PETERSON REVIEWS
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Operatics
‘Maria’ and ‘The Brutalist,’ reviewed.
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Vampires
‘Hard Truths’ and ‘Nosferatu,’ reviewed.
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My Favorite Movies of 2024
In no particular order.
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My Favorite First-Time Watches of 2024
The best movies I saw in 2024 that weren’t released in 2024.
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Jagged Edges
‘Babygirl,’ ‘The Last Showgirl,’ and ‘Queer,’ reviewed.
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The Idea of You
Notes on ‘Letter from an Unknown,’ Max Ophüls’ masterpiece of unrequited love.
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Women on the Verge
‘The Room Next Door,’ ‘The Girl with the Needle,’ and ‘Nightbitch,’ reviewed.
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‘Now and Then’ is an Underrated Coming-of-Age Movie
Lesli Linka Glatter’s feature-length debut is the rare coming-of-age film to foreground the mundane moments of female friendship.
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‘Oh, Canada’ and ‘Nickel Boys’ Look Back on Painful Pasts
For South Sound: New movies from Paul Schrader and RaMell Ross, reviewed.
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‘The Fall’ is More Than Just a Feast for the Eyes
In addition to being a visual treat, Tarsem Singh’s criminally underseen fantasy film is also pretty moving.
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‘Mother’ Never Lets You Guess Its Next Move
You can never be too certain where Bong Joon-ho’s 2009 drama is going to go next.
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John Carswell’s American Graffiti
For 425: Catching up with a Snohomish County man who’s amassed the world’s largest collection of graffiti and urban art on canvas.
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
