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Auteurist Class (Substack)

Auteurist Class (Substack) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Peter Sobczynski.

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Return to Silent Hill (2026) Peter Sobczynski I suspect that even fans of the game will be less than impressed with the cut-rate look and feel of the proceedings, not to mention the lack of any noticeable tension or genuine scares.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Peter Sobczynski Mercy is just another instantly forgettable clunker of the sort that generally turns up in theaters in the chill of January—one that may well have you uttering its title any number of times while watching it
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Atropia (2025) Peter Sobczynski Atropia is a great idea for a work of cutting satire but it pulls so many of its punches that it ends up feeling more like an old SNL sketch that has not exactly stood the test of time
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Peter Sobczynski The central lure of A Private Life is, of course, the opportunity to see Foster in an increasingly rare lead role and watching her go through her paces here with a combination of intelligence, determination and sly humor is indeed a delight.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Peter Sobczynski Although the middle story of planned-in-advance trilogies rarely work out well as individual projects, The Bone Temple bucks the trend by working as its own individual project and coming across as a little better than its not-exactly-shabby predecessor.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Peter Sobczynski I cannot in good conscience recommend Primate but if all you are looking for on a cold January evening is a diseased monkey gorily slaughtering a group of good-looking dopes, this may prove to be satisfactory enough.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Peter Sobczynski It is easily the most focused film that Van Sant has done in quite some time and the performances from Skarsgard and Montgomery are quite strong.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Peter Sobczynski Marty Supreme is little more than bully boy bullshit, a work as annoyingly obnoxious and self-regarding as its central character.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Peter Sobczynski It wants to jerk your tears, pluck your heartstrings and set your feet tapping, often at the same time, and it mostly succeeds.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Peter Sobczynski No Other Choice is still worth watching due to the strength of the performances, some very funny moments here and there and a finale that is perhaps the most chilling thing to hit movie screens this year
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Peter Sobczynski Stick with the original Anaconda—it is easily the better film and the funnier one to boot
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Peter Sobczynski While far from perfect, it nevertheless makes for a fairly entertaining ride, thanks to its no-holds-barred attitude and the ways in which co-stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried throw themselves into their roles with heedless abandon.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Peter Sobczynski Even fans may find themselves getting frustrated by the narrative wheel-spinning on display as well as Cameron’s insistence on focusing on meaningless minutiae regarding the world that he has created over any of the characters populating it.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Peter Sobczynski While undeniably uneven at times, Ella McCay is a real charmer of a film, a delightful, funny and at times moving work buoyed by a smart and insightful screenplay and a breakthrough performance from Emma Mackey in the title role.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine (2025) Peter Sobczynski For fans of Prine, You’ve Got Gold is pretty much essential viewing, of course, but for those who have never experienced his work before, it will serve as a wonderful introduction to his legacy
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Peter Sobczynski Reflection in a Dead Diamond may not be particularly profound and it may not linger long in the mind after it ends but while it is playing, it is pure cinematic bliss
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Peter Sobczynski The combination of Sondheim’s brilliant score and the quality of the performances are enough to make Merrily We Roll Along a reasonably viable screen incarnation of one of the most curious stage musicals of our time—at least until 2040, that is
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Peter Sobczynski It is just good enough to warrant a look, even if it succeeds more as eye candy than as any kind of statement
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Peter Sobczynski A film that is a lot of fun to watch as it unspools before your eyes and even leaves you with something to think about afterwards other than trying to poke holes in the plotting.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Peter Sobczynski The film is almost embarrassingly manipulative at times and not even Fraser, doing his best amidst dire circumstances, can quite sell it.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Peter Sobczynski A film that never quite justifies itself as anything other than a particularly blatant cash grab conclusion to a pair of films that would have been far more effective as one single streamlined unit.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Peter Sobczynski The whole thing begins to feel like a full-length variation of the airless awards tribute that the story is itself building towards,
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Peter Sobczynski The Running Man proves to be a largely hollow experience—the kind that you struggle to remember anything about the morning after watching it.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Peter Sobczynski Train Dreams is a film that is as visually ravishing as it is utterly inert from a dramatic perspective and boy, it is ever visually ravishing.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Peter Sobczynski It proves to be a bit of a misfire that too often drains the inherent drama of its subject in order to make it more multiplex-friendly and winds up doing it a disservice in the process
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Peter Sobczynski Lawrence runs the emotional gamut from tantalizing sexiness to raw anger to ironic humor to confusion/despair as her mental state erodes (sometimes all in the context of the same scene) in a way that never feels like you are watching someone “acting.”
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Peter Sobczynski In every scene, you see Sweeney making an enormous effort to bring it all to life but but all you feel is the effort—there is never a moment when she truly settles into the character in a convincing manner.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Peter Sobczynski In the wake of a film as fascinating and exciting as Prey, I was frankly expecting a equally unique take here, especially coming from the same filmmaker, and I just didn’t get it here
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Peter Sobczynski Berger is clearly trying to present viewers with a depiction of addiction that will put them in the mind of the likes of Leaving Las Vegas but only manages to come up with something closer in tone to the infamous Fever Pitch.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Peter Sobczynski The film delivers every one of its points with such sledgehammer force that it starts to make Fifties-era anti-communist propaganda films like Invasion U.S.A. and Red Nightmare seem subtle by comparison
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Peter Sobczynski With its precise evocation of one of the key moments in the evolution of film history and its delight in the minutiae of the era, Nouvelle Vague is perhaps the biggest bit of catnip for cineastes to come along since Once Upon a Time. . .in Hollywood.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Peter Sobczynski Because the story deals with Springsteen consciously trying to create something deeper, more personal and stripped of any artifice, the film’s deployment of its more cliched elements seems particularly hackneyed and off-key.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Peter Sobczynski The winner of this year’s top prize at Cannes, It Was Just an Accident is an angry, thoughtful and profound work from one of the world’s great filmmakers and is not to be missed.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Peter Sobczynski The complexity of both the narrative and the character of Hedda has been all but removed as the film starts to feel more like a Saltburn knockoff than anything else.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Peter Sobczynski Once it gets past all off that to the meat of the story and the drama begins to take hold amidst the lavish visual design, it really kicks into gear, becoming a bold, daring and at times startlingly emotional take on the familiar storyline.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Peter Sobczynski this particular project proves to be a good showcase for Lanthimos’s particularly peculiar brand of deadpan surrealism and he keeps things moving along even when Will Tracy’s screenplay occasionally threatens to go off the rails.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Peter Sobczynski Despite my general fondness for the franchise up till now, even I recognize the absolute hollowness of this deeply dubious stab at brand extension.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) Peter Sobczynski As crazy-pants, eye-popping and swoon-worthy as it was when it first came out, The Lovers on the Bridge is a work of such grand beauty and ambition that I find myself actually pitying those who have never found themselves sharing its glorious wavelength.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Peter Sobczynski Bigelow delivers it with a lot of style but is hobbled by a screenplay that plays more like a writing exercise than a compelling story
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Peter Sobczynski It is ironic that the film is set amidst the classrooms and offices of one of the world’s most prestigious universities since the screenplay would barely pass muster in an Intro writing class at most community colleges.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Peter Sobczynski a largely tepid and largely forgettable work in which the politics and passion that once drove the narrative seem to have gotten lost in its transition to the screen.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
V/H/S Halloween (2025) Peter Sobczynski Although undeniably uneven as a whole, V/H/S/Halloween does have its moments of genuine inspiration and demonstrates that after eight feature films, the basic conceit driving the franchise still has some life left in it
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ice Tower (2025) Peter Sobczynski there is a part of me that almost wants to recommend it despite my obvious misgivings because while it doesn’t “work,” as they say, as a whole, it contains a number of images that will be rattling in my head for quite a while.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Boy (2025) Peter Sobczynski Make no mistake about it, Good Boy is essentially a gimmick film but in this particular case, the gimmick in question is one that is relatively ingenious in both concept and execution.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Bone Lake (2024) Peter Sobczynski Not nearly as startling or as transgressive as it wants us to believe that it is
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Anemone (2025) Peter Sobczynski While the younger Day-Lewis clearly has a keen visual eye that gives the film a striking look throughout that is both lovely and ominous, it falls flat whenever it tries to deal with the characters and their considerable issues.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Peter Sobczynski I could never quite grasp what it was about Kerr’s story that Safdie found so compelling that he wanted to bring it to the screen
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Eleanor the Great (2025) Peter Sobczynski However, the problem with the film is that it seems to go out of its way to avoid the dark ramifications of that premise by replacing it with bland, cloying sentimentality to such a point that the entire presumable point of the project is rendered moot
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Peter Sobczynski It manages to hold you so completely enraptured through every moment of its extended running time that it will leave you wondering if you really saw what you just saw or had somehow dreamed it all up in your mind.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
London Calling (2025) Peter Sobczynski Even for a film led by the likes of Josh Duhamel, whose presence in anything these days in more of a warning than anything else, London Calling is pretty shabby.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
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