PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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A Touching, Tentative Midlife Romance in ‘Starting Over’
Burt Reynolds, sans mustache, gives one of his best performances in Alan J. Pakula’s tender dramedy.
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‘Skinamarink’ Makes You Feel Like a Little Kid Again
‘Skinamarink’ taps into a child’s fear of the dark — and the monsters maybe lurking with it — with chilling clarity.
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Gene Kelly and Judy Garland Are Off the Charts in ‘The Pirate’
Vincente Minnelli’s ‘The Pirate’ is one of the oddest movies to come out of MGM’s musical golden era; it’s also among the most fun and boundary-pushingly playful.
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
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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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