PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Her Private Hell’ is a Provocative Bore
Nicolas Winding Refn’s first feature-length project since 2016’s ‘The Neon Demon’ is too uninteresting to make you want to give too much air to the outrage it seems to half-anticipate.
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‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Makes You Appreciate Alicia Keys More
For 425: Inspired by the singer-songwriter’s early life, the Tony-winning play is doing a multi-day stint at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre this week.
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The Romanticized Alienation of ‘Fallen Angels’
Wong Kar-wai’s 1995 drama makes loneliness look improbably cool.
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‘The Odyssey’ is Christopher Nolan’s Best Movie in Years
Plus: The dreamy, hard-to-pin-down quality of Avalon Fast’s ‘Camp’ is a feature, not a bug. (For South Sound)
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‘Thief’ Nails Its Set Pieces
The 1981 drama’s rather elegiac narrative isn’t nearly as affecting as it should be, though.
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‘The Invite’ is a Riotous Marriage Comedy
Plus: ‘Maddie’s Secret,’ John Early’s homage to the 1980s’ TV movies of the week, pulls off the unexpected. (For 425)
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Working Girls
‘Broken Mirrors,’ Marleen Gorris’ 1984 follow-up to her still-transcendent feminist drama ‘A Question of Silence,’ expands on its predecessor’s themes while dramatically improving on its writer-director’s aesthetic command.
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‘Night Nurse’: Georgia Bernstein’s Atmospheric, Opaque Feature Debut
The filmmaker’s audacious, narratively undernourished new feature has, above all else, great style.
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‘Rock & Rule’ Could Use a Lot More Rock
As star-studded as this 1983 cartoon for adults’ soundtrack is, it features far fewer musical sequences than you’d expect.
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Found Connections
Donna Deitch’s ‘Desert Hearts’ was a breakthrough for lesbian representation in cinema. It also achieves another rarified thing: Characters who feel like they exist outside a screenplay’s bounds.
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‘Jackass: Best and Last’ Plays It Safe
The storied prank franchise’s purportedly final chapter only underscores how well 2022’s ‘Jackass Forever’ functioned as a finale.
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‘Funeral Parade of Roses’ is a Hypnotizing Swirl
Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 movie is exhilaratingly unclassifiable.
JULY 2026
The Theme is ‘Neon Dreams’
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‘The American Friend’ Works Over You Slowly
On the time Wim Wenders adapted Patricia Highsmith.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 2026
Found Connections
Donna Deitch’s ‘Desert Hearts’ was a breakthrough for lesbian representation in cinema. It also achieves another rarified thing: Characters who feel like they exist outside a screenplay’s bounds.
June 30, 2026
Average Joes
Greg Berlanti’s ‘The Broken Hearts Club’ feels like a classic hidden in plain sight.
June 19, 2026
A Different Angle
On Isaac Julien’s slippery, thoughtful ‘Looking for Langston.’
June 17, 2026
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