PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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The Midlife Crises of ‘Husbands’
The highest compliment I can give ‘Husbands’ is that I didn’t notice any false notes in it.
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Cold Sweat: Two by Samuel Fuller
On ‘Pickup on South Street’ and ‘The Crimson Kimono.’
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‘Devil in a Blue Dress’ Should Have Kicked Off a Franchise
‘Devil in a Blue Dress’ remains the only Easy Rawlins film adaptation to date.
NOVEMBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Sibling Bonds’
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‘Twins of Evil’ is Sharper Than You’d Think
Though mostly made to capitalize on the newly minted sex symboldom of identical-twin sisters Mary and Madeleine Collinson, this 1971 horror movie ends up being a decent critique of puritanical hypocrisy.
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
