PETERSON REVIEWS
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Afterwords
‘It Was Just an Accident’ and ‘Rebuilding,’ reviewed.
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‘An Autumn’s Tale’ is Perfectly Bittersweet
Mabel Cheung’s 1987 not-quite-romantic comedy celebrates love as a vessel for positive change.
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Short Takes: ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘Nouvelle Vague,’ ‘Wicked: For Good,’ and ‘Train Dreams’
For 425: New movies from Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Jon M. Chu, and Clint Bentley, reviewed.
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‘Autumn Leaves’: Joan Crawford at the Peak of Her Powers
The 1956 melodrama was also something of a last hurrah for the star.
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‘Peter Hujar’s Day’’s Deceptive Simplicity
Ira Sachs’ low-key, interview transcript-based two-hander is understatedly revealing.
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‘Charisma’ is Not Your Typical Eco-Thriller
But its otherworldly, cryptic chilliness is typical Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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Do the Right Thing
Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy-commencing ‘Where is the Friend’s House?’ empathetically sees the world through a particularly well-meaning child’s eyes.
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The Lonely Souls of ‘Die My Love’ and ‘Frankenstein’
For South Sound: New movies from Lynne Ramsay and Guillermo del Toro, reviewed.
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‘There’s No One Entry’: How the MoPOP’s Newest Exhibit is Exploring Hip-Hop History
For 425: The launch of the Museum of Pop Culture’s ‘Beats + Rhymes: A Collective Narrative of Hip-Hop’ exhibition coincides with the start of Hip-Hop History Month.
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‘Pieces of April’’s Lived-In Tension
Peter Hedges’ 2003 Thanksgiving-set family drama steers clear of sentimentality.
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Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Are Fantastic in ‘Bugonia’
Plus: Tessa Thompson gives one of the best performances of her career with the Ibsen-remixing ‘Hedda.’ (For 425)
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Odds & Ends: Halloween Edition
Notes from the last month.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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Jean Gillie is the Reason to See ‘Decoy’
Jack Bernhard’s 1946 noir never completely grabs you, but Gillie’s impressively vicious performance almost makes up for it.
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
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