PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.’
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‘The Book of Stone’: Slow-Burning Horror Done Right
Carlos Enrique Taboada’s fourth film as a director extols the virtues of taking your time in a genre prone to revealing too much too soon.
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Liv Victorino Would Like to Reintroduce Herself
For 425: Armed with a new single, with another on the way soon, the Sammamish-raised singer-songwriter is looking to expand the sound and scope first heard on her debut EP.
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‘Phenomena’ Sticks the Landing
Otherwise, Dario Argento’s 1985 return to the supernatural is mostly a slog.
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The Homemade Charms of ‘Bugged’
Notable for being a rare monster movie with a nearly all-Black cast, this 1996 horror comedy’s lack of budget is mostly more of a feature than a bug.
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What to Know About MoPOP’s New Keith Haring Exhibit
For 425: ‘Keith Haring: A Radiant Legacy’ opens today. Here’s what you should know.
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‘The Outrun’ and ‘Daaaaaalí’ Are Kaleidoscopic Character Studies
For 425: These new movies’ nonlinear approaches to character and narrative are inspired — for the most part.
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Haunted Houses
On Michael Roemer’s startling family drama ‘Vengeance is Mine.’
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The Surprising Sensitivity of ‘The Leopard Man’
This proto-slasher from 1943 takes pains to show that its victims are more than their fates.
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A New Way of Seeing Nirvana
For South Sound: Storied Northwest photographer Charles Peterson released a photo book, ‘Charles Peterson’s Nirvana,’ earlier this year. Now, it’s being expanded into a Tacoma Art Museum exhibit.
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘Desperate Living’ Feels Like the End of an Era
John Waters’ last movie before making his foray into the mainstream is among his most underrated.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 2026
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
Peterson Reviews 