PETERSON REVIEWS
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You Feel Like You Could Watch ‘Unzipped’ Forever
On one of the great fashion documentaries.
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Pop Culture Road Trips of the Pacific Northwest
Our collection of summer road-trip ideas is inspired by fan-favorite shows, movies, and books influenced by or made in the Pacific Northwest.
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Short Takes: ‘Rye Lane,’ ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,’ and ‘Dungeons & Dragons’
A rom-com, a documentary, and a fantasy comedy.
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‘Absence of Malice’ is an Inert Journalism Drama
On the one hand the narrative is uninvolving; on the other Sally Field’s character is such a reckless reporter that you spend most of the movie mad that she hasn’t been fired.
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Paul Newman is ‘Nobody’s Fool’
The movie would not be nearly as moving without Newman’s performance at the front.
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The Unsentimental Journeys of ‘Return to Seoul’ and ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’
Two new movies steeped in chaos, country-hopping, and characters with a knack for leaving disaster in their wakes.
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‘Tokyo Fist’ Comes at You Fast
Shinya Tsukamoto’s boxing movie turns genre norms on their head.
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Jane Fonda Gives One of Her Best Performances in ‘Moving On’
‘Moving On’ doesn’t really know what to do with itself, but it does prove how difficult it is to put Fonda and Tomlin together in a movie and come up with a bad time.
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Paul Newman Gives One of His Best Performances in ‘The Verdict’
The intensity of ‘The Verdict’ reverberates even more because its quest for justice, if everything goes right, doubles as a type of salvation for its lawyer protagonist.
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The Great Show Accusations True at SZA’s Climate Pledge Concert
The singer-songwriter brought her inexhaustible confessionals to Seattle Thursday night.
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The Irreverent Charm of ‘Shaolin Soccer’
Its original blend of slapstick comedy, martial-arts thrills, and the underdog-centric sports movie immediately wins you over.
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Paul Newman is Woefully Miscast in ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’
Newman tries his best, but flounders, in a role better suited to the recently departed James Dean.
MARCH 2026
The Theme is ‘Acting’
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‘The Bad and the Beautiful’ is an Essential Hollywood Melodrama
Vincente Minnelli doesn’t mince anything here.
February 4, 2025
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October 27, 2025
Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
February 25, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
February 23, 2026
The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
February 16, 2026
Peterson Reviews 