PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.’
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‘The Juniper Tree’: A Feminist Spin on a Fairy Tale Featuring a Pre-Fame Björk
Nietzchka Keene’s most famous feature is more admirable than absorbing, but it has some stunning black-and-white visuals and a performance from a 21-year-old Björk that shows how fully formed her singularity was from the outset.
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The Influential Thrills of ‘A Better Tomorrow’
On John Woo’s pioneering 1986 actioner.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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In ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,’ It’s All in the Process
Revisiting Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary, which trains its gaze on the Troisgros family and its various culinary pursuits.
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
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