PETERSON REVIEWS
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Traveling Man
On ‘Roadrunner’ and ‘Pig.’
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‘The Stranger’ is a Family-Reunion Drama with the Lift of a Thriller
‘The Stranger’’s subversiveness, unexpectedly, lies in its optimism — its unspoken plea for open-heartedness.
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‘Choose Me’ is Classed-Up Soap Opera
‘Choose Me’ is made up almost entirely of romantic entanglements.
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Ghosts
On ‘The Trial’ and ‘The Immortal Story.’
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‘Nightmare Alley’ is a Creepy Rise-and-Fall Story
The movie is so rousingly cynical, the possibility of instantaneous death comes off as sort of merciful.
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Slow Deaths
On ‘Black Widow,’ ‘Fear Street Part 1: 1994,’ and ‘No Sudden Move.’
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‘The Lovers’: The Vagaries of Love
‘The Lovers’ was as much of a headache as it was a pick-me-up for its director, Louis Malle, and its star, Jeanne Moreau.
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‘Merrily We Go to Hell”s Downward Spiral
True to its title, ‘Merrily We Go to Hell’ is a movie in which heavenly goodness is in short supply.
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‘Mr. Klein’ is Joseph Losey At His Best
On Losey’s chilling 1976 thriller.
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‘Summer of Soul’ is a Cause for Celebraton
You head home from ‘Summer of Soul’ clinging to any residual bliss.
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Duplicities
On ‘Zola’ and ‘False Positive.’
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Lovefool
On ‘The Heartbreak Kid.’
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘Edge of Seventeen’: A Wonderful Coming-of-Age Movie with Few False Notes
Even when the narrative of the film itself isn’t always, it’s a joy to watch a gay coming-of-age movie that neither sugarcoats things nor emphasizes hardship.
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
Peterson Reviews 