PETERSON REVIEWS
I’m on Spring Break. Posts will resume on April 20.
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The Love Games of ‘Challengers’ and ‘The Idea of You’
New movies from Luca Guadagnino and Michael Showalter, reviewed.
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Odds & Ends: April 2024
Notes from the last month.
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River Phoenix Can’t Save ‘A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon’
A dull premise and a hard-to-root-for protagonist torpedo William Richert’s tampered-with coming-of-age comedy.
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‘Linda Linda Linda’ Rocks
This high-school movie makes you want to start a band.
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The Bold Visions of ‘The Beast’ and ‘The People’s Joker’
New movies from Bertrand Bonello and Vera Drew, reviewed.
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‘Dogfight’: A Tender Precursor to ‘Before Sunrise’
Nancy Savoca’s period romance does a lot with a little.
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The Passion of ‘Billie Jean’
‘The Legend of Billie Jean’ is an odd cocktail that goes down easy.
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The Goofy Alarmism of ‘High School Confidential!’
The infamous 1958 high-school drama epitomizes product-of-its-time silliness.
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‘My Own Private Idaho’ is Lucky to Have River Phoenix
Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s insistent overstylization would sink the film if not for the heartbreaking, vivid work of the late actor.
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End Times
‘Civil War’ and ‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World,’ reviewed.
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‘Girlhood’: A Bracing Coming-of-Age Drama from Céline Sciamma
Sciamma avoids the genre’s fondness for sentimentality.
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Fresh from a Grammy Win, säje Looks Ahead
The vocal supergroup won a Grammy earlier this year. Now, it’s turning its focus to touring and a new album.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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The Unrelenting Grimness of ‘Frozen River’
Misty Upham and especially Melissa Leo are excellent in this frostbitten drama.
March 27, 2026
February 4, 2026
November 6, 2025
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 