Peter Rainer
Tomatometer-approved critic
Neil Young: Coastal (2025)
80%
“It's terrific... Daryl Hannah is a very gifted director. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 13, 2025
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The Amateur (2025)
60%
“It's quite adept... A tribute to "nerd power."” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 13, 2025
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)
86%
“It needed to be a whole lot loonier. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 13, 2025
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The World Will Tremble (2025)
92%
“Becomes a standard-issue escape drama, but it's very well done. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 13, 2025
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The Actor (2025)
79%
“The theatricality of this movie... worked pretty well. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 13, 2025
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The Electric State (2025)
14%
“There is a very Marvel-ish aspect to this film, but in a recycled and dull way.” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 13, 2025
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Novocaine (2025)
81%
“It's very inventive for what it is. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 13, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
“It's a very brisk 90 minutes, which is always very welcome.” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 13, 2025
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The Friend (2024)
84%
3.5/5
“I don’t know if one can rightly call Apollo’s performance a performance. But whatever it is, it’s heartfelt. ” –
Christian Science Monitor
Apr 7, 2025
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The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
98%
5/5
“The Ballad of Wallis Island is both modest and magical. One of its co-stars, Carey Mulligan, has described its tone as a “gentle euphoria.” That phrase perfectly expresses how this wonderful movie transports us.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 27, 2025
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Global Harmony (2024)
“The whole movie is stiff, badly put together and makes no sense in a lot of ways.” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Feb 11, 2025
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Rose (2021)
81%
“The main reason to see it is Fançoise Fabian. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Feb 11, 2025
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Brave the Dark (2023)
74%
“It's all rather standardized and cliché... But it's worth seeing, possibly because of Jared Harris' performance. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Feb 11, 2025
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Eternal You (2024)
90%
“This is a really creepy movie... Really eye-opening.” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Feb 11, 2025
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Presence (2024)
88%
“It's a gimmick... But it's a good gimmick, not one I had really seen before. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Feb 11, 2025
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Nosferatu (2024)
84%
“Eggers is trying to do something different than the other movies, but in a sense he's playing into the same overwrought scariness. The film could use a lot more lightness, if you will.” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Feb 11, 2025
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Babygirl (2024)
76%
“There's a lot that is supposed to be going on in this movie... But somehow, it didn't hold for me as either an erotic film or a film that dealt with power dynamics in a substantive way. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Feb 11, 2025
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Blue Velvet (1986)
91%
“It gets into areas of dread and shock and torment that are so profoundly dislocating and dreamlike that, watching it, you feel as if you're coiled right up inside the vision of an artist with a live feed to the unconscious.” –
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Jan 22, 2025
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I'm Still Here (2024)
97%
5/5
“With everything this film has going for it, it might still not have hit home but for Torres’ shattering performance.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Jan 17, 2025
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Carry-On (2024)
88%
“A real guilty pleasure.” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Jan 17, 2025
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The Last Showgirl (2024)
83%
“Jamie Lee Curtis is excellent in her tough cookie, cynical mode. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Jan 17, 2025
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Oh Canada (2024)
64%
“The movie doesn't have as much emotional weight as it should have been the narrative is so fractured. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Jan 17, 2025
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
“Just because the director has shot it in this way does not mean this was the best way to shoot it. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Jan 17, 2025
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September 5 (2024)
93%
“It's a very good movie, very well-paced. ” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Jan 17, 2025
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
100%
“The most sheerly entertaining movie I've seen this year.” –
FilmWeek (LAist)
Jan 17, 2025
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