PETERSON REVIEWS
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The Helter-Skelter Brilliance of ‘Bone’
In typical fashion for writer-director Larry Cohen, ‘Bone’ is as prone to incisiveness as feeling like it’s going to fly off the rails and fall apart.
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Strange New Worlds in ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ and ‘Spin Me Round’
George Miller’s first movie since ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and Jeff Baena’s latest comedy trifle, reviewed.
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A Young Woman Adrift
Sandrine Bonnaire is extraordinary in Agnès Varda’s masterful ‘Vagabond.’
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Misery Loves Company: On Phoebe Bridgers at Marymoor
The 28-year-old singer-songwriter is playing two sold-out dates at the Redmond venue this week.
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‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is a Disaster-Movie Turducken
‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is among the cruelest of disaster movies.
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‘Summertime’ is an All-Time-Great Romantic Film
An American touching foreign land and getting “healed” in some way is a tired trope. But ‘Summertime’ energizes it.
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Short Takes: ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies,’ ‘Sharp Stick,’ and ‘Emily the Criminal’
A slasher movie, a sex comedy, and a crime thriller.
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‘On the Beach’: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
The end of the world looms over Stanley Kramer’s ‘On the Beach.’
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A Vacation from Hell in ‘A Perfect Getaway’
‘The Perfect Getaway’ isn’t perfect, but no vacations are.
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‘Cabin Fever’ Never Quite Comes Together
The one truly effective thing about ‘Cabin Fever’ is Scott Kevan’s cinematography.
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‘Bullet Train’ is a Wreck
But ‘Prey’ jolts the long-ailing ‘Predator’ franchise awake.
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Summer Fun at the Movies
Some movies that remind me of summer.
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
