PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Fletch’ is a Breezy Detective Romp
‘Fletch’ goes by with the odd sense that there is almost nothing to really be worried about, because this preternaturally assured journalist is going to figure it all out.
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‘Get Back’ Casts The Beatles’ Final Days in a New Light
I’d watch the remaining 52 hours of footage if I could.
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‘The Power of the Dog’ is Another Triumph for Jane Campion
The film carries on the director’s long-standing inclination toward the literary.
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‘The 24-Hour Woman’ Can Be Scattered, But It Can Be Incisive, Too
‘The 24-Hour Woman’’s feelings of disarray reach their peak near its end, when we get a finale so extravagantly illogical that I thought for sure I’d only endure a few more minutes of it before an “it was all just a dream” reveal.
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‘The Bad and the Beautiful’ is an Essential Hollywood Melodrama
Vincente Minnelli doesn’t mince anything here.
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Dreams Deferred in ‘Riding in Cars with Boys’
Penny Marshall’s biopic about the writer Beverly Donofrio practically shakes with compassion.
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‘The Day of the Locust’ is Almost Too Bleak
John Schlesinger’s ‘The Day of the Locust’ says what movies about Hollywood love to say almost as much as they do that ‘making movies is magical’: that this city is much more a town defined by shattered success and cynical commodification than it is a beautiful place where dreams have an unusual ability to come true.
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Muffled Screaming
On ‘The Souvenir: Part II’ and ‘Passing.’
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‘It Could Happen to You’ is So Lightweight, It Could Float Away
You watch it the same way you’d read a feel-good story in a small-town newspaper.
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Too High
On ‘The Stunt Man.’
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Horror Movies
On ‘Bergman Island’ and ‘Spencer.’
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The Profound Grief of ‘Fearless’
‘Fearless’ is one of the finest of all movies about grief I’ve seen.
MARCH 2026
The Theme is ‘Acting’
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‘Notting Hill’: A Star-Crossed Romance
Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant do wonders to soften — but not completely distract from — the contrivances of Roger Michell’s romantic comedy.
February 4, 2025
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October 27, 2025
Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
February 25, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
February 23, 2026
The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
February 16, 2026
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