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Mark Peikert

Mark Peikert's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Total Trust (2023) 100% B EDIT “The subtext is there for those looking for it, but Total Trust is so passionately intent on highlighting these three women and their struggles that the bigger picture struggles to come into focus. ” – IndieWire Dec 8, 2023 Full Review Barbarians (2021) 53% C EDIT “We’ve reached the depressing stage of our society where taking the tiny step from rage into action no longer seems that big a leap. When it comes to exposing the whited sepulcher of modern life, Barbarians can’t compete with the news.” – IndieWire Apr 1, 2022 Full Review Jane by Charlotte (2021) 62% C EDIT “Clearly, Jane by Charlotte is not intended to be viewed as a traditional documentary, no matter how intimate. Which begs the question of what the film does intend to be. ” – IndieWire Mar 17, 2022 Full Review One Shot (2021) 61% C EDIT “Lacking the polish of other entries such as Birdman and 1917, One Shot feels like a first-person shooter video game with the camera reversed for once.” – IndieWire Nov 5, 2021 Full Review The Family Tree (2010) 10% EDIT “Like the body of a peeping tom high school student that hangs hidden in the Burnett's tree for the duration of the film, the direction of the movie remains dangling over audiences.” – New York Press Aug 26, 2011 Full Review Farmageddon (2011) 57% EDIT “For a film about the benefits of natural food and raw milk, there is ironically nothing organic about Farmageddon.” – New York Press Jul 19, 2011 Full Review Dumbstruck (2010) 71% EDIT “Goffman can't find a way to end the film on a note of triumph. The results are breathtaking, painful and so real it will break your heart.” – New York Press Apr 20, 2011 Full Review Peep World (2010) 24% EDIT “Himmelstein and Blaustein give us just a peep, when what we really want is a nice, long gape.” – New York Press Mar 24, 2011 Full Review All Good Things (2010) 34% EDIT “Bad things happen, Jarecki says with panache, but he doesn't have much to say about why; he's more interested in the how.” – New York Press Dec 2, 2010 Full Review Heartbreaker (2010) 68% EDIT “Louis Garrel had better watch out -- there's a new Gallic heartthrob in town.” – New York Press Sep 8, 2010 Full Review Cairo Time (2009) 80% EDIT “Compared to other platonic film romances, this one comes up lacking, even with the note-perfect performances from Clarkson and Siddig.” – New York Press Aug 4, 2010 Full Review Alamar (2009) 92% EDIT “A weirdly hypnotic hybrid of a Tarzan flick and a documentary, Pedro Gonzlez-rubio's Alamar is a victim of its own ambitions.” – New York Press Jul 14, 2010 Full Review Finding Bliss (2009) 30% EDIT “Writer-director Julie Davis has no idea what she wants to say and spends a ridiculous amount of time not saying it.” – New York Press Jun 4, 2010 Full Review Mercy (2009) 43% EDIT “There's a frayed romanticism to Caan's script that belies his swaggering air of machismo; this is a man who understands the price of love, even if Johnny can't, or more probably, won't.” – New York Press May 5, 2010 Full Review Lbs. (2004) 82% EDIT “When a movie is written and filmed as part of the writer-actor's effort to save his own life and slim down, the movie feels, to a certain extent, critic-proof.” – New York Press Mar 31, 2010 Full Review Stolen (2009) 0% EDIT “Hamm himself is too smart a performer for movies like these, but let's write it off as a canny career move to take a vacation from Don Draper and his glumness.” – New York Press Mar 10, 2010 Full Review Terribly Happy (2008) 87% EDIT “Een the story's sudden swerve into melodrama has the nightmare reality of film noir at its best.” – New York Press Feb 3, 2010 Full Review Mystery Team (2009) 60% EDIT “If this is the future of comedy in Hollywood, then there's little to fear -- as long as everyone remembers that brevity is the soul of wit.” – New York Press Dec 9, 2009 Full Review The Missing Person (2009) 67% EDIT “Why has The Missing Person persisted in staying with me, even though I started craving The Big Sleep halfway through?” – New York Press Nov 24, 2009 Full Review Women in Trouble (2009) 29% EDIT “A lucky alchemy of writer and cast turns what could have been an indie bore into something surprisingly uproarious.” – New York Press Nov 18, 2009 Full Review (Untitled) (2009) 64% EDIT “There's something about Shelton as Madeleine that tilts the movie in her favor. Maybe it's her deadpan delivery, or the series of hilariously noisy outfits she wears, but Madeleine seems like the sanest person in this absurd world.” – New York Press Oct 22, 2009 Full Review Trucker (2008) 58% EDIT “You want to like Trucker. You really do. But writer-director James Mottern makes it awfully hard with his washed-out, predictable aesthetic.” – New York Press Oct 14, 2009 Full Review No Impact Man (2009) 83% EDIT “You won't want to give up two-ply, but you might rethink buying salad in one of those unwieldy plastic boxes during your next trip to the grocery store.” – New York Press Sep 23, 2009 Full Review Art & Copy (2009) 57% EDIT “By narrowing his focus to just the cream of the ad crop, [director] Pray comes across as a Madison Avenue huckster himself, one who's selling the public on the classiness of smart ads.” – New York Press Aug 19, 2009 Full Review The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) 85% EDIT “A throwback to American filmmaking of the '70s, a pulse-pounding political thriller that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the inevitable bloody conclusion; Germany's Bonnie and Clyde, with a political conscience.” – New York Press Aug 19, 2009 Full Review
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