PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Crooklyn’: A Family Portrait
The movie functions like an affectionately made collage.
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‘Down in the Delta’: A Moving Directing Debut from Maya Angelou
The movie might have come across a lot more mawkish if not in Angelou’s sincere hands.
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‘The Housemaid’: A Precursor to ‘Parasite’
Though it has no more valuable insight than a trifling, plot-driven soap opera.
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Michelle Pfeiffer’s Radiance Takes ‘Married to the Mob’ to the Next Level
‘Married to the Mob’ is too good-natured and well-performed to have many damaging gripes with.
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A Gumshoe’s Last Days in ‘The Late Show’
The movie focuses on a kind of private eye not often checked in on in detective fiction.
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‘Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion’ is an Electrifying Revenge Thriller
This movie has evidently been made by someone who had seen enough women-in-prison movies, enough revenge films, knew what both required/what drew people to them, and realized that you didn’t have to ascribe to their limitations if you knew they could be more.
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Soulmates
On ‘Girlfriends’ and ‘Old Boyfriends.’
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Alfre Woodard is Astounding in ‘Clemency’
‘Clemency’ is ultimately meant to be taken in as a pragmatic advocacy drama.
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New Normal
On ‘Pieces of a Woman,’ ‘Sound of Metal,’ and ‘Impetigore.’
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Deep Cuts
The last two installments of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology.
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Age of Excess
On ‘Wonder Woman 1984.’
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Kind of Blue
New movies from Steven Soderbergh, Thomas Vinterberg, and George C. Wolfe.
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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