PETERSON REVIEWS
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Manhunters
On ‘Longlegs.’
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The Darkness and Light of ‘A Perfect World’
Kevin Costner is tremendous in Clint Eastwood’s winding, affecting road movie.
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Good Vibes, Bad Vibes in ‘The Endless Summer’
The myopia of Bruce Brown’s groundbreaking surf-culture documentary is alternately pleasant and rancid.
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Dressed to Kill
On ‘MaXXXine.’
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Missy Elliott’s Seattle Show Was Out of This World
For 425: The second stop on the producer and rapper’s Out of This World tour was 75 minutes of relentless exhilaration.
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Actorcraft is Cultivating Community — and Honing Acting Chops
For South Sound magazine: Actorcraft, which opened earlier this spring, is a joint venture from Jeremy Kent Jackson and Adrianne Alvarez-Jackson.
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Emily Blunt is Still a Revelation in ‘My Summer of Love’
Blunt’s darkly charismatic performance in her debut film remains one of her best — and exemplifies the kind of intense, slippery work you wish she did more of.
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Golden Hours
‘Janet Planet’ and ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ reviewed.
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‘Waterworld’ Sinks Fast
This sopping-wet riff on the ‘Mad Max’ series has a couple of terrific action sequences and not a lot else.
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The Life-Affirming Melancholy of ‘Certain Women’
Kelly Reichardt’s sparse, elliptical drama finds power in what it doesn’t say.
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‘Young Soul Rebels’ Still Thrums with Urgency
Notes on Isaac Julien’s multifaceted thriller.
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‘Edge of Seventeen’: A Wonderful Coming-of-Age Movie with Few False Notes
Even when the narrative of the film itself isn’t always, it’s a joy to watch a gay coming-of-age movie that neither sugarcoats things nor emphasizes hardship.
MARCH 2026
The Theme is ‘Acting’
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‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Cuts Deep
The movie established director-actor-co-writer Robert Townsend not only as an astute critic but a limber comedy performer in the improv tradition.
February 4, 2025
November 6, 2025
October 27, 2025
Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
February 25, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
February 23, 2026
The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
February 16, 2026
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