Erik Piepenburg
Erik Piepenburg's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Until Dawn (2025)
51%
“Watching someone play a video game that they never let you play is a singular kind of boring. A similar “why am I here?” dullness arrives early and stays late in Until Dawn.” –
New York Times
Apr 24, 2025
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Heart Eyes (2025)
81%
“A horror rom-com can be delightful, but this film would put even Cupid in a bad mood.” –
New York Times
Feb 6, 2025
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Terrifier 3 (2024)
78%
“Nobody is pushing horror boundaries quite like the writer-director Damien Leone. ” –
New York Times
Oct 11, 2024
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Crumb Catcher (2023)
87%
“An aspirationally farcical home invasion thriller that never fully thrills, despite a game cast that does its darnedest to liven up an unfocused script that’s fashioned from genre odds and ends.” –
New York Times
Jul 18, 2024
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
21%
“The hapless script — written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland and based on the original — offers nothing fresh in a tiring 91 minutes, and nothing daring to justify a new “Strangers” film, let alone a new series...” –
New York Times
May 16, 2024
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The People's Joker (2022)
96%
“Within the film’s confessional chaos lives the spirit of Vaginal Davis, Ryan Trecartin and other maverick queer filmmakers who toyed with genre to torpedo gender. It’s reviving to see an artist take up the cause.” –
New York Times
Apr 4, 2024
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When Evil Lurks (2023)
96%
“This is a dark and timely parable about what happens when trust — among community members, within families, between a government and its people — disintegrates.” –
New York Times
Oct 5, 2023
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Something You Said Last Night (2022)
93%
“One can only watch Renata, and this film, do so little for so long before yearning for more than naturalism and tenderness to drive the slice-of-life story.” –
New York Times
Sep 21, 2023
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Satanic Hispanics (2022)
89%
“This anthology of films from five Latino filmmakers sadly doesn’t live up to the promise of devilish short-form horror that its title foreshadows.” –
New York Times
Sep 14, 2023
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022)
88%
“A less sentimental, wish-fulfilling approach to Mexican American identity, gay self-discovery and Reagan-era Texas will wait for another day. Until then, fans of “Heartstopper”-style slow-burn romance will eat up this tender film’s subtle charms.” –
New York Times
Sep 7, 2023
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Sublime (2022)
83%
“Biasin’s script plods as it relies on repetitive band rehearsals and inert conversations to pad a story that only mildly explores young gay desire — like “Heartstopper” but with less charm and fewer stakes.” –
New York Times
Jun 20, 2023
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022)
88%
“It’s really more of an annotated oral history of Englund’s entire, extensive IMDb page — almost film by film, in chronological order, for more than two hours. It’s exhausting.” –
New York Times
Jun 7, 2023
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Living with Chucky (2022)
74%
“Feels like hagiographic DVD featurettes meanderingly stitched together.” –
New York Times
Apr 4, 2023
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