PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid’ is Like Catnip for Classic Hollywood Devotees
This 1982 parody film might be a little less entertaining for non-adherents, though.
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Seattle Couldn’t Quit Haim
For 425: The eminently lovable sister act stopped by Seattle’s WAMU Theater as part of its I Quit tour.
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‘House of Bamboo’’s Style Can Only Take It So Far
Samuel Fuller’s Tokyo-set noir is a visual treat, but it’s thwarted by a thoroughly unengaging lead performance.
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‘It’s Really Important to Us to Bring That Female Perspective’: Inside Emergence Films’ Mission to Support Women Filmmakers
For 425: Launched in 2016, and with a new philanthropic initiative announced this year, the Sienna Beckman- and Rachel Noll James-founded film company looks to give creative opportunities to women in a male-dominated field.
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Get Shorty
It doesn’t matter that Howard Hawks’ 1946 adaptation of ‘The Big Sleep’ doesn’t make any sense.
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Sleuthing is a Nightmare in ‘Angel Heart’
The creepy aesthetic of Alan Parker’s horror-inflected detective movie from 1987 is the strongest thing about it.
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Richard Roundtree is Electric in ‘Shaft’
Gordon Parks’ 1971 thriller, and Roundtree’s terrific work in it, paved the way for a new generation of Black action heroes.
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Mirror Images
‘Twinless’ and ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites,’ reviewed.
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‘Joint Security Area’ Emotionally Complicates the Whodunit
Park Chan-wook’s Korean Demilitarized Zone-set mystery is less interested in investigative twistiness than the surprisingly touching, then tragic, backstory behind its plot-driving murders.
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Misery Business
‘Splitsville’ and ‘Caught Stealing,’ reviewed.
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Candy Land
Jacques Rivette’s free-wheeling 1974 epic ‘Céline and Julie Go Boating’ is charmingly confounding.
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The Nasty, Brutish, and Short ‘Three on a Match’
This entertaining, bite-size soap is almost absurdly bleak.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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The Unrelenting Grimness of ‘Frozen River’
Misty Upham and especially Melissa Leo are excellent in this frostbitten drama.
March 27, 2026
February 4, 2026
November 6, 2025
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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