PETERSON REVIEWS
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The Exploratory Charms of ‘The History of Concrete’
Plus: ‘Verity’ ruins its own high thriller potential. (For South Sound)
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‘The Killing Fields’ Disrupts the White-Savior Trope
Pulling from the experiences of a pair of journalists covering the Khmer Rouge regime’s atrocities, Roland Joffé’s 1984 drama has some emotional limitations and character-based problems but is impressively unwilling to make its real-world horrors more palatable.
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‘Primetime’ is a Lurid Showbiz Comedy
Plus: ‘Chronovisor’ is among the year’s most engrossing thrillers. (For 425)
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‘Resident Evil’ Gets the Job Done
Zach Cregger’s adaptation of the popular Japanese video game — itself already the basis of a lucrative six-part movie franchise — is proficient to a fault.
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‘Our Land’ is a Different Kind of Courtroom Drama
Lucrecia Martel’s first foray into documentary filmmaking uses a much-publicized trial as a conduit to examine her native Argentina’s corrosive colonialist history.
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‘Biker Boyz’: When a Miscast Lead Spoils a Great Premise
Reggie Rock Bythewood’s 2003 action movie plops you into an intriguing world about which you immediately want to know everything. But its central performance drags it all down.
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Short Takes: ‘Practical Magic 2,’ ‘Hope,’ and ‘Late Fame’
For South Sound: New movies from Susanne Bier, Na Hong-jin, and Kent Jones, reviewed.
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‘Urban Cowboy’ is a Country-Fried Cash-in
James Bridges’ handsomely shot 1980 drama is fairly openly indebted to 1977’s ‘Saturday Night Fever.’
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Memory and Family Are Not to Be Trusted in ‘Romería’
Now playing on The Criterion Channel, Carla Simón’s elegant new movie fictionalizes her genealogical history with productive reticence.
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The Perennially Relevant ‘Ladybug Ladybug’
The frustrations at the heart of Eleanor and Frank Perry’s 1963 Cold War drama have barely faded.
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Stepping Up
‘American Doctor’ and ‘Mad Bills to Pay,’ reviewed.
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The Meticulous Empathy of ‘Descendant’
In 2019, a sunken slave ship was discovered, after years of speculation, in Alabama’s Mobile River. A great 2022 documentary, ‘Descendant,’ powerfully probes the aftermath.
NOVEMBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Sibling Bonds’
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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.
October 16, 2026
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May 25, 2026
Smoke and Mirrors
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s inventive documentary isn’t just about the disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.
October 19, 2026
Ghost World
Kaneto Shindō’s ‘Kuroneko’ is still forward-looking in its contempt for patriarchal devastation.
October 15, 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
