PETERSON REVIEWS
I’m on Spring Break. Posts will resume on April 20.
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‘Monkey Man’ is Relentless — for Better and for Worse
Dev Patel’s directorial debut — which he also wrote, co-produced, and stars in — is frequently thrilling. It can also feel overstuffed.
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Fire and Rain
On ‘Running on Empty.’
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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.
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‘Jawbreaker’ Could Stand to Go Even Further
Obviously indebted to 1989’s ‘Heathers,’ the teen comedy needs to be finer-tuned for the darkness — and preposterousness — of its premise to fully work.
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Ghost Hunters
‘La Chimera’ and ‘Immaculate,’ reviewed.
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Why We Love ‘10 Things I Hate About You’
Key collaborators reminisce about the Seattle-set movie on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
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Odds & Ends: March 2024
Notes from the last month.
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‘Come Drink with Me’: An Essential Wuxia Thriller
It also memorably features Cheng Pei-pei playing who many consider cinema’s first woman action heroine.
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Misadventurers
‘Problemista’ and ‘The Sweet East,’ reviewed.
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Boo-Ya!
On ‘Jackie Brown.’
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‘Bandidas’ is Just Effective Enough to Do Its Dream Pairing Justice
Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz, together at last.
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Pam Grier, in Charming Amateur Detective Mode, in ‘Friday Foster’
Grier’s final movie with American International Pictures is among her most effortlessly enjoyable vehicles.
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 