PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘The Driver’ Cuts to the Chase
Walter Hill’s 1978 movie is a cat-and-mouse thriller at its most distilled.
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‘Bullitt’: An Aerodynamic Police Procedural
There’s nothing narratively remarkable about this by-the-books detective thriller; what is is its cool style and Steve McQueen’s artfully insouciant performance.
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Pain and Pleasure in ‘Perfect Days’ and ‘The Color Purple’
New movies from Wim Wenders and Blitz Bazawule, reviewed.
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Sleater-Kinney Forever
The influential Olympia rock outfit is releasing a new album this month — and celebrating 30 years as a band.
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Burning Out
‘American Fiction,’ ‘The Iron Claw,’ and ‘Ferrari,’ reviewed.
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Favorite Movies of 2023
Obligatory, belated end-of-the-year list alert.
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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.’
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘Punks’ is a Lovable Ensemble Dramedy
Writer-director Patrik-Ian Polk’s to-follow TV show — the two-season-long ‘Noah’s Arc,’ which premiered on Logo in 2005 — only expanded on ‘Punks’’ group-of-gay-people-figuring-life-out conceit.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 2026
Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
March 30, 2026
Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
March 11, 2026
Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
March 4, 2026
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