PETERSON REVIEWS
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The Quiet Power of ‘Priscilla’
Sofia Coppola’s adaptation of Priscilla Presley’s ‘Elvis & Me’ is her best work since 2010’s ‘Somewhere.’
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‘Demon Knight’ is a Devilishly Good Time
The first cinematic extension of HBO’s ‘Tales from the Crypt’ is darkly funny and frequently thrilling.
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‘The Case of the Bloody Iris’ is a Solid, If By-the-Numbers, Giallo
Edwige Fenech is, as always, magnetic in a slasher movie you can’t help but wish were directed by frequent collaborator Sergio Martino.
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Find Artists at the Top of Their Game
New movies from Martin Scorsese and the Taylor Swift Industrial Complex.
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The Winking Fun of ‘The Last Horror Film’
This comedy-horror movie allows Caroline Munro and Joe Spinell to play with the images with which they’re associated.
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‘Retribution’ is a Sad, Scary Ghost Story
Like so many of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s other horror movies, ‘Retribution’ does more than simply frighten.
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‘The Witch’s Mirror’: Inventive, To-the-Point Gothic Horror from Mexico
This 75-minute movie makes so many narrative pivots that it can feel like several films in one. That isn’t a bad thing.
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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.
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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