PETERSON REVIEWS
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Odds & Ends: 2025 Releases
Notes on a few 2025 releases I got to later than I’d planned on.
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Amanda Seyfried Gives One of the Year’s Great Performances in ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet’s follow-up to ‘The Brutalist’ is characteristically bold and brainy.
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The Hunger
Antonio Pietrangeli’s 1965 black comedy ‘I Knew Her Well’ is one of its decade’s most undersung works.
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Josh O’Connor Makes ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Seem Better Than It Is
The latest ‘Knives Out’ movie is a step down from its predecessors.
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‘The Mastermind’ and ‘The Secret Agent’ Aren’t What You Think
For 425: New movies from Kelly Reichardt and Kleber Mendonça Filho, reviewed.
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‘The Annihilation of Fish’: Charles Burnett’s Rediscovered Midlife Romance
The filmmaker’s recently rediscovered 1999 movie is amiably off-kilter, but it sometimes seems tonally unsure.
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‘Jay Kelly’ and ‘Hamnet’ Want You to Cry
For South Sound: New movies from Noah Baumbach and Chloé Zhao, reviewed.
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Parallel Lines
Zeinabu irene Davis’ one and only feature-length movie, 1999’s ‘Compensation,’ has gotten a well-deserved second life this year.
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Afterwords
‘It Was Just an Accident’ and ‘Rebuilding,’ reviewed.
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‘An Autumn’s Tale’ is Perfectly Bittersweet
Mabel Cheung’s 1987 not-quite-romantic comedy celebrates love as a vessel for positive change.
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Short Takes: ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘Nouvelle Vague,’ ‘Wicked: For Good,’ and ‘Train Dreams’
For 425: New movies from Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Jon M. Chu, and Clint Bentley, reviewed.
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‘Autumn Leaves’: Joan Crawford at the Peak of Her Powers
The 1956 melodrama was also something of a last hurrah for the star.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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The Unrelenting Grimness of ‘Frozen River’
Misty Upham and especially Melissa Leo are excellent in this frostbitten drama.
March 27, 2026
February 4, 2026
November 6, 2025
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
Peterson Reviews 