PETERSON REVIEWS
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I’m on Spring Break. Posts will resume on April 20.
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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.
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‘Summertime’ is an All-Time-Great Romantic Film
An American touching foreign land and getting “healed” in some way is a tired trope. But ‘Summertime’ energizes it.
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Short Takes: ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies,’ ‘Sharp Stick,’ and ‘Emily the Criminal’
A slasher movie, a sex comedy, and a crime thriller.
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‘On the Beach’: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
The end of the world looms over Stanley Kramer’s ‘On the Beach.’
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A Vacation from Hell in ‘A Perfect Getaway’
‘The Perfect Getaway’ isn’t perfect, but no vacations are.
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‘Cabin Fever’ Never Quite Comes Together
The one truly effective thing about ‘Cabin Fever’ is Scott Kevan’s cinematography.
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‘Bullet Train’ is a Wreck
But ‘Prey’ jolts the long-ailing ‘Predator’ franchise awake.
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Summer Fun at the Movies
Some movies that remind me of summer.
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 