PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘A Stolen Life’ is a Fun Good-Twin-Bad-Twin Melodrama
Evil twins: you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them.
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‘Dual’: A Flat, Opaque Dark Comedy with an Intriguing Premise
Writer-director Stearns doesn’t quite pull everything off.
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‘Thunderheart’ is a Forceful Police Drama
‘Thunderheart’ is initially positioned as a noirish mystery. But as it unravels its attention shifts.
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Secrets, Lies, and Love Triangles in ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ and ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’
On the new Claire Denis movie and a book adaptation.
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‘Peppermint Frappé’ Makes You Long for ‘Vertigo’
‘Peppermint Frappé’ is unsurprisingly not as good as its spiritual predecessor — any movie taking after Hitchcock’s masterpiece is foredoomed — but it isn’t by any means a shoddy-quality knockoff.
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‘Tremors II: Aftershocks’ is a Better-Than-Average Direct-to-Video Sequel — Which Isn’t Saying Much
Beyond not being irredeemably terrible, ‘Tremors 2’ doesn’t have too much to distinguish itself from its lots-of-fun predecessor.
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Mapache’s Sunlit Sounds
The California folk-rock duo comes to Seattle next week.
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Fumbles the Hammer
And ‘The Princess,’ now on Hulu, offers dynamic action sequences and little else.
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Kathleen Turner is a Knockout in ‘Crimes of Passion’
And so is Anthony Perkins.
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‘Official Competition’ is a Mischievous Backstage Comedy
Plus: ‘Montana Story,’ now available to stream, is a sensitive, engaging family drama.
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Teena Thach Knows a Place
The Tacoma-born influencer uses her popular TikTok account to shine a light on Washington’s best — and often overlooked — BIPOC-owned eateries.
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‘Miami Blues’ is a Cockeyed Procedural
Adapting George Willeford’s 1984 novel, writer-director George Armitage doesn’t lacquer this material over with the commonly romanticized gloss of a crime procedural.
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
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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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