PETERSON REVIEWS
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Something’s Missing from ‘The Drama’
For 425: Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy is enjoyably prickly and queasily funny, but it’s surprisingly hesitant about fully engaging with its off-kilter premise.
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Different Angles
‘Steal This Story, Please!’ and ‘Palestine 36,’ reviewed.
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The Paranoid Corporate Games of ‘Black Test Car’
The pitilessness of Yasuzo Masumura’s black comedy continues to ring true more than six decades after its release.
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Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
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Could the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas Become Filmmaking Hotspots?
For South Sound: Patrick Sheehan, founder of the new Peninsula Film Commission, thinks so.
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In ‘Jane,’ An Actress Stumbles Toward Greatness
On D.A. Pennebaker’s 1962 portrait of a young Jane Fonda.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Aims to Please
For South Sound: Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s space-set adventure wants to be an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser — sometimes to its detriment.
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Catherine O’Hara Was at the Top of Her Game in ‘For Your Consideration’
Christopher Guest’s 2006 comedy is far less laugh-heavy than his previous movies, but the performances — particularly the late O’Hara’s — more than make up for it.
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‘The Girls’’ Feminist Frustrations
Notes on Mai Zetterling’s 1968 dark comedy.
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‘Undertone’: Horror for the Filmed-Podcast Era
Plus: ‘Young Mothers’ is a typically unvarnished, compassionate movie from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. (For 425)
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Vincent Price Makes ‘Theatre of Blood’ Seem Better Than It Is
The horror icon’s performance makes you go a lot easier on a movie that’s much less sharp and suspenseful than it ought to be.
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Everything Everywhere
William Greaves’ ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One’ is almost 60 years old and still feels ahead of the curve.
NOVEMBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Sibling Bonds’
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‘Visible Secret’ is a Low-Key, Surprisingly Spooky Romantic Comedy
Ann Hui’s 2001 movie posits what a rom-com might look like with a ‘Sixth Sense’-esque underlay.
October 16, 2026
August 19, 2026
May 25, 2026
Smoke and Mirrors
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s inventive documentary isn’t just about the disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.
October 19, 2026
Ghost World
Kaneto Shindō’s ‘Kuroneko’ is still forward-looking in its contempt for patriarchal devastation.
October 15, 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
