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PETER BRUNETTE Movie Reviews

39 reviews, averaging 62.1% positive
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1. 10/15/10 Good "...delightful, sexy, and often audacious... so French, that most international audiences will be completely baffled by its very specific topical references."
2. 10/15/10 Good "...heartfelt yet very modest... Haroun is uninterested in big war scenes and is best at evoking the little details of life... his camera techniques aren't flashy, but rather quietly powerful..."
3.

Red Hill

Hollywood Reporter
10/15/10 Weak "...despite some semi-surprising twists near the end, it is weighed down and finally destroyed by too many cliches and a lack of clarity about what's being attempted."
4.

Aurora (2011)

Hollywood Reporter
10/15/10 Moderate "Romanian directors seem to be indulging in a frenzied round of macho competition: How long can we baffle and bore the audience before we deliver the goods?"
5.

Film Socialisme

Hollywood Reporter
10/15/10 Fair "...all over the place and (purposely) impossible to follow... Godard films are much less fun to actually watch than they are to argue about afterward."
6. 10/14/10 Good "...surprisingly dramatic.... [but] Andrei Ucija offers not a single word of explanatory voiceover over its three-hour running time, an unfortunate aesthetic decision..."
7.

The Hunter (Shekarchi)

Hollywood Reporter
10/14/10 Good "It's gorgeously shot, and the weight of the Iranian present can be palpably felt, but for most viewers this will not be enough.... it's impeccable on a purely formal level."
8.

Sound of Noise

Hollywood Reporter
10/14/10 Excellent "It's all based on music -- raw, elemental and percussive -- out of which genuine laughs are wrung... may be small in scope, but, in terms of imagination, it's huge."
9.

The Robber (Der Räuber)

Hollywood Reporter
10/14/10 Very Good "The film's very brilliance is what proves so disappointing, because it promises so much more than it ever delivers.... a psychological study with no psyche to study."
10. 05/17/10 Good (Not Great) "...militantly superficial and revels overmuch in its campy gay sensibility, but it is sporadically fun if not taken too seriously."
11. 05/13/10 Moderate "...vintage De Oliveira... but it's a vintage that may have passed its prime.... The only thing that's missing in this ultra-formalist exercise is any sense of real, breathing life."
12.

Putty Hill

Hollywood Reporter
02/16/10 Poor "...virtually every aspect of this misbegotten film misfires.... people talk, or are artificially interrogated by the unseen interviewer, and all that results is banality."
13.

Mao's Last Dancer

Hollywood Reporter
09/24/09 Good "...emotional manipulation of the audience is constant and obvious.... [but] director Bruce Beresford knows exactly what he is doing at every moment..."
14.

Trash Humpers

Hollywood Reporter
09/23/09 Good (Not Great) "...crazy people sing crazily, destroy furniture, smash dolls' heads with hammers, tap dance, power wash wheel chairs, eat pancakes with dishwashing liquid on them..."
15.

Valhalla Rising

Hollywood Reporter
09/18/09 Good "A visually and aurally gorgeous film that will be too violent for some and too slow for others."
16.

Whip It

Hollywood Reporter
09/16/09 Outstanding "With her remarkable debut as a director, Drew Barrymore proves that she is just as perky, quirky and talented behind the camera as in front of it."
17. 09/16/09 Good "What 'Manus' has going for it is two things: the almost Hollywood-level slickness of its high production values and the profound depth of Max's despondency at the end..."
18.

Solomon Kane

Hollywood Reporter
09/14/09 Very Good "Though its grasp of English history may be a bit fanciful, 'Solomon Kane' is a powerful, high-spirited romp.... a solid entertainment that will enthrall young and old alike."
19.

A Town Called Panic

Hollywood Reporter
05/22/09 Outstanding "There's really very little to say about this film beyond that it's absolutely brilliant."
20.

Enter the Void

Hollywood Reporter
05/22/09 Poor "...its obsessive emphasis on sex and drugs -- to the point that most viewers are going to feel utterly bludgeoned by both -- makes it virtually unwatchable..."

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