PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Scream 6’ is a Cut Above ‘5’
Plus: ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,’ one of 2022’s best movies, is finally available to rent.
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‘Bend It Like Beckham’ Earns Its Clichés
Gurinder Chadha never offers any surprises in this comedy about a young Indian woman who dreams of professional soccer playing, but it’s so warm and spirited that it doesn’t matter.
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‘The Longest Yard’ Understands Burt Reynolds’ Appeal
‘The Longest Yard’ is best enjoyed for the way it complements the platonic ideal of a star persona whose at-one-time refreshing irreverence would only retain its freshness a little while longer.
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Kelye Kneeland’s Bold Type
A Bellevue teacher moonlights as one of the area’s most inventive portraitists. Her medium of choice? Typewriters.
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‘Slap Shot’: A Sports Comedy Where Violence is the Answer
Newman’s 1977 star vehicle is one of the most palpably angry sports movies I’ve seen.
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‘One Fine Morning’ is a Poignant Drama About a Life at a Crossroads
‘One Fine Morning’ looks for the profound in the ordinary; Hansen-Løve and Seydoux make the search feel more than worthwhile.
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‘Love Letters” Bad Romance
The movie, featuring one of Jamie Lee Curtis’ best performances, is like a yellow-paged romance potboiler with the emotional dishonesty taken out.
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The White Lines and White Lies of ‘Cocaine Bear’ and ‘Huesera: The Bone Woman’
Elizabeth Banks’ silly new creature feature and an auspicious horror debut, reviewed.
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The Painful Triumphs of ‘A Woman Like Eve’
This frank, ahead-of-its-time marriage drama trains its focus on a housewife who leaves her dominating husband for another woman.
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‘Alien vs. Predator’ is About as Good as It Could Be
That this movie cursed with simultaneously reviving two flagging franchises is perfunctory fun is kind of a triumph.
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In ‘Sharper’ and ‘The Outwaters,’ Things Are Not Quite What They Seem
A con-game thriller and a found-footage horror movie, reviewed.
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Though Minor in Stature, ‘A Very Natural Thing’ Feels Major
‘A Very Natural Thing”s quality is near equal to its importance.
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
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