PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘The Brute’ is an Unusually Straightforward Melodrama from Luis Buñuel
This is a a tawdry melodrama, but it’s fun-tawdry.
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‘Atlantics’ is a Mesmerizing Debut from Mati Diop
It will likely not take many more movies for Diop to be included in the pantheon of great filmmakers.
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‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ is a Daring, Mostly Successful Documentary
‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ might make you appreciate life a little more.
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Moving Forward, Looking Backward
Sofia Coppola’s latest and ‘Yes, God, Yes,’ Karen Maine’s smart and funny directing debut.
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‘First Cow’ is a Tender Tale of Friendship
John Magaro’s and Orion Lee’s performances are perfectly poignant.
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The Human Comedy
On ‘Real Life,’ ‘Modern Romance,’ and ‘Lost in America,’ three projects from writer-director-actor Albert Brooks.
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‘Trapeze’: You Get What You Pay For
Akin to the circus, all one needs from ‘Trapeze’ is a good time.
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‘Shampoo”s Sober Approach to the Sex Comedy
‘Shampoo’ is unaffected and immediate — unnervingly lifelike.
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‘Santa Sangre’: A Slasher Movie, Jodorowsky Style
‘Santa Sangre’ is wonderfully perverse.
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‘M’ is Fritz Lang at His Most Assured
Lang has said he made ‘M’ with mostly uncomplicated intentions — that he simply wanted to dissuade parental neglect. But, in hindsight, the movie is clear creative evidence of a man disillusioned.
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Houses in Motion
On ‘Relic’ and ‘Swallow,’ two horror releases you might have missed this year.
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‘From Beyond’: Not Quite as Good as ‘Re-Animator’
But even if ‘From Beyond’ doesn’t really work, it’s hard to outrightly dislike.
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 