PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ Comes Close to the Original’s Glory
The glamorous fun of the 1968 classic is nearly matched in the enjoyable 1999 remake.
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Make Me Over
‘The Substance,’ reviewed.
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‘The Thieves’ Charmingly Tweaks the ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ Formula
Though a little too long, Choi Dong-hoon’s commercial juggernaut is mostly a blast.
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‘Nine Queens’ Keeps You on Your Toes
Writer-director Fabián Bielinsky’s filmmaking debut, now widely heralded in its native Argentina as a classic, is a smart, suspenseful con-artist thriller.
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Out of the Past
‘My First Film’ and ‘Rebel Ridge,’ reviewed.
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‘The Anderson Tapes’ Can’t Transcend Its Gimmick
And it doesn’t even use its gimmick that effectively.
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Summer Sun
‘Bitter Rice’ is both an incisive commentary on labor struggle and a captivating romantic melodrama.
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You Can’t Take Your Eyes Off Melina Mercouri in ‘Topkapi’
Jules Dassin’s breezy caper is technically an ensemble movie, but nobody captures your attention as much as Mercouri.
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ is an Inspired Resurrection
Tim Burton’s new sequel is about as good as the original.
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What to Expect from This Year’s Gig Harbor Film Festival
The event’s executive director, Pamela Holt, talks 2024 upgrades, special guests, favorite films, and more.
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‘How to Steal a Million’ is Frivolous Fun
You’d forget this 1966 caper if not for Audrey Hepburn’s and Peter O’Toole’s affable performances.
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Voyages
On ‘Alien: Romulus’ and ‘Between the Temples.’
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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