PETERSON REVIEWS
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The Unsentimental Journeys of ‘Return to Seoul’ and ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’
Two new movies steeped in chaos, country-hopping, and characters with a knack for leaving disaster in their wakes.
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‘Tokyo Fist’ Comes at You Fast
Shinya Tsukamoto’s boxing movie turns genre norms on their head.
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Jane Fonda Gives One of Her Best Performances in ‘Moving On’
‘Moving On’ doesn’t really know what to do with itself, but it does prove how difficult it is to put Fonda and Tomlin together in a movie and come up with a bad time.
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Paul Newman Gives One of His Best Performances in ‘The Verdict’
The intensity of ‘The Verdict’ reverberates even more because its quest for justice, if everything goes right, doubles as a type of salvation for its lawyer protagonist.
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The Great Show Accusations True at SZA’s Climate Pledge Concert
The singer-songwriter brought her inexhaustible confessionals to Seattle Thursday night.
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The Irreverent Charm of ‘Shaolin Soccer’
Its original blend of slapstick comedy, martial-arts thrills, and the underdog-centric sports movie immediately wins you over.
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Paul Newman is Woefully Miscast in ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’
Newman tries his best, but flounders, in a role better suited to the recently departed James Dean.
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‘Scream 6’ is a Cut Above ‘5’
Plus: ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,’ one of 2022’s best movies, is finally available to rent.
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‘Bend It Like Beckham’ Earns Its Clichés
Gurinder Chadha never offers any surprises in this comedy about a young Indian woman who dreams of professional soccer playing, but it’s so warm and spirited that it doesn’t matter.
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‘The Longest Yard’ Understands Burt Reynolds’ Appeal
‘The Longest Yard’ is best enjoyed for the way it complements the platonic ideal of a star persona whose at-one-time refreshing irreverence would only retain its freshness a little while longer.
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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.
NOVEMBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Sibling Bonds’
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‘Visible Secret’ is a Low-Key, Surprisingly Spooky Romantic Comedy
Ann Hui’s 2001 movie posits what a rom-com might look like with a ‘Sixth Sense’-esque underlay.
October 16, 2026
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May 25, 2026
Smoke and Mirrors
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s inventive documentary isn’t just about the disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.
October 19, 2026
Ghost World
Kaneto Shindō’s ‘Kuroneko’ is still forward-looking in its contempt for patriarchal devastation.
October 15, 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
