PETERSON REVIEWS
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Love Games
On ‘Love & Basketball’ and ‘Disappearing Acts’
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From Ezell’s to the Movies: Jeremy and Nathan Rudd’s Hollywood Dreams
The identical twins were born into a family of fast-food giants. Now, they’re forging their own path in film.
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‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ and ‘Your Place or Mine’ Struggle to Find a Rhythm
A sequel and a rom-com.
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More Movies to Fall in Love with This February
Last February, I recommended some underappreciated movies worth checking out to ring in the year’s most romantic month for 425. Here are a few more.
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Short Takes: ‘Knock at the Cabin,’ ‘Pamela, A Love Story,’ and ’80 for Brady’
M. Night Shyamalan returns, a misunderstood icon sets the record straight, and veteran actresses inspire laughs in Tom Brady propaganda.
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‘Nappily Ever After’ is a Rocky, But Intermittently Touching, Empowerment Tale
Sanaa Lathan elevates material susceptible to limiting tropes and thorny conclusions.
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Virginie Efira is Wonderful in ‘In Bed with Victoria’
‘In Bed with Victoria’ is a movie where the character that gives it its reason for being is better than the film itself.
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The Truths and Distortions of ‘Like Someone in Love’
This great 2012 drama was the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s second movie made outside his native country and the last he saw released in his lifetime.
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‘Les Girls’ Does Both Too Much and Not Enough
This musical, historically significant for being Kelly’s last under an MGM contract originally ratified in 1942, feels less like a victory lap for the storied dancer-actor than a winded last few steps toward the finish line.
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‘Infinity Pool,’ Reviewed: An Interesting Premise, a Fun Mia Goth Performance, and Not a Lot Else
Plus: ‘To Leslie.’
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Forbidden Love and Old Scandals in ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’
The movie’s genuine warmth toward its characters and the stories it tells makes up for most, though hardly all, of its flaws.
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How Sheryl Lee Remembers ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me’
The actress made an appearance at a special screening of David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece over the weekend at Olympia’s Capitol Theater.
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 