PETERSON REVIEWS
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Favorite Discoveries of 2023
The best movies I watched this year not released in 2023.
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Odds & Ends: December 2023
Notes from the last month.
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In ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,’ It’s All in the Process
Ninety-three-year-old Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary trains its gaze on the Troisgros family and its various culinary pursuits.
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The Pleasures and Horrors of Self-Discovery in ‘Poor Things’ and ‘Monster’
New movies from Yorgos Lanthimos and Hirokazu Kore-eda, reviewed.
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‘Soul Food’’s Toxic Flavors
The film asks its central family unit to forgive and forget quite a lot for the sake of its happy ending.
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Maneaters
On ‘Eating Raoul’ and ‘Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills.’
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Cooking Dreams
‘Tampopo’ is a touching, fancifully funny movie shot with great original style.
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The Limits of Fantasy in ‘The Boy and the Heron’ and ‘Eileen’
New movies from Hayao Miyazaki and William Oldroyd, reviewed.
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The Pressure-Cooker Dramas of ‘Dinner Rush’
Bob Giraldi’s fourth movie takes place over the course of a night where things feel predestined to explode.
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‘Simply Irresistible’ is a Harmless, Old-Fashioned Rom-Com
A magical crab is both a blessing and a curse in this neither-that-good-nor-that-bad Sarah Michelle Gellar-led romantic comedy.
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‘What’s Cooking?’ is a Charming Ensemble Comedy
Four families try to make it through Thanksgiving unscathed in Gurinder Chadha’s 2000 dramedy.
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Short Takes: ‘The Taste of Things,’ ‘Fallen Leaves,’ and ‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’
New movies from Trần Anh Hùng, Aki Kaurismäki, and Raven Jackson.
MARCH 2026
The Theme is ‘Acting’
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‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Cuts Deep
The movie established director-actor-co-writer Robert Townsend not only as an astute critic but a limber comedy performer in the improv tradition.
February 4, 2025
November 6, 2025
October 27, 2025
Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
February 25, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
February 23, 2026
The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
February 16, 2026
Peterson Reviews 