PETERSON REVIEWS
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Don’t Fence Amyl and the Sniffers In
The acclaimed Australian punk quartet comes to Seattle in May.
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Failed Ambitions and Thwarted Desires in ‘Paris, 13th District’ and ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’
Neither movie successfully achieves what it’s trying to accomplish.
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Time is Having All the Fun in ‘The Hourglass Sanatorium’
It moves over there when you want it to go here; relentlessly zigging and zagging, it plays by rules so cryptic that after a while you have to settle into the fact that linearity is only bent and swirled around here.
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‘Lucky’ is a Moving (Almost) Swan Song for Harry Dean Stanton
‘Lucky’ marks only the second time its 90-year-old star, prolific character actor Stanton, ever stood at the forefront of a movie.
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Short Takes: ‘The Northman,’ ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth,’ ‘Petite Maman,’ and ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’
Four new movies.
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‘Shutter’ Makes Up for Its Lack of Originality with Clever Chills
This final twist in the story finds ‘Shutter’ at its best.
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You Love Looking at ‘One from the Heart’ and Not Much Else
Francis Ford Coppola’s follow-up to ‘Apocalypse Now’ is one of the best-looking not-so-good movies I’ve ever seen.
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Playing Dress-Up with ‘Aline’ and ‘All the Old Knives’
Céline Dion cosplay and duplicitous spy games, reviewed.
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‘Jigoku’: From Hell
‘Jigoku’ is an hour-and-40-minute-long movie that could do without the first hour.
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Hatchie is Making the Best Music of Her Career
The Australian shoegaze artist, whose excellent sophomore album is out next week, comes to Neumos in May.
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The (Mostly) Divine Excesses of ‘Ambulance’
Plus: Catch ‘Memoria’ while you still can.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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In ‘Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,’ It’s All in the Process
Revisiting Frederick Wiseman’s 44th documentary, which trains its gaze on the Troisgros family and its various culinary pursuits.
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
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