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.
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
