PETERSON REVIEWS
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Vincent Price Makes ‘Theatre of Blood’ Seem Better Than It Is
The horror icon’s performance makes you go a lot easier on a movie that’s much less sharp and suspenseful than it ought to be.
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Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
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‘A Poet’ is No Redemption Story
Simón Mesa Soto’s tragicomedy, about a failed poet who finds something to live for in a talented young student, seems poised to be conventionally uplifting before taking some knottier turns.
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The Calculated Cruelty of ‘Salaam Cinema’
Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s not-quite-documentary is revelatory — and gets its hands a little dirty in the process.
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Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
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Arrangements
‘Pillion’ and ‘Mistress Dispeller,’ reviewed.
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Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
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Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
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‘Shoot the Moon’: An Underrated Reminder of Diane Keaton’s Generational Genius
Alan Parker’s 1982 divorce drama is among the genre’s most emotionally evocative works.
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Short Takes: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ ‘My Father’s Shadow,’ and ‘Nirvanna’
For South Sound: New movies from Emerald Fennell, Akinola Davies Jr., and Matt Johnson, reviewed.
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The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
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Recent History
‘The Moment’ and ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ reviewed.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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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.
March 27, 2026
February 4, 2026
November 6, 2025
Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
March 30, 2026
Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
March 11, 2026
Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
March 4, 2026
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