PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Backrooms’ Does More Than It Needs to
Kane Parsons’ adaptation of his popular web series is best when it leans into its mysteriousness.
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The Sledgehammer-Force Provocations of ‘Bamboozled’
Spike Lee’s 2000 TV satire has a reputation as a failure. It doesn’t deserve it.
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‘Breaking News’: Great Action Filmmaking with Pointed Critiques
Johnnie To’s 2004 thriller hosts both exemplary action sequences and sharp indictments of the police and media.
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‘Quiz Show’ Thoughtfully — and a Little Misleadingly — Revisits an Industry-Changing Scandal
Robert Redford’s fact-based drama looks at vintage game-show deception with some truth-smudging of its own.
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‘I Love Boosters’ is Thematically Resonant, Narratively Muddled Fun
Rapper-turned-filmmaker Boots Riley’s long-awaited feature-length follow-up to 2018’s ‘Sorry to Bother You’ is amiable but a little all over the place.
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Telehealth Wants You to Dance Through the Chaos
For South Sound: Recently signed to storied Seattle label Sub Pop Records, Telehealth released its sophomore album, ‘Green World Image,’ on May 15.
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SIFF Diary: 2026
What I saw at this year’s edition of the Seattle International Film Festival.
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Demi Lovato Knows How to Command a Room
For 425: The 33-year-old pop star sounded better than ever at her Climate Pledge Arena show this week.
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This Pioneering Auburn Funeral Home is the Subject of a New Documentary
For South Sound: ‘The Life We Leave’ is screening twice at the upcoming Seattle International Film Festival.
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‘Blue Heron’ is a Mosaic-Like Memory Movie
Sophy Romvari’s feature-length debut continues the affecting, understated personal excavations of her acclaimed short films.
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Loving and Hating ‘Soapdish’
The 1991 comedy is a delightful send-up of the soap-opera world. Then its ending comes.
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Reunions
‘Erupcja’ and ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2,’ reviewed.
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘Broadcast News’ is a Great Romantic Comedy
Nothing exists in a simple binary in Albert L. Brooks’ dazzling 1987 comedy.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 2026
Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
March 30, 2026
Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
March 11, 2026
Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
March 4, 2026
Peterson Reviews 