PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Clockers’ is a Deeply Felt Coming-of-Age Movie
It’s not as much the murder itself ‘Clockers’ is most preoccupied with; it’s the context in which it takes place that interests Lee.
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‘Triangle of Sadness’ is a Nauseously Funny Black Comedy
New movies from Ruben Östlund and Dario Argento.
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Though a Historical First, ‘Hellbent’ is Only So-So
‘Hellbent’ is often billed as the first gay slasher movie.
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‘Dead Presidents’ Works Well, to a Point
On The Hughes Brothers’ follow-up ‘Menace II Society.’
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The Camera as a Vampire in ‘Rapture’
Iván Zulueta’s tech horror movie — in which a camera turns into a deadly force — blazed a trail for tech horror classics like ‘Pulse’ and ‘Ringu.’
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Cate Blanchett Gives Her Best Performance Yet in ‘Tár’
Plus: Christian Tafdrup’s ‘Speak No Evil.’
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‘Walker’ is Alex Cox at His Best
‘Walker’ starts not at the beginning of its subject’s life but just before he started down the path to his doom.
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More Scary Movies to Watch in the Dark
What I’m watching to get in the Halloween spirit.
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Icons Remixed in ‘Blonde’ and ‘Moonage Daydream’
New movies about Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie only superficially examine their subjects.
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On ‘They Live’
In John Carpenter’s ‘They Live,’ a man finally starts seeing things for what they are.
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‘Across the 110th Street’ is a Bleak, Ambivalent Police Procedural
The film is a high-water mark for the 1970s procedural.
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Watching ‘The Princess Bride,’ on Its 35th Anniversary, with Cary Elwes
The English actor made an appearance at a special screening of the movie at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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In ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,’ It’s All in the Process
Revisiting Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary, which trains its gaze on the Troisgros family and its various culinary pursuits.
August 19, 2026
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
Strong, Stoic Types
Director-star Paul Newman’s 1971 treatment of Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’ perceptively observes the corrosiveness of toxic masculinity.
August 7, 2026
Working Girls
‘Broken Mirrors,’ Marleen Gorris’ 1984 follow-up to her still-transcendent feminist drama ‘A Question of Silence,’ expands on its predecessor’s themes while dramatically improving on its writer-director’s aesthetic command.
July 9, 2026
Found Connections
Donna Deitch’s ‘Desert Hearts’ was a breakthrough for lesbian representation in cinema. It also achieves another rarified thing: Characters who feel like they exist outside a screenplay’s bounds.
June 30, 2026
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