PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Broadcast News’ is a Great Romantic Comedy
Nothing exists in a simple binary in Albert L. Brooks’ dazzling 1987 comedy.
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A Miscast Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem Are the Least of ‘Being the Ricardos’’ Problems
Plus: ‘West Side Story.’
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‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ is an Exhilarating Biopic
You don’t finish ‘Mishima’ with a holistic sense of who this man was. That doesn’t seem to be what Schrader has in mind, anyway.
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‘C’mon C’mon’ is One of the Year’s Loveliest Movies
Plus: ‘Benedetta.’
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‘The Hours’ Washes Over You
Despite the specificities of its characters’ pain, ‘The Hours’ finds universalities with such resounding precision that you finish it still underneath its clouds.
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‘Mondays in the Sun’ Feels Stuck in a Lull, But That’s Part of the Point
The movie was among Spain’s most decorated films of 2002.
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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.
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘By Hook or By Crook’ is a Moving Ode to Friendship
Despite its low budget and the sometimes-amateurishness of its performances, it isn’t obvious that 2001’s ‘By Hook or By Crook’ was made by people who came into filmmaking practically on a whim.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 2026
Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
March 30, 2026
Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
March 11, 2026
Next Big Things
Gregory La Cava’s ‘Stage Door’ is often at once hysterically funny and brutally pragmatic about the personal toll a career in entertainment can take.
March 4, 2026
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