PETERSON REVIEWS
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Halsey Brings Their Best Album Yet to Auburn
The pop star stopped by the White River Amphitheater last night.
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Good Times with Haim at WAMU Theater
A dispatch from the sister band’s Seattle show.
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‘Charley Varrick’ is an Expertly Constructed Thriller
One of its many wonders is how it moves to and from the several characters involved in this cat-and-mouse chase without losing any of its high-stress momentum.
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The Boundless Thrills of ‘Neptune Frost’ and ‘RRR’
An electric Afrofuturist musical and the Tollywood hit everyone is talking about.
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‘I Can’t Sleep’ Isn’t Your Average Serial-Killer Thriller
You wouldn’t expect anything less from Claire Denis.
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‘Hopscotch’ is a Laid-Back Caper
It feels wrong calling a spy or chase movie “laid back,” but I can’t think of a better way to describe ‘Hopscotch,’ which could be classified under both subgenres.
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Bodies in Trouble in ‘Crimes of the Future’ and ‘Watcher’
David Cronenberg’s long-awaited return and a thoughtful woman-in-peril thriller.
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‘Six Degrees of Separation’ Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Stockard Channing, though, is phenomenal.
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Outranks the Original
And ‘Pleasure’ is a fascinating look at an underexplored industry.
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‘Saving Face’: Family Values
This is a great movie about a testy mother-daughter bond.
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‘Men’ is Terrible
And ‘Lux Æterna’ electrifies.
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The Love Games of ‘César and Rosalie’
The movie is so likable and spiritedly acted that its flaws are only incidental in our overall enjoyment of it.
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 