PETERSON REVIEWS
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The Seductive Spy Games of ‘Black Bag’
Plus: ‘Eephus’ is a quietly touching baseball movie.
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The Thoughtful Pessimism of ‘White Dog’
Samuel Fuller’s American swan song is characteristically sharp and cynical.
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‘The Cassandra Cat’ Feels Effortlessly Magical
On an affably strange 1963 comedy.
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‘Mickey 17’: Bong Joon Ho’s Goofy Sci-Fi Follow-Up to ‘Parasite’
Plus: Art imitates life in Atom Egoyan’s ‘Seven Veils.’
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‘Deep Blue Sea’: A ‘Jaws’ Riff for the Post-‘Jurassic Park’ Era
Renny Harlin’s creature feature gives you the goods without changing the formula too drastically.
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Walk on the Wild Side
The thematically rich ‘Cat People’ remains a high-water mark for 1940s horror.
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The Family That Stays Together
‘The Monkey’ and ‘Vermiglio,’ reviewed.
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Outgoing Grand Cinema Leader Philip Cowan: ‘I’m Ready to Step Away’
For South Sound: Retiring later this year after nearly 20 years in the role, the executive director of the Tacoma organization discusses the accomplishments he’s most proud of, favorite memories, and why he wouldn’t necessarily call himself a film buff.
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‘Antiporno’’s Productive Unsexiness
Sion Sono’s sui-generis 2016 feature abrasively and abstractly critiques the cultural and cinematic limitations — particularly as they relate to sexual expression — placed on women.
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‘Lisa’ is a Hidden Slasher-Movie Gem
The lived-in mother-daughter relationship at the center of co-writer and director Gary Sherman’s 1990 movie eclipses its conventional slasher-movie B plot.
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‘Habit’ Isn’t Your Average Vampire Movie
The 1997 not-quite-horror film, written, directed, and edited by star Larry Fessenden, is intriguingly slippery.
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Short Takes: ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,’ ‘Universal Language,’ and ‘Paddington in Peru’
For South Sound: New movies from Michael Morris, Matthew Rankin, and Dougal Wilson, reviewed.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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In ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,’ It’s All in the Process
Revisiting Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary, which trains its gaze on the Troisgros family and its various culinary pursuits.
August 19, 2026
May 25, 2026
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
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