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Akos Peterbencze

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Akos Peterbencze is an entertainment writer based in London. He covers film and 온라인카지노추천 regularly in his newsletter, The Screen, and at Looper and Paste Magazine. His work has also been published in other outlets like Den of Geek, Slant Magazine, Certified Forgotten, and more. You can find him talking about all things pop culture on Twitter (@akospeterbencze) and Substack (akospeterbencze.substack.com).

Reviews

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Hostel (2005) 60% “Inelegant, schlocky, and full-on? Sure. But it’s also a relentless B-movie hitting your nerves with a blood-soaked meat pounder.” – The Screen Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Hatching (2022) 92% “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.” – The Screen Jan 12, 2025 Full Review Everybody's Fine (2009) 47% “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. ” – The Screen Dec 25, 2024 Full Review Vivarium (2020) 73% “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.” – The Screen Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Vacancy (2007) 55% “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.” – The Screen Nov 26, 2024 Full Review How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024) 98% “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.” – The Screen Nov 9, 2024 Full Review The Descent (2005) 87% “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.” – The Screen Oct 31, 2024 Full Review The Ring Two (2005) 21% “Aidan is one of the weirdest, least likable, and most irritating horror kids that ever graced the silver screen.” – The Screen Oct 28, 2024 Full Review Blink Twice (2024) 75% “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.” – The Screen Oct 15, 2024 Full Review Bad Genius (2024) 72% “Despite its relatively low stakes, Bad Genius is pretty clever about delivering its thrills.” – The Screen Oct 8, 2024 Full Review Jeepers Creepers (2001) 46% “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. ” – The Screen Oct 1, 2024 Full Review Ordinary People (1980) 89% “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. ” – The Screen Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Mirrors (2008) 15% “Aja doesn’t exactly aim for scares but rather utilizes shock value as a provocation of how much gore one can take and endure.” – The Screen Sep 16, 2024 Full Review Rebel Ridge (2024) 95% “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.” – The Screen Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 86% “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.” – The Screen Sep 2, 2024 Full Review Final Destination (2000) 40% “[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.” – The Screen Aug 28, 2024 Full Review The Grudge (2004) 40% “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. ” – The Screen Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Signs (2002) 76% “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.” – The Screen Aug 6, 2024 Full Review The Watchers (2024) 33% “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.” – The Screen Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Monkey Man (2024) 89% “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.” – The Screen May 1, 2024 Full Review Snack Shack (2024) 82% “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.” – The Screen Apr 11, 2024 Full Review 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) 71% “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.” – The Screen Mar 14, 2024 Full Review Ricky Stanicky (2024) 47% 6.5/10 “You can't help but admire its commitment and dedication to following through with a single idea, even if it eventually runs out of gas.” – Looper.com Mar 6, 2024 Full Review The Iron Claw (2023) 89% “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.” – The Screen Feb 21, 2024 Full Review Super (2010) 50% “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!"” – The Screen Jan 4, 2024 Full Review
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