PETERSON REVIEWS
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Sin and Vice
On ‘The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh,’ ‘Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key,’ and ‘All the Colors of the Dark,’ an informal trilogy from Sergio Martino starring Edwige Fenech.
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‘I Vampiri’ is Both Nothing Special and Very Special
On Riccardo Freda’s stylish, historically significant horror movie.
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‘Baby Blood’ is Slippery, Gnarly Pregnancy Horror
Carrying a baby to term is already hard enough. What if you had to lug around a parasite forcing you to feed on human blood, too?
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Basic Instinct
‘Fair Play’ and ‘The Royal Hotel,’ reviewed.
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Marki Bey Makes ‘Sugar Hill’ Worth Watching
This voodoo-heavy revenge thriller is so-so, but Bey’s steely performance gives it some charge.
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‘Ghostwatch’ is a Masterwork of the Found-Footage Horror Subgenre
‘Ghostwatch’’s blacklisted quality only heightens the good time
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Terror and Transformation in ‘The White Reindeer’
Recognized as one of Finland’s first genre movies, Erik Blomberg’s feature debut is a chilling story of domestic malaise and transformation.
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‘Five Dolls for an August Moon’: A Stylish, Silly Riff on ‘And Then There Were None’
Mario Bava’s waterlocked mystery is far from his best, but it’s at least predictably great to look at.
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Love and War in ‘Strange Way of Life’
On Pedro Almodóvar’s new short.
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The Force and Fury of ‘The Last of the Mohicans’
Still unlike anything he’s ever done, Michael Mann’s 1992 historical epic is spectacular in a how-did-they-do-this kind of way without letting its astonishing presentation eclipse everything else.
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François Truffaut’s Taming of a ‘Wild Child’
The French filmmaker’s dramatization of the real-life case of Victor of Aveyron is frequently moving, but it’s hampered by its aloof presentation and Truffaut’s casting of himself in the lead role.
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Short Takes: ‘Fremont,’ ‘Cassandro,’ and ‘The Origin of Evil’
Movies about immigration, wrestling pioneers, and rich people behaving badly.
JANUARY 2026
The Theme is ‘Endings’
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‘In the Bedroom’ is a Powerful Meditation on Grief
On actor turned director Todd Field’s first effort as a filmmaker.
November 6, 2025
October 27, 2025
September 17, 2025
The Hunger
Antonio Pietrangeli’s 1965 black comedy ‘I Knew Her Well’ is one of its decade’s most undersung works.
December 18, 2025
Parallel Lines
Zeinabu irene Davis’ one and only feature-length movie, 1999’s ‘Compensation,’ has gotten a well-deserved second life this year.
December 3, 2025
Do the Right Thing
Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy-commencing ‘Where is the Friend’s House?’ empathetically sees the world through a particularly well-meaning child’s eyes.
November 12, 2025
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