PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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Bright Eyes — Older, Wiser, and with a New Album — Returns to the Stage
The rock trio, whose ‘comeback’ was thwarted by the pandemic, comes to Seattle in June.
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There Are Scary Movies. Then There’s ‘Threads’
‘Threads’ reinforces the truth that no spectacle-driven horror movie is ever as scary as war.
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‘eXistenZ’: Sins of the Flesh
‘eXistenZ’ is the closest Cronenberg has come to making a nifty, economic thriller meant above all to be escapist.
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‘Death Watch’ is an Inspired, Prescient Reality-TV Satire
Romy Schneider gives a mesmeric performance wavering from heartrendingly restrained to unselfconsciously exposed.
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Chaos and Crises in ‘On the Count of Three’ and ‘The Sadness’
A tightly wound black comedy and a boundary-pushing zombie movie, reviewed.
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Watching ‘Dagon’ is Like Living Through a Nightmare
‘Dagon’ is based on a novella by H.P. Lovecraft.
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Nilüfer Yanya’s Painlessly Great Rock Music
The English singer-songwriter, behind one of 2022’s best albums, stops by The Crocodile May 21.
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‘Innocents with Dirty Hands’ is Among Claude Chabrol’s Most Straightforwardly Entertaining Movies
In ‘Innocents with Dirty Hands,’ Chabrol’s uncharacteristically keyed-up thriller, few people say what they mean or are thinking what you think they are.
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The High Highs and Low Lows of ‘Anaïs in Love’ and ‘Sheryl’
A charming French comedy and a new music documentary, reviewed.
OCTOBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Thrills and Chills’
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The Surprising Sensitivity of ‘The Leopard Man’
This proto-slasher from 1943 takes pains to show that its victims are more than their fates.
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
