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Chris Peachment

Chris Peachment's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “I won't spoil the ending for those who wish to sit through the extra 20 minutes of footage that the director has reinstated, enabling him to call this Special Edition rather than the more accurate The Abyss: The Self-Indulgent Version.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review El Norte (1983) 92% EDIT “El Norte gives us a vision of the downside of the American dream. The film's concentration on the plight of its young hopefuls, however, is done with much humour and compassion, so that the tragedy of its message is very bracing.” – Time Out Aug 3, 2021 Full Review The River (1984) 27% EDIT “Vilmos Zsigmond contributes his usual handsome photography, but this is one river that seems unlikely to run.” – Time Out Apr 17, 2020 Full Review Favourites of the Moon (1984) 86% EDIT “What unifies the episodes is a patient moral scourging of our greed and futile desires; but where the British would use satire, this opts for the French form of Tatiesque anarchy and fun. And fun it certainly is.” – Time Out Feb 10, 2020 Full Review Contempt (1963) 92% EDIT “The film is about nothing but cinema itself, which gets a bit wearing, unless you are one of those people who like watching a movie in order to check off the references to other movies. Still, it's a masterwork of some sort.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 29, 2017 Full Review A Time to Kill (1996) 66% EDIT “(Grisham) films are... grossly over-inflated examples of that old genre which hardly ever need change, the courtroom drama. A Time To Kill is no different, except that its verdict would be laughed out of any court anywhere in the civilised world.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 29, 2017 Full Review The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) 81% EDIT “The clunking title of The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love tells you all you need to know about the plot, though there is a genuine sweetness to this perky tale of high school romance.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 28, 2017 Full Review John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. (1996) 56% EDIT “Had this film come out 14 years ago, it would probably still be a late-night video treat, rather than looking a mite tired.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 28, 2017 Full Review The Great White Hype (1996) 42% EDIT “There is some fly dialogue, but it's not a knockout.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 28, 2017 Full Review Antonia's Line (1995) 69% EDIT “It's a broad historical saga of great warmth, but it would have been more convincing if it didn't have "feminist agenda" stamped all over it.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 28, 2017 Full Review Striptease (1996) 11% EDIT “I don't know if the lawyers are currently scanning the contracts for Striptease in order to find out what went wrong in the small print, but someone got badly conned; and that someone is mostly the audience.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 28, 2017 Full Review Guantanamera (1994) 80% EDIT “It's fun, and a mild critique of the island's dire economy, but it won't topple Fidel.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 28, 2017 Full Review Emma (1996) 84% EDIT “A good and creditable final curtain on Jane Austen.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 28, 2017 Full Review Ek Baar Kaho (1980) EDIT “Something like reading 2,000 pages of Mills & Boon romance.” – Time Out Oct 21, 2017 Full Review The Mirror (1975) 100% EDIT “Tarkovsky goes for the great white whale of politicised art -- no less than a history of his country in this century seen in terms of the personal -- and succeeds.” – Time Out Aug 4, 2015 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% EDIT “Aall The Exorcist does is take its audience for a ride, spewing it out the other end, shaken up but none the wiser.” – Time Out Oct 15, 2014 Full Review The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 85% EDIT “This abattoir of a movie boasts sledgehammers, meathooks and chainsaws, and the result, though not especially visceral, is noisy, relentless, and about as subtle as having your leg sawed off without anaesthetic.” – Time Out Oct 14, 2014 Full Review Cop Killers (1984) 83% EDIT “Keitel is his usual ineffable self, his features glassy with repressed anxiety and violence; the only miscalculation is the casting of Lydon.” – Time Out Jan 22, 2013 Full Review American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978) 70% EDIT “It looks suspiciously like another demonstration of his awe of violence that makes some of Taxi Driver look immature.” – Time Out Sep 13, 2007 Full Review Caddyshack (1980) 73% EDIT “If you're still at the age when farting and nose-picking seem funny, then Caddyshack should knock you dead.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Smokey and the Bandit (1977) 72% EDIT “Despite a thin premise for an action-comedy road chase, the film's enthusiasm makes up for its lack of ideas.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review All of Me (1984) 85% EDIT “Martin is his usual combination of flat cynicism and crazed childishness, indulging in some inspired Jerry Lewis-like clowning with his arms and legs hopelessly out of synch.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Holcroft Covenant (1985) 30% EDIT “From the blood soaked ashes of a dog's dinner like this it is yet possible to glean moments of derisive pleasure. And Caine, once again, strides through the rubble with the air of a man who has read the script but is still hoping for a miracle.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Sid & Nancy (1986) 89% EDIT “Why then should anyone of sane disposition wish to see the film? Because it is still a love story, and a very touching one at that.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Swann in Love (1984) 56% EDIT “Schlöndorff shows an uncharacteristic visual organisation; and the clever notion of collapsing the thing into just one day in the life of Swann is vindicated by an elegiac coda which casts a suitable Proustian net over the whole enterprise.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review
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