PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘I’m Your Woman’: A Nice Change of Pace
‘I’m Your Woman’ is a response to a hypothetical I’m sure has crossed many a viewer’s minds watching certain crime dramas. What would this movie look like if it unfolded from the point of view of its woman lead?
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‘The Touch’: An Affair to Remember
Before ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ came ‘The Touch.’
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‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’: Bad Santa
Underrepresented in the typically cheery holiday-movie subgenre is the person for whom the season is legitimately nightmarish. ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ has a character who more than makes up for their representational absence.
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‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ Finds Jim Cummings Doing More of the Same
What is it with Cummings’ affinity for the small-town cop in the middle of a personal crisis?
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Celebration
On ‘Mr. Soul’ and ‘Zappa.’
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‘Freaky”s Bonkers Premise Works Against the Odds
‘Freaky’’s frankly insane conceit works mostly because of Vaughn and Newton, equally fervent in making sure there isn’t a stuntishness to their acting.
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It’s Easy to Imagine ‘Little Murders’ Worked Better on the Stage
The second half of the movie isn’t as lopsidedly appealing as its first.
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The Thrilling Unpredictability of ‘Black Bear’
It’s fun to see how things unravel — and how they’ll deviate from our immediate expectations.
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More Money, More Problems
On ‘Possessor’ and ‘The Nest.’
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‘Happiest Season’ Asks You to Overlook a Lot
Still, it worked over me — mostly.
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Cuts Deep
On ‘Mangrove,’ ‘Lovers Rock,’ and ‘Red, White, and Blue,’ the first three parts of Steve McQueen’s new Small Axe anthology series
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‘Mank’ Might Be David Fincher’s Most Meticulous Movie Yet
Even though Mank is dramatically lacking, it’s a movie I liked living inside.
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
Peterson Reviews 