PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Summer with Monika’’s Haunted Honeymoon Phase
Being young and carefree eventually takes a toll in this early Ingmar Bergman drama.
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‘Bull Durham’ is a Charmingly Loony Romantic Comedy
Susan Sarandon is the best thing about Ron Shelton’s feature-directing debut.
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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.
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘Desperate Living’ Feels Like the End of an Era
John Waters’ last movie before making his foray into the mainstream is among his most underrated.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 2026
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
Peterson Reviews 