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Peter John Dyer

Peter John Dyer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) 87% EDIT “Breakfast at Tiffany's is a charming, rather cock-eyed, whimsical, fantastical, sentimental fairy story, with a whopping part for Audrey Hepburn.” – Sight & Sound Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Death of a Friend (1959) EDIT “That the film, for all its truth, cannot ultimately succeed in transcending its convention is betrayed by the ending.” – Sight & Sound Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Fantastic Voyage (1966) 91% EDIT “Technically, the film is only too obviously under all kinds of strain, as if trying to live up to a budget which it never wanted in the first place.” – Sight & Sound Apr 2, 2020 Full Review A Hatful of Rain (1957) EDIT “Certain choice themes from Death of a Salesman and The Rack echo throughout with rueful opportunism, only to join a mainstream of equally familiar basic preoccupations.” – Sight & Sound Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965) 84% EDIT “Agnes Moorehead is no less brilliant than Miss Davis as the rawboned, ferret-eyed housekeeper.” – Sight & Sound Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Repulsion (1965) 96% EDIT “The rest of the film has that gurgling, soapy sound of muffed intentions going down the plug hole like bath water.” – Sight & Sound Mar 31, 2020 Full Review White Nights (1957) 89% EDIT “The acting is everything one has a right to expect from a well- ordered seance.” – Sight & Sound Mar 30, 2020 Full Review Separate Tables (1958) 68% EDIT “Because [Terence] Rattigan here cares more for theatrical effects than human beings, the implication is assumed in headlines rather than established: his grey little world of failure remains obstinately out of touch with reality.” – Sight & Sound Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Mamma Roma (1962) 95% EDIT “In its rhetorical way the film is a good deal more powerful and assured than Accattone.” – Sight & Sound Mar 11, 2020 Full Review Hatari! (1962) 65% EDIT “That Hataril, for all its elements of self-parody, is never downright dispiriting is largely due to Hawks' tireless flair for buoyant comedy.” – Sight & Sound Mar 6, 2020 Full Review The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 96% EDIT “Its unreal characters [are] essentially relevant to ourselves in the Cold War, its extravagant fears for the future rooted logically in the recent past.” – Sight & Sound Mar 6, 2020 Full Review The Young Savages (1961) 44% EDIT “This chaotic mass of truisms has reduced its director to what one can only assume is severe anxiety state.” – Sight & Sound Feb 11, 2020 Full Review The Hoodlum Priest (1961) 100% EDIT “The film generates both sympathy and concern.” – Sight & Sound Feb 11, 2020 Full Review Purple Noon (1960) 92% EDIT “This kind of thriller calls for finesse, perception and a knife-edged narrative drive. Plein soleil looks too often instead like an over-illustrated travel brochure.” – Sight & Sound Feb 11, 2020 Full Review The Raven (1963) 88% EDIT “A pity the equation doesn't always add up: there's too much slack, due perhaps to an imbalance between the comedy, which runs riot, and the horror, which trails behind in the wake of previous Corman films.” – Sight & Sound Feb 11, 2020 Full Review Spartacus (1960) 93% EDIT “The result, to all intents and purposes, is pre-ordained.” – Sight & Sound Feb 10, 2020 Full Review Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) 87% EDIT “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning holds one principally as the portrait of a dimly dawning conscience, a boy-into-man metamorphosis too consistently honest to permit false ironies or heroics. But it has other distinctions.” – Sight & Sound Feb 10, 2020 Full Review The Apartment (1960) 93% EDIT “While the mordant ruthlessness of the asides at the expense of big business intrigues, indiscretions and Christmas parties is compromised by a final sequence of quite awful sentimentality.” – Sight & Sound Feb 5, 2020 Full Review Psycho (1960) 97% EDIT “Psycho comes nearer to attaining an exhilarating balance between content and style than anything Hitchcock has done in years. Of course, it is a very minor work. But its virtues of tension, surprise, virtuosity and control are all major ones.” – Sight & Sound Jan 11, 2020 Full Review
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