PETERSON REVIEWS
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I’m on Spring Break. Posts will resume on April 20.
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‘Times Square’ is a Confused Coming-of-Age Drama
This 1980 cult drama is all promise and no effective follow-through. Read the review.
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‘Smoke Signals’ is a Stirring, Spirited Road Movie
Historical significance aside, Chris Eyres’ drama is in any case a soulful and often wise movie.
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‘The Fabelmans’ is One of the Year’s Best Movies
‘The Fabelmans’ is, among other things, a sublime love letter to the joys of filmmaking.
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The 1975 Brought Its Very Best to Seattle
The English rock outfit stopped by Seattle’s WAMU Theater Friday night with a boisterous, thoughtful performance.
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Long Journeys and Bloody Appetites in ‘Glass Onion’ and ‘Bones and All’
‘Knives Out’ gets a sequel, and Luca Guadagnino tells a cannibal love story.
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The Slow-Burning Dread of ‘Affliction’
‘Affliction’ is a frightening drama about the ripple effects of abuse.
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‘She Said’ is a By-the-Numbers, But Mostly Effective, Journalism Drama
Plus: ‘The Menu’ has no bite.
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‘In the Bedroom’ is a Powerful Meditation on Grief
On actor turned director Todd Field’s first effort as a filmmaker.
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‘Crimes of the Heart’ is a Sometimes Fun Acting Showcase and That’s About It
It’s a pleasure to watch Jessica Lange, Diane Keaton, and Sissy Spacek simulate sisterhood, but everything else about ‘Crimes of the Heart’ is at best thin and at worst offensive.
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American Horror Stories in ‘Armageddon Time’ and ‘The Good Nurse’
New movies from James Gray and Tobias Lindholm.
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Elizabeth Taylor is Great in the Impenetrable ‘Identikit’
This 1974 vehicle is often classified as so bad it’s good, but like most of the oddities Taylor made in the late-1960s and early ’70s, ‘Identikit’ is way too interesting to be so easily discarded.
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Guests from Hell in ‘Death Game’
Peter S. Traynor’s helter-skelter black comedy turns the home-invasion thriller on its head.
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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