PETERSON REVIEWS
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I’m on Spring Break. Posts will resume on April 20.
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‘Dead Presidents’ Works Well, to a Point
On The Hughes Brothers’ follow-up ‘Menace II Society.’
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The Camera as a Vampire in ‘Rapture’
Iván Zulueta’s tech horror movie — in which a camera turns into a deadly force — blazed a trail for tech horror classics like ‘Pulse’ and ‘Ringu.’
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Cate Blanchett Gives Her Best Performance Yet in ‘Tár’
Plus: Christian Tafdrup’s ‘Speak No Evil.’
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‘Walker’ is Alex Cox at His Best
‘Walker’ starts not at the beginning of its subject’s life but just before he started down the path to his doom.
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More Scary Movies to Watch in the Dark
What I’m watching to get in the Halloween spirit.
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Icons Remixed in ‘Blonde’ and ‘Moonage Daydream’
New movies about Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie only superficially examine their subjects.
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On ‘They Live’
In John Carpenter’s ‘They Live,’ a man finally starts seeing things for what they are.
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‘Across the 110th Street’ is a Bleak, Ambivalent Police Procedural
The film is a high-water mark for the 1970s procedural.
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Watching ‘The Princess Bride,’ on Its 35th Anniversary, with Cary Elwes
The English actor made an appearance at a special screening of the movie at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater.
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Don’t Worry About Seeing ‘Don’t Worry Darling,’ Darling
Olivia Wilde’s much-gossiped-about sophomore feature is nowhere near a disaster, but it’s not good, either.
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‘Blue Collar”s Frankness Takes You Aback
‘Blue Collar’ doesn’t end on a hopeful note akin to the more widely seen, and still-good, mainstream unionization drama ‘Norma Rae,’ which came out the next year. It wades in, and stays put in, the hell of working a hard, badly paying job
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She’s Done It Again: On Grace Jones at the Moore Theatre
The legendary septuagenarian put on a characteristically singular show in Seattle on Wednesday.
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
Peterson Reviews 