PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Putney Swope’ is an Unfocused, But Still Frequently Sharp, Satire
‘Putney Swope’ chronically doodles.
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‘A Page of Madness’ is a Movie in a Dream State
‘A Page of Madness’ is disorienting from the outset.
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Secrets Revealed
On ‘Nobody,’ ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines,’ and ‘Stowaway.’
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‘Memories of Murder’ is an Exemplary Police Procedural
Writer-director Bong Joon-ho, doing masterful work in what was surprisingly only his second feature film, assiduously avoids offering a familiar “one bad apple” argument.
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‘The Long Good Friday’ is a Perfect Gloomy Mob Drama
Bob Hoskins, masterful, manages to make us care about a man who is for all intents and purposes ruthless and blackhearted.
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Flawed Victories
On ‘Love and Monsters’ and ‘Mortal Kombat.’
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Sentimental Journeys
On ‘The Great Race.’
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Robin Givens Sizzles in ‘A Rage in Harlem’
After a while I stopped watching ‘A Rage in Harlem’ looking for a thrill via the narrative and more for its handsome period atmosphere.
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‘…All the Marbles’: Robert Aldrich’s Fun Swan Song
It’s among his lightest, easiest-to-enjoy projects.
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Telling Stories
On ‘Bad Trip’ and ‘Night of the Kings.’
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‘The American Friend’ Works Over You Slowly
Wim Wenders adapts Patricia Highsmith.
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‘Sapphire’ Has Noble Intentions, But Still Feels Safe
For a brief period beginning in the late 1950s, English director Basil Dearden and his producing partner, Michael Relph, decided to focus their attention on several projects through which they could explore social issues often left underexamined in British cinema.
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
