PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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The Style and Shaky Substance of ‘Blink Twice’
Actress Zoë Kravitz’s first effort behind the camera carries on in the tradition of movies like ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ and ‘Promising Young Woman.’
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‘Bones’ Feels a Little Fractured
Ernest Dickerson’s 2001 horror movie has a solid concept, but its stunt casting of Snoop Dogg feels like a mistake.
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‘Dogs in Space’ Captures a Moment
The 1986 film’s unwillingness to filter anything through a nostalgic lens is what makes it work as well as it does.
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‘Performance’ is a Testament to Mick Jagger’s Allure
Other than that, the kaleidoscopic 1970 movie can be a chore to endure.
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Cats and Mice
‘Out of Sight’ is a great time, though it’s its two leads who really make it sizzle.
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Rain Dogs
In ‘Down by Law,’ Jim Jarmusch’s characteristic deadpan style is largely eschewed in favor of something that feels more straightforwardly frank.
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
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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
