PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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Don’t Worry About Seeing ‘Don’t Worry Darling,’ Darling
Olivia Wilde’s much-gossiped-about sophomore feature is nowhere near a disaster, but it’s not good, either.
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‘Blue Collar”s Frankness Takes You Aback
‘Blue Collar’ doesn’t end on a hopeful note akin to the more widely seen, and still-good, mainstream unionization drama ‘Norma Rae,’ which came out the next year. It wades in, and stays put in, the hell of working a hard, badly paying job
NOVEMBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Sibling Bonds’
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‘Twins of Evil’ is Sharper Than You’d Think
Though mostly made to capitalize on the newly minted sex symboldom of identical-twin sisters Mary and Madeleine Collinson, this 1971 horror movie ends up being a decent critique of puritanical hypocrisy.
October 16, 2026
August 19, 2026
May 25, 2026
Smoke and Mirrors
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s inventive documentary isn’t just about the disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.
October 19, 2026
Ghost World
Kaneto Shindō’s ‘Kuroneko’ is still forward-looking in its contempt for patriarchal devastation.
October 15, 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
