PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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Guitar Hero Marnie Stern, Back and Better Than Ever, is Coming to Tacoma
The guitar god just put out her first album in a decade. Now, she’s hitting the road.
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‘Tótem’ is Moving Without Being Mawkish
Lila Avilés’ emotional second feature wisely doesn’t give into the melodramatic possibilities its gutting story poses.
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‘The Doll Squad’: An Inept Spy Thriller with an Undeniable Vision
Ted V. Mikels’ 1973 movie squanders its early promise, but it at least has the intriguing germ of an idea ‘Charlie’s Angels’ would soon improve on.
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Barbara Stanwyck Towers Over Everything in ‘Forty Guns’
Director Samuel Fuller seems to appreciate the veteran actress as if she were a national monument in this 1957 Western.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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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.
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
