PETERSON REVIEWS
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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 Found-Footage Masterwork
‘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.
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‘Swept Away’: A Shrill, Smart Survival Movie
Lina Wertmüller’s celebrated 1974 movie is an endurance test nearly equal parts offensive and perceptive.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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In ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,’ It’s All in the Process
Revisiting Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary, which trains its gaze on the Troisgros family and its various culinary pursuits.
August 19, 2026
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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
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