PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Speak’ Features a Great Early Performance from Kristen Stewart
The TV movie, made when Stewart was just 13, shows how distinctive a performer the actress was from an early age.
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‘Dressed in Blue’ is Essential
Antonio Giménez-Rico’s reality show-esque documentary about six transgender women living in Spain is a powerful snapshot of a moment in time.
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The Emotional Brutality of ‘The Boys in the Band’
This landmark 1970 adaptation of the Off-Broadway play often feels like the cinematic equivalent of rubbing salt into a wound — for better and for worse.
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Johnny Huynh’s Musical Dreams
The University of Washington junior and Bothell resident is juggling school and a budding music career.
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‘Feeling’ and ‘Know Your Place’ Cut Deep
New movies from Joanna Arnow and Zia Mohajerjasbi, reviewed.
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‘Love Lies Bleeding’ is a Tense, Propulsive Story of Toxic Love
Kristen Stewart gives one of her best performances yet in Rose Glass’ noir.
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‘Harry and the Hendersons’ is a Slight But Likable Creature Comedy
It’s like ‘E.T.’ with Sasquatch and without the emotional weight.
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Greener Pastures
‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ ‘Furiosa,’ and ‘Evil Does Not Exist,’ reviewed.
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The Relatable Pains of ‘May’
Writer-director Lucky McKee makes us feel sympathy for the devil.
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‘Kindergarten Cop’ is Surprisingly Delightful
This preposterously conceived 1990 comedy comes together a lot better than you might think.
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How the Issaquah Film Festival is Scaling Up This Year
The festival, which debuted last year, is gearing up for a more ambitious second season.
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SIFF Diary: Rainbeers, Bad Grandmas, and Movies About Movies, Oh My!
What I’ve seen in the last week at the Seattle International Film Festival.
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘Punks’ is a Lovable Ensemble Dramedy
Writer-director Patrik-Ian Polk’s to-follow TV show — the two-season-long ‘Noah’s Arc,’ which premiered on Logo in 2005 — only expanded on ‘Punks’’ group-of-gay-people-figuring-life-out conceit.
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
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