Peter Knegt

indieWIRE

Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Peter Knegt has been working with indieWIRE since September 2006, when he interned for them during the Toronto International Film Festival. Since then, he’s managed to stick around, becoming iW’s Associate Editor and writing weekly columns focusing on both box office and the awards race.  Beyond indieWIRE, Knegt has contributed as a writer to several publications including Variety, Xtra!, Exclaim, ION Magazine, and Playback, served as juror and panelist at the Atlanta International Film Festival, and has worked for the Reel Asian International Film Festival, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Image+Nation Montreal Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and co-programmed the inaugural year of the Reel Out Film Festival in Halifax. 

Links: Peter's Blog

From Peter's Blog

Best of the Decade Critics Survey 2000s »

Best of the Decade »

1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2) Brokeback Mountain

3) In the Mood for Love

4) Before Sunset

5) There Will Be Blood

6) Far From Heaven

7) Dancer in the Dark

8) Talk to Her

9) Finding Nemo

10) Once

Annual Critics Survey 2009 »

Best Film »

1) Bright Star

2) Summer Hours

3) Up

4) A Serious Man

5) 35 Shots of Rum

6) Inglourious Basterds

7) The Hurt Locker

8) Julia

9) A Single Man

10) District 9

Best Lead Performance »

1) Tilda Swinton, Julia

2) Colin Firth, A Single Man

3) Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

4) Catalina Saavedra, The Maid

5) Carey Mulligan, An Education

Best Supporting Performance »

1) Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" By Sapphire

2) Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

3) Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air

4) Paul Schneider, Bright Star

5) Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds

Best Director »

1) Jane Campion, Bright Star

Best Documentary »

1) Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Best Screenplay »

1) Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best First Feature »

1) Neill Blomkamp, District 9

Best Undistributed Film »

1) Applause

2) Best Worst Movie

3) For the Love of Movies

4) Hipsters

5) October Country

6) She, a Chinese

7) To Die Like a Man

8) Trash Humpers

9) Wolfy

10) You Wont Miss Me

Films

35 Shots of Rum A

500 Days of Summer C+

8: The Mormon Proposition C+ (Review)

A Room and a Half B

A Serious Man A

A Single Man A-

Abel B-

Adventureland B+

Afterschool D

An Education B+

Animal Kingdom B

Antichrist B

Anvil! The Story of Anvil A-

Avatar C+

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans B+

Blue Valentine B+

Boy B-

Bright Star A

Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) B+

Bruno C+

Catfish B

Chloe C+

Cold Souls B

Coraline B+

Crazy Heart C+

Cyrus A- (Review)

District 9 A-

Everybody’s Fine D+

Fantastic Mr. Fox A-

Fish Tank A-

Food, Inc. B+

Greenberg B-

HOWL B-

Hesher C- (Review)

Humpday A-

I Am Love A

I Love You Philip Morris D+

In the Loop A-

Inglourious Basterds A

Invictus C+

J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother) A-

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work B+

Julia A

Lymelife D+

Me and Orson Welles C

Micmacs B

Moon B

Mother and Child C-

Nine C+

Observe and Report B

Paranormal Activity B-

Please Give A-

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire B+

Saturday Night B+

Serious Moonlight C

Spring Breakdown B

Summer Hours A

Sunshine Cleaning B-

The Cove B+

The Headless Woman A-

The Hurt Locker A

The Kids Are All Right A (Review)

The Lovely Bones D-

The Maid (La nana) B+

The Messenger B+

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee C-

The Runaways C+

The September Issue B

The Thorn in the Heart B+

The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) A-

Trash Humpers B+

Up A

Up in the Air B

Whatever Works C+

Where the Wild Things Are B+

Whip It B

Winter’s Bone B

happythankyoumoreplease D-
Recent criticWIRE Ratings
A-
Mars
Andrew Grant, Like Anna Karina's Sweater
A
Four Lions
Andrew Grant, Like Anna Karina's Sweater
C
Tiny Furniture
Andrew Grant, Like Anna Karina's Sweater
A-
Audrey the Trainwreck
Vadim Rizov, IFC.com
A-
Winter’s Bone
David Hudson, The Auteurs
C
Tiny Furniture
Vadim Rizov, IFC.com
B
Audrey the Trainwreck
David Hudson, The Auteurs
B
Skeletons
David Hudson, The Auteurs
B-
Daddy Longlegs
Karina Longworth, LA Weekly
B-
Cyrus
Karina Longworth, LA Weekly
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