PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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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.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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In ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,’ It’s All in the Process
Revisiting Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary, which trains its gaze on the Troisgros family and its various culinary pursuits.
August 19, 2026
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
Strong, Stoic Types
Director-star Paul Newman’s 1971 treatment of Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’ perceptively observes the corrosiveness of toxic masculinity.
August 7, 2026
Working Girls
‘Broken Mirrors,’ Marleen Gorris’ 1984 follow-up to her still-transcendent feminist drama ‘A Question of Silence,’ expands on its predecessor’s themes while dramatically improving on its writer-director’s aesthetic command.
July 9, 2026
Found Connections
Donna Deitch’s ‘Desert Hearts’ was a breakthrough for lesbian representation in cinema. It also achieves another rarified thing: Characters who feel like they exist outside a screenplay’s bounds.
June 30, 2026
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