PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Norma Rae’ Still Invigorates
‘Norma Rae’ isn’t electrifying by force. Instead, just by carefully dramatizing the process of unionization, it captures the simple thrills of workplace organization — the pleasurable charge felt when you realize it’s possible to have a say in an arena where you never thought you’d have one.
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‘Barbarian’ is One of the Year’s Best Horror Movies
Plus: ‘Hold Me Tight’ is an inconsistent meditation on grief.
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‘Chameleon Street’ Still Feels a Step Ahead
Faking it till you make it is rarely as literal as it is in ‘Chameleon Street.’
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‘Strike!’ Keeps Things on the Surface
‘Strike!’ is slight but pleasant, redeemed by a charming cast and a writer-director, Sarah Kernochan, whose fondness for her characters and subject matter is infectiously clear.
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High Hopes and Uncertain Futures in ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.’ and ‘Funny Pages’
Reviewing a new satire and a coming-of-age comedy.
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‘Brubaker’ is Admirable But Thin
‘Brubaker’ comes to epitomize what beleaguers so many so-called message movies: elucidating the macro issue of the hour with such hyperfixation that anything on the micro remains decorative.
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The Rise of Enumclaw
The Tacoma-based four-piece, whose debut album arrives in October, is among the most buzzed-about bands to emerge from the South Sound in years.
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The Helter-Skelter Brilliance of ‘Bone’
In typical fashion for writer-director Larry Cohen, ‘Bone’ is as prone to incisiveness as feeling like it’s going to fly off the rails and fall apart.
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Strange New Worlds in ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ and ‘Spin Me Round’
George Miller’s first movie since ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and Jeff Baena’s latest comedy trifle, reviewed.
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A Young Woman Adrift
Sandrine Bonnaire is extraordinary in Agnès Varda’s masterful ‘Vagabond.’
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Misery Loves Company: On Phoebe Bridgers at Marymoor
The 28-year-old singer-songwriter is playing two sold-out dates at the Redmond venue this week.
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‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is a Disaster-Movie Turducken
‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is among the cruelest of disaster movies.
MARCH 2026
The Theme is ‘Acting’
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‘Notting Hill’: A Star-Crossed Romance
Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant do wonders to soften — but not completely distract from — the contrivances of Roger Michell’s romantic comedy.
February 4, 2025
November 6, 2025
October 27, 2025
Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
February 25, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
February 23, 2026
The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
February 16, 2026
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