Auteurist Class (Substack)

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) 4 days ago the kind of movie that you will want to watch again the moment that it ends, partly out of sheer amazement over what you have just seen and partly in order to help absorb some of the things that you might have missed the first time around. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 100% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) 4 days ago Ultimately, Wicker doesn’t quite “work,” as they say, but even though I don’t think I can fully recommend seeing it, it has enough going for it to make me think that you perhaps ignore what I have said and give it a chance anyway. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) 4 days ago A Talent for Murder never quite pulls itself together into a completely compelling story but as near-misses go, it is one that nevertheless has a few moments of darkly amusing invention Go to Full Review A Talent for Murder (2026) 78% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) 4 days ago it gives us a once-great filmmaker, apparently at a loss for any new ideas, reduced to ransacking through his old bag of tricks in a desperate and ultimately bungled attempt to get lightning to strike once again. Go to Full Review Kung Fu Soccer (2026) 0% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) 5 days ago the film clearly wants to be the next Joker, but it is so aimless, tedious and ineffective that it almost—“almost,”—makes Joker: Folie a Deux seem borderline tolerable by comparison. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Oct 14, 2026 You Can See Everything is a wild, frequently hilarious and often-thoughtful meditation on the very notion of truth presented as a cinematic house of mirrors that always has a new astonishment up its sleeve. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 98% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Oct 14, 2026 This is ultimately a take that proves to be too safe and staid for its own good and which, in the end, never quite makes the case to justify its existence Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 76% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Oct 14, 2026 It could be argued that the film that most accurately captures the madness of the era that we are currently living in is one that was actually made more than a half-century ago. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Oct 14, 2026 Whalefall is a real mess of a movie that yearns to be an inspiring tale of one man’s resilience in the face of isolation and overwhelming odds in the manner of Project Hail Mary but ends up sinking like a stone. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 73% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Oct 7, 2026 While Fincher managed to create something for the ages with his film, Sorkin’s is one that will most likely slip from the collective memory as soon as its hard-sell publicity campaign wraps up. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 30, 2026 As films released this year featuring Anne Hathaway as a writer chafing at the constraints of marriage and familial obligations go, this one is slightly less plausible than The End of Oak Street Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 29, 2026 Here is a film that clearly wants to be seen as the Dr. Strangelove for this particular moment in time but fumbles the ball so badly that it doesn’t even qualify as this generation’s Wrong is Right. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 25, 2026 It comes mighty close to making Natural Born Killers—another grisly media satire with a wild visual aesthetic—seem borderline subtle by comparison. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 23, 2026 It makes for a relatively painless viewing experience, provided you aren’t going into it with particularly elevated expectations. Go to Full Review The Love Hypothesis (2026) 73% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 23, 2026 That said, my guess is that even those who do like Heart of the Beast are going to come away from it remembering the dog far more than the film itself. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 85% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 16, 2026 The film isn’t perfect and it does feel like a bit of a regression for Cregger following the undeniably triumph of Weapons but it does supply plenty of grisly fun, however fleeting it might be. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 10, 2026 The Uprising is an ambitious film, to be sure, but while Greengrass’ attempt to use history as a way of examining current events is laudable in theory, the results are about as subtle as a broadsword to the noggin. Go to Full Review The Uprising (2026) 57% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 10, 2026 The first hour of Hope is such a spectacular stretch of maximalist filmmaking that even as you are watching it, you may find yourself wondering how Na can possibly sustain the momentum, only to eventually discover that he can’t after all. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 79% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 10, 2026 There are two big plot twists towards the end which are so dubious in both concept and execution that even those viewers who are still taking the film seriously at this point are likely to find themselves laughing in disbelief at them. Go to Full Review The Fix (2026) 16% - -

Peter Sobczynski Auteurist Class (Substack) Sep 4, 2026 Well, at least Tom & Jerry don’t talk and the film is, as far as I can tell, entirely Colin Jost-free Go to Full Review Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass (2025) 0% - -