PETERSON REVIEWS
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Mikey Madison is Wonderful in ‘Anora’
Plus: Steve McQueen returns with a new period piece.
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How Big Picture Made It to 25
For 425: Spouses and co-founders Mark and Katie Stern discuss the business’s evolution, favorite memories, their pioneering business model, and more.
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‘Waist Deep’ is Shallow Fun
This Tyrese Gibson- and Meagan Good-fronted noir benefits from being not much more than solidly made and entertaining.
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‘Love at Large’ is a Seductive, Off-Kilter Noir
Alan Rudolph’s stylish neo-noir has one foot in the past and the other in the present.
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Jean Gillie is the Reason to See ‘Decoy’
Jack Bernhard’s 1946 noir never completely grabs you, but Gillie’s impressively vicious performance almost makes up for it.
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‘Visible Secret’ is a Low-Key, Surprisingly Spooky Romantic Comedy
Ann Hui’s 2001 movie posits what a rom-com might look like with a ‘Sixth Sense’-esque underlay.
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World-Class Sinners
‘Conclave’ and ‘The Shadow Strays,’ reviewed.
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‘The Happiness of the Katakuris’’ Audacity Can Only Get It So Far
Takashi Miike’s exceedingly odd horror-comedy-musical hybrid is, at the very least, truly original.
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Sweating It Out with Charli XCX and Troye Sivan
For 425: The pop stars concluded their coheadlining Sweat Tour at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena this week.
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Heaven and Hell
‘Island of Lost Souls’ is still chilling nearly a century later.
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Portraits
‘Sweetheart Deal’ and ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness,’ reviewed.
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Strange Invader
On the horrifying violations of 1982’s ‘The Entity.’
MARCH 2026
The Theme is ‘Acting’
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‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Cuts Deep
The movie established director-actor-co-writer Robert Townsend not only as an astute critic but a limber comedy performer in the improv tradition.
February 4, 2025
November 6, 2025
October 27, 2025
Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
February 25, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
February 23, 2026
The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
February 16, 2026
Peterson Reviews 