PETERSON REVIEWS
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I’m on Spring Break. Posts will resume on April 20.
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‘The Last Movie Stars’ Makes You Fall in Love Again with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Plus: Psychological thriller ‘Resurrection’ is carried by yet another bravura Rebecca Hall performance.
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‘The Right Stuff’ Feels Earthbound Even When It’s Shooting Toward the Moon
‘The Right Stuff’ frequently feels like a marvel.
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‘Nope’ is a Thrilling, Thought-Provoking Horror Hybrid
Plus: Acclaimed new documentary ‘Fire of Love’ is a spectacular highlights reel.
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You Forget ‘UFOria’ as Soon As It’s Over
I’m sure, though, I’ll remember the joy I felt first seeing character-actor greats Harry Dean Stanton and Fred Ward not just in the same movie but seated at its front, for once not confined to the thankless background of a better movie.
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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.
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
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