PETERSON REVIEWS
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Acting Out
‘Forastera’ and ‘Scary Movie,’ reviewed.
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Glamour Girls
On ‘The Queen,’ Frank Simon’s flawed but essential 1968 documentary.
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‘Backrooms’ Does More Than It Needs to
Kane Parsons’ adaptation of his popular web series is best when it leans into its mysteriousness.
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The Sledgehammer-Force Provocations of ‘Bamboozled’
Spike Lee’s 2000 TV satire has a reputation as a failure. It doesn’t deserve it.
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‘Breaking News’: Great Action Filmmaking with Pointed Critiques
Johnnie To’s 2004 thriller hosts both exemplary action sequences and sharp indictments of the police and media.
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‘Quiz Show’ Thoughtfully — and a Little Misleadingly — Revisits an Industry-Changing Scandal
Robert Redford’s fact-based drama looks at vintage game-show deception with some truth-smudging of its own.
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‘I Love Boosters’ is Thematically Resonant, Narratively Muddled Fun
Rapper-turned-filmmaker Boots Riley’s long-awaited feature-length follow-up to 2018’s ‘Sorry to Bother You’ is amiable but a little all over the place.
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Telehealth Wants You to Dance Through the Chaos
For South Sound: Recently signed to storied Seattle label Sub Pop Records, Telehealth released its sophomore album, ‘Green World Image,’ on May 15.
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SIFF Diary: 2026
What I saw at this year’s edition of the Seattle International Film Festival.
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Demi Lovato Knows How to Command a Room
For 425: The 33-year-old pop star sounded better than ever at her Climate Pledge Arena show this week.
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This Pioneering Auburn Funeral Home is the Subject of a New Documentary
For South Sound: ‘The Life We Leave’ is screening twice at the upcoming Seattle International Film Festival.
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‘Blue Heron’ is a Mosaic-Like Memory Movie
Sophy Romvari’s feature-length debut continues the affecting, understated personal excavations of her acclaimed short films.
AUGUST 2026
The Theme is ‘Personal History’
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‘The Stranger’ is a Family-Reunion Drama with the Lift of a Thriller
‘The Stranger’’s subversiveness, unexpectedly, lies in its optimism — its unspoken plea for open-heartedness.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 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
Average Joes
Greg Berlanti’s ‘The Broken Hearts Club’ feels like a classic hidden in plain sight.
June 19, 2026
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