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The Screen is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Akos Peterbencze.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Jay Kelly (2025) Akos Peterbencze Jay Kelly will give you a tremendous amount of food for thought: a rumination on loneliness, irreversible past mistakes, and a dangerous inspection of rose-tinted memories that are as beautifully precious as they’re agonizingly revealing.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Akos Peterbencze ...as disappointing as my rewatch ended up being two decades later, I’ll always be indebted to Pellington’s vision and Hatem’s script for nourishing my fascination with atmospheric horrors and paranormal phenomena.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Sovereign (2025) Akos Peterbencze Sovereign’s goal is to painstakingly portray the mind-washing and show how it culminates and leads to a sad yet totally preventable tragedy. Of which the endpoint is the complete destruction of common sense, healthy values, and hope...
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Lake George (2024) Akos Peterbencze Lake George never loses sight of how tragic and broken its protagonists are (infused with a painfully relatable loneliness), heading towards a fate that’s virtually predestined.
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Hostel (2005) Akos Peterbencze Inelegant, schlocky, and full-on? Sure. But it’s also a relentless B-movie hitting your nerves with a blood-soaked meat pounder.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Hatching (2022) Akos Peterbencze Instead of merely being a typical creature feature with dazzling practical effects, Bergholm turns her horror into a collection of coming-of-age traumas, piercing metaphors, and psychological ambiguity.
Posted Jan 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Everybody's Fine (2009) Akos Peterbencze Watching a 60-something Robert De Niro travel the country in trains and buses to pay a surprise visit to his four children (who all bail on his invitation to come home) in a small-scale drama has a potent, empathetic simplicity.
Posted Dec 25, 2024  Edit critic review
Vivarium (2020) Akos Peterbencze Starting with its pivotal opening sequence of a cuckoo pushing out hatchlings from their nest to claim it as its own, Lorcan Finnegan’s feature knows exactly what it’s doing and it uses every tool at its disposal to deliver us to a devastating conclusion.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Vacancy (2007) Akos Peterbencze Every unsettling knock, ominous shadow, and piercing flash of light is there to yank us into the panic and dread that rushes through Amy and David’s bloodstream like snake venom.
Posted Nov 26, 2024  Edit critic review
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024) Akos Peterbencze Pat Boonnitipat’s Thai surprise hit, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, not only captures time with beautiful poignancy from two far-removed perspectives but shows us that the extensive generational gap between them is bridgeable.
Posted Nov 09, 2024  Edit critic review
The Descent (2005) Akos Peterbencze In Neil Marshall’s 2005 horror masterpiece, darkness emerges as a living organism. It shifts and lurks and claws its way into our nerves, under our skin, and eventually, inside our heads.
Posted Oct 31, 2024  Edit critic review
The Ring Two (2005) Akos Peterbencze Aidan is one of the weirdest, least likable, and most irritating horror kids that ever graced the silver screen.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Blink Twice (2024) Akos Peterbencze Kravitz opts to go in a more sensational and thrill-oriented direction, following the well-trodden path that films like Promising Young Woman, The Menu, and Triangle of Sadness carved out in recent years. Blink Twice works as efficiently as any of those.
Posted Oct 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Bad Genius (2024) Akos Peterbencze Despite its relatively low stakes, Bad Genius is pretty clever about delivering its thrills.
Posted Oct 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Jeepers Creepers (2001) Akos Peterbencze Jonathan Brack’s Creeper is a morbid and perverted weirdo — every bit as funny as chilling — who totally steals the second half once he’s given more screen time to fool around.
Posted Oct 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Ordinary People (1980) Akos Peterbencze Over four decades in, Ordinary People is still compelling and remarkable because it conveys a delicate emotional intelligence that rings true regardless of race, class, ethnicity, or gender.
Posted Sep 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Mirrors (2008) Akos Peterbencze Aja doesn’t exactly aim for scares but rather utilizes shock value as a provocation of how much gore one can take and endure.
Posted Sep 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Rebel Ridge (2024) Akos Peterbencze Action flicks these days don’t get (or want) to be too smart, let alone uncomfortably realistic, but Saulnier once again goes all out to craft a unique piece of cinema with a message.
Posted Sep 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Longlegs (2024) Akos Peterbencze Perkins’s horror plays like it takes place in a vacuum, devoid of regular emotions and suffused with unnerving darkness, populated by only a handful of characters who will inevitably connect in one way or another.
Posted Sep 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Final Destination (2000) Akos Peterbencze [James] Wong fills the finest moments of his flick with the kind of self-aware suspense that you know is contrived and insincere but can’t wait to see how it builds to a grisly and blood-soaked climax.
Posted Aug 28, 2024  Edit critic review
The Grudge (2004) Akos Peterbencze The absence of a real narrative and legit characters actually allowed Shimizu to focus on his one and only primary goal: inducing and cultivating fear in the viewer.
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Signs (2002) Akos Peterbencze Signs is a quiet contemplation on grief and faith that uses aliens as a means to an end. It’s the horror serving the drama and never the other way around.
Posted Aug 06, 2024  Edit critic review
The Watchers (2024) Akos Peterbencze An unpretentious creature feature that doesn't get bogged down by overemphasizing trauma, pompous symbolizations, or stacking up ambiguous metaphors for attempting to be more high-brow than it actually is.
Posted Jul 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Monkey Man (2024) Akos Peterbencze All the blood, sweat, and physical toll that the shooting has taken on Patel are felt here, both metaphorically and literally. He's in every molecule of Monkey Man.
Posted May 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Snack Shack (2024) Akos Peterbencze Smartly, Snack Shack doesn’t try too hard to lecture or give us hard-earned wisdom and lets their characters screw up as much as it lets them win.
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Akos Peterbencze 10 Things I Hate About You has become a cult classic in the past 25 years because it nailed the universal truth about stereotypes: there’s always more to them than what’s seen on the surface.
Posted Mar 14, 2024  Edit critic review
The Iron Claw (2023) Akos Peterbencze The Iron Claw might not make its way into the pantheon of the greatest sports biopics, but with an ending that's so cathartically heart-breaking yet optimistic, it carves out hope and meaning from a family’s history bludgeoned by tragedy and misfortune.
Posted Feb 21, 2024  Edit critic review
Super (2010) Akos Peterbencze Cinematic weirdos are cool now, and it would be a shame to forget that one of the first of them was The Crimson Bolt the moment he exclaimed, "Shut up, crime!"
Posted Jan 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Leave the World Behind (2023) Akos Peterbencze The most appealing aspect of Leave the World Behind is watching the fear taking hold of these characters while they desperately try to rationalize and explain everything that’s happening around them.
Posted Dec 29, 2023  Edit critic review
The Holdovers (2023) Akos Peterbencze The best way to describe Payne’s ninth feature is to say it’s remarkably ordinary. A quality that applies to most of his films that are warm, quiet, and inherently funny meditations about unexceptional people leading a simple life.
Posted Dec 04, 2023  Edit critic review
Panic Room (2002) Akos Peterbencze Though a bare-bones home invasion movie with a few memorable twists, a decent screenplay, and a solid cast, what still makes it outstanding in the genre is its gripping direction and meticulous focus that grants it another layer beyond the basics.
Posted Dec 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Manodrome (2023) Akos Peterbencze ...there's an alluring quality to Manodrome, even if it’s not explored entirely, that provides enough ammo for a thought-provoking watch. And combined with a solid cast [...], it’s a movie that deserves a lot more recognition than it’s gotten initially.
Posted Nov 27, 2023  Edit critic review
The Eight Mountains (2022) Akos Peterbencze The eventual fate of Bruno and Pietro represents how delicate friendships are, and how time molds them into ancient stalagmites by breaking off pieces of our hearts we never get back.
Posted Nov 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Killer (2023) Akos Peterbencze David Fincher's The Killer is an intriguing character study in and of itself, with no gimmicks, that has enough layers to emerge as one of the best works the iconic filmmaker has delivered in the past ten years.
Posted Nov 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Martyrs (2008) Akos Peterbencze In the dedicated execution of its vision — prepared to go beyond every boundary that there is — Martyrs is an unlikely masterpiece of horror if one that's extremely difficult to praise sincerely.
Posted Sep 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Blade (1998) Akos Peterbencze ...a masterclass of style and swag, dripping with blood and flair, filled with iconic badassery to the brim.
Posted Aug 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Hancock (2008) Akos Peterbencze Even though toned and watered down heavily, Hancock’s first hour (the uncut version) still conveys most of the character’s core, and the struggles he faces as a barely tolerated superhero in the streets of Los Angeles.
Posted Aug 20, 2023  Edit critic review
The Passenger (2023) Akos Peterbencze ...apart from its occasional violence (which is raw and overt but gets milder as the plot progresses), The Passenger is more of a clever character drama determined to offer a profound observation and analysis on trauma, forgiveness, and free will.
Posted Aug 09, 2023  Edit critic review
The Beanie Bubble (2023) Akos Peterbencze The Beanie Bubble is a refreshing, if forgettable, product-themed feature that aims to highlight the real heroes behind a cultural sensation rather than dissect the rise and fall of an egotistical quasi-genius.
Posted Jul 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Saving Private Ryan (1998) Akos Peterbencze Saving Private Ryan’s most impressive and lasting feat remains its ability to remind us about the soldiers we lost — and more importantly, who they were as human beings.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Akos Peterbencze Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is unique because Gunn not only bids farewell to our beloved rejects but helps them find self-acceptance.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
She's Having a Baby (1988) Akos Peterbencze ...the reason the film's intimate and emotional ending works so well (despite a hazy and disorganized plot that didn’t necessarily lay out a plausible road to its climax convincingly) is Hughes’s contentment with his own life.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) Akos Peterbencze Still is inspiring without trying because of Fox’s openness and genuine personality. He’s still the funny, fierce, and easy-going guy he always was. Watching him isn't heartbreaking but rather endearing and uplifting.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Baby Ruby (2022) Akos Peterbencze The purposely ambiguous cinematography, with its abrupt cuts and perplexing visuals, is clearly a manipulative tool that Wohl uses to great effect.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) Akos Peterbencze ...what makes Operation Fortune feel like a less intensive but a lot funnier Mission Impossible-type adventure is Ritchie’s ability to apply his macho humor and the gimmicky visual stylishness that became his trademark over the years.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Unwelcome (2022) Akos Peterbencze The prosthetics combined with low-budget visual effects don't always blend in smoothly with every scene but still offer a B film charm that aptly aligns with the feature’s comical tone.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Sharper (2023) Akos Peterbencze Sharper is a sexy and thrilling rollercoaster ride of intrigue and deceit that gives a chance to actors like Sebastian Stan and Julianne Moore to showcase their impressive range.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Plane (2023) Akos Peterbencze Plane is a straightforward movie with very few twists to offer, but the trick to making it engaging lies in its execution. Richet hasn’t made a ton of features, but he’s been in the game long enough to carry out a firm-handed and well-paced effort.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
When You Finish Saving the World (2022) Akos Peterbencze When You Finish Saving the World isn’t necessarily as inventive, awkwardly funny, and sharp as it aspires to be (especially in the line of similar A24 movies), but it offers a thought-provoking story and a solid debut from Eisenberg as a filmmaker.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Friends: The Reunion (2021) Akos Peterbencze Friends: The Reunion is nostalgia at its most harmless and sincere form, where we don't have to pretend we’re having fun because it happens naturally.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
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