PETERSON REVIEWS
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Paths of Resistance
‘A Special Day,’ Ettore Scola’s moving, antifascist two-hander from 1977, features stunning work from Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
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The Powerful Testimonies of ‘Sudan, Remember Us’
Journalist and filmmaker Hind Meddeb’s latest project is an indispensable, multiperspective account of resistance.
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‘The Five Heartbeats’ Invigorates the Biopic Form
Director-star-co-writer Robert Townsend’s initially shrugged-at, decades-spanning drama about the lives and careers of Black, 1960s vocal-group members is lovable even when it’s employing genre clichés.
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‘Powwow Highway’ is an Exemplary Road Movie
A Martinez and Gary Farmer are terrific in Jonathan Wacks’ 1989 comedy-drama.
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‘Weapons’ is a Step Down for Zach Cregger
A busy narrative approach and some resonant topicality can’t obscure the much-buzzed-about movie’s limitations.
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The Boundless Energy of ‘She Shoots Straight’
Corey Yuen’s 1990 revenge thriller is a masterclass in action filmmaking.
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Frenemy Melodrama ‘The Turning Point’ Lets Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft Down
The 1977 Oscar nomination-gobbling soap opera is far more tedious than one might expect.
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Romantic Commitment is a Nightmare in ‘Together’
For South Sound: ‘Together’ and ‘The Naked Gun,’ reviewed.
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Brighter Days Ahead
Lino Brocka’s ‘Manila in the Claws of Light,’ from 1975, has rightfully long been heralded as the crown jewel of Filipino cinema.
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Sexy Beast
Alain Delon was at his most astonishing-looking in ‘Purple Noon,’ René Clément’s 1960 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s dark, seductive ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley.’
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Iggy Pop’s Raw Power
For 425: What I saw at the rock iconoclast’s show at Redmond’s Marymoor Park.
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‘To a Land Unknown’ is a Harrowing, Deeply Compassionate Thriller
Danish-Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel’s long-in-the-making second feature is one of the year’s best movies.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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The Harrowing, Empathetic ‘Streetwise’
Martin Bell’s landmark movie about teenage runaways and outcasts getting by in downtown Seattle is a haunting group portrait.
August 19, 2026
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May 13, 2026
Strong, Stoic Types
Director-star Paul Newman’s 1971 treatment of Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’ perceptively observes the corrosiveness of toxic masculinity.
August 7, 2026
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.
July 9, 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
