worst Years of Our Lives"
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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"The only thing that saves Doomsday from complete disgrace is that it knows it's trash."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Doomsday (2008)48%
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"An efficient, simply told story...in spite of the plot's neat contrivances and the movie's determination to pull some edifying nugget from the heartbreak and hopelessness at its core."
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
City of Men (2008)76%
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"Like its protagonist, 27 Dresses undoes itself with niceness."
Posted Feb 4, 2008
 
27 Dresses (2008)40%
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"The latter half suffers from degenerative indie-itis, that epidemic syndrome whose main symptom is unwarranted interest in the ennui afflicting well-read urban misfits."
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
The Savages (2007)91%
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"Although the word 'wench' may go unuttered, most of the time this earthbound adaptation is hardly distinguishable from ye olde kitsch."
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Beowulf (2007)69%
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"Like the movie itself, Carell's performance doesn't really give you a reason to leave home, but if you find yourself watching it, you will be pleasantly surprised. To a degree."
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Dan in Real Life (2007)65%
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"F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked that there are no second acts in American lives. If only the same could be said about Shekhar Kapur's 1998 Elizabeth."
Posted Oct 24, 2007
 
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)34%
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"Leave the gun. Take the blini."
Posted Oct 10, 2007
 
We Own The Night (2007)54%
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"Dirty Jodie"
Posted Sep 26, 2007
 
The Brave One (2007)44%
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"[Is it] good? Heavens, no. But it has its seedy charms."
Posted Sep 12, 2007
 
Balls of Fury (2007)23%
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"Even a high-powered cast proves unequal to the task of breathing life into these bloodless, lazily conceived phantoms."
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
The Nanny Diaries (2007)34%
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"Director Cherie Nowlan is far too intent on serving up searing pathos washed down, inevitably, with a tub of soaring affirmation."
Posted Aug 15, 2007
 
Introducing The Dwights (2007)52%
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"A mostly buoyant, candy-colored diversion, leavened by perky performances and upbeat numbers whose lyrics and melodies you'll be hard-pressed to recall once you've left the theater."
Posted Jul 25, 2007
 
Hairspray (2007)91%
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"The signal achievement of A Mighty Heart, somewhat at odds with its affirmative title, is the sense it creates of universal complicity."
Posted Jun 27, 2007
 
A Mighty Heart (2007)77%
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"[An] unruly, often bracing misfire."
Posted May 23, 2007
 
Georgia Rule (2007)18%
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"As the Goblin and Sandman and whatnot multiply and start whizzing about, the proceedings in this grand hodgepodge are so disordered that it would be no surprise were a Nazgūl to wing into the scene, perhaps ridden by Dr. Zaius."
Posted May 9, 2007
 
Spider-Man 3 (2007)61%
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"Unintentionally makes a case for believing that the young have nothing of interest to say to their seniors, and very little of interest to say to each other."
Posted May 3, 2007
 
In the Land of Women (2007)43%
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"Makes The Omen look like a masterpiece of spiritual probing and cinematic integrity."
Posted Apr 18, 2007
 
The Reaping (2007)8%
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"Reign Over Me surrounds its weighty subject with so much contrived nonsense that after a while the film feels like an affront to real suffering."
Posted Apr 4, 2007
 
Reign Over Me (2007)64%
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"Something of a muddle....The level of social criticism and psychological portraiture shifts from Howard's End to Mary Poppins."
Posted Mar 21, 2007
 
Miss Potter (2006)65%

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