PETERSON REVIEWS
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Crashing and Burning in ‘Showing Up’ and ‘Fast X’
New Kelly Reichardt and ‘Fast and Furious’ nonsense.
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‘The Money Pit’ Digs Itself Into a Hole
‘The Money Pit’ pretty much has just one joke.
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The Quiet Rage of ‘The Best of Everything’
Whatever its shortcomings are, the seriousness with which ‘The Best of Everything’ takes the struggles of young women is remarkable for its era.
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Short Takes: SIFF Edition
On ‘Year of the Fox,’ ‘My Animal,’ and ‘Love to Love You, Donna Summer.’
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Goldie Hawn Gives One of Her Funniest Performances in ‘Housesitter’
She and Steve Martin are so good that it doesn’t bother you much how preposterous the movie is.
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Too Much Too Soon in ‘Bright Lights, Big City’
Like the best-selling book on which it’s based, the movie is smart and efficient — has a certain elegance to it — without ever going anywhere particularly interesting.
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‘Swing Shift’: A Good Movie That Could Have Been Great
Rumor has it that Jonathan Demme’s WWII soap opera had been a masterpiece before his final cut was tampered with by Hawn and her producing partner.
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‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ is a Winning Coming-of-Age Movie
Plus: ‘Clock’ is intriguing, but ultimately ineffective, pregnancy horror.
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The Still-Raw Pain of ‘McQueen’
Released less than a decade after the tragic death of its subject, the Scottish fashion designer Alexander McQueen, ‘McQueen’ is a documentary whose overhanging sadness has the consistency of paint that hasn’t yet dried.
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SIFF’s Artistic Director on What to Expect from This Year’s Festival
The iconic Seattle International Film Festival returns next month.
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‘Evil Dead Rise’ is a Relentlessly Good Scare
This bracing new sequel forsakes the original trilogy’s sense of humor for more straightforward frights.
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Diana Ross, Stranded, in ‘Mahogany’
She’s the only good thing about this dour, overly cynical fashion melodrama.
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
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