PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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‘Disturbing Behavior’: An Uneasy Riff on ‘The Stepford Wives’
It’s always watchable, but this ostensible horror comedy is never particularly scary or particularly funny.
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Anna Faris Works Her Magic on ‘The House Bunny’
She isn’t the film’s sole source of laughs, but it definitely wouldn’t work as well as it does without her.
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‘It’s Just the Beginning’: Directors of New Lily Gladstone-Narrated Doc Discuss Project
‘Bring Them Home’ is screening this week at the Seattle International Film Festival.
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‘Scorchy’ Makes the Most of Seattle
This cheaply made procedural is dramatically inert, but it beautifully captures the Northwest city in the mid-1970s.
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More Than You Know
On ‘The Fabulous Baker Boys.’
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‘The Fall Guy’ is a Breezy Action Comedy
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are endlessly charming in David Leitch’s latest.
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‘Scary Movie’ is a Fast-Food Parody Film
Keenen Ivory Wayans’ 2000 comedy is by turns very funny and outrageously offensive.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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In ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,’ It’s All in the Process
Revisiting Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary, which trains its gaze on the Troisgros family and its various culinary pursuits.
August 19, 2026
May 25, 2026
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
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