PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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
