PETERSON REVIEWS
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Sympathy for the Robot
‘Companion’ and ‘Love Me, reviewed.
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The Charming Trashiness of ‘Wild Things’
John McNaughton’s overheated Florida noir benefits from not taking itself too seriously.
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A Playing-Against-Type Danny Glover (Mostly) Holds ‘Switchback’ Together
Otherwise, this crime thriller is cluttered and overly complicated.
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The Unrelenting Grimness of ‘Frozen River’
Misty Upham and especially Melissa Leo are excellent in this frostbitten drama.
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‘Chilly Scenes of Winter’’s Post-Breakup Blues
Writer-director Joan Micklin Silver potently examines how lost love can push a once-stable person off their rocker.
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‘Presence’: Steven Soderbergh’s Audacious Take on Haunted-House Horror
Shot from a ghost’s-eye view, the adventurous filmmaker’s not-quite-horror movie has more tricks up its sleeve than its ingenious formal gimmick.
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‘Black Coal, Thin Ice’ is a Smart, Chilly Detective Noir
The way writer-director Diao Yinan manages to spin a potentially lurid murder mystery without a whiff of sensationalism is impressive.
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‘One of Them Days’ Might Make You Yearn for More Mid-Budget Studio Comedies
Keke Palmer and SZA are fantastic in this delightful buddy comedy.
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‘Cool Runnings’ Makes Sports-Movie Clichés Slightly More Bearable
The Disney-sanctioned account of how Jamaica’s first bobsleighing team came together packs few surprises, but you mostly don’t mind.
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‘Cliffhanger’ Keeps You on Edge
This Renny Harlin-directed Sylvester Stallone vehicle is ridiculous action-filmmaking gold.
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‘Last Holiday’ is the Right Kind of Corny
Queen Latifah is a beacon of light in Wayne Wang’s heartwarming comedy-drama.
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The Comic Comforts of ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’
The first Wallace and Gromit movie since 2005’s ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ is predictably delightful.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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The Harrowing, Empathetic ‘Streetwise’
Martin Bell’s landmark movie about teenage runaways and outcasts getting by in downtown Seattle is a haunting group portrait.
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
