PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Quiz Show’ Thoughtfully — and a Little Misleadingly — Revisits an Industry-Changing Scandal
Robert Redford’s fact-based drama looks at vintage game-show deception with some truth-smudging of its own.
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‘I Love Boosters’ is Thematically Resonant, Narratively Muddled Fun
Rapper-turned-filmmaker Boots Riley’s long-awaited feature-length follow-up to 2018’s ‘Sorry to Bother You’ is amiable but a little all over the place.
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Telehealth Wants You to Dance Through the Chaos
For South Sound: Recently signed to storied Seattle label Sub Pop Records, Telehealth released its sophomore album, ‘Green World Image,’ on May 15.
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SIFF Diary: 2026
What I saw at this year’s edition of the Seattle International Film Festival.
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Demi Lovato Knows How to Command a Room
For 425: The 33-year-old pop star sounded better than ever at her Climate Pledge Arena show this week.
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This Pioneering Auburn Funeral Home is the Subject of a New Documentary
For South Sound: ‘The Life We Leave’ is screening twice at the upcoming Seattle International Film Festival.
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‘Blue Heron’ is a Mosaic-Like Memory Movie
Sophy Romvari’s feature-length debut continues the affecting, understated personal excavations of her acclaimed short films.
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Loving and Hating ‘Soapdish’
The 1991 comedy is a delightful send-up of the soap-opera world. Then its ending comes.
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Reunions
‘Erupcja’ and ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2,’ reviewed.
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‘City on Fire’: More Than Just a ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Reference
Ringo Lam’s fifth movie of the 1980s winds up being far more serious than its Looney Tunes-inflected first couple of acts would lead you to believe.
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‘Enemy of the State’’s Prescient Thrills
In 2026, 1998’s ‘Enemy of the State’ feels glumly prophetic and surprisingly sound.
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The Body Horrors of ‘Mother Mary’ and ‘Agon’
For South Sound: New movies from David Lowery and Giulio Bertelli, reviewed.
OCTOBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Thrills and Chills’
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The Surprising Sensitivity of ‘The Leopard Man’
This proto-slasher from 1943 takes pains to show that its victims are more than their fates.
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
