PETERSON REVIEWS
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Duplicities
On ‘Zola’ and ‘False Positive.’
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Lovefool
On ‘The Heartbreak Kid.’
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‘The Bride Wore Black’: Sweet Revenge
In which Jeanne Moreau becomes an angel of death.
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Death Proof
On ‘F9’ and ‘Siberia.’
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Tokyo Drifters
Two Seijun Suzuki movies — ‘Youth of the Beast’ and ‘Gate of Flesh’ — starring Joe Shishido.
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Fairy Tales
On ‘The Company of Wolves’ and ‘Lemora.’
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The Fragmentations of ‘Je T’aime, Je T’aime’
Alain Resnais tries out sci-fi.
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‘Slow Machine’ is the Right Amount of Enigmatic
Joe DeNardo and Paul Felte’s feature debut is stubbornly mysterious. But it doesn’t alienate you.
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Hiders & Seekers
On ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ and ‘A Quiet Place Part II.’
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‘La Main du Diable’ is a Nightmare
‘La Main du Diable’ was made during an especially dark moment in France’s history.
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Curses
On ‘Army of the Dead,’ ‘The Dry,’ and ‘Undine.’
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‘Massacre Gun’ is a By-the-Book Yakuza Thriller
But it’s steadily generous to the senses.
OCTOBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Thrills and Chills’
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Sin and Vice
On ‘The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh,’ ‘Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key,’ and ‘All the Colors of the Dark,’ an informal trilogy from Sergio Martino starring Edwige Fenech.
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
