PETERSON REVIEWS
space
-
‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Cuts Deep
The movie is a semi-autobiographical product of frustration for co-writer and director Robert Townsend.
-
‘His House’ Inventively Unites Supernatural and Real-World Horrors
On Remi Weekes’ excellent debut.
-
Something More
On ‘Kajillionaire’ and ‘Shithouse.’
-
‘The Brute’ is an Unusually Straightforward Melodrama from Luis Buñuel
This is a a tawdry melodrama, but it’s fun-tawdry.
-
‘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.
-
‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ is a Daring, Mostly Successful Documentary
‘Dick Johnson is Dead’ might make you appreciate life a little more.
-
Moving Forward, Looking Backward
Sofia Coppola’s latest and ‘Yes, God, Yes,’ Karen Maine’s smart and funny directing debut.
-
‘First Cow’ is a Tender Tale of Friendship
John Magaro’s and Orion Lee’s performances are perfectly poignant.
-
The Human Comedy
On ‘Real Life,’ ‘Modern Romance,’ and ‘Lost in America,’ three projects from writer-director-actor Albert Brooks.
-
‘Trapeze’: You Get What You Pay For
Akin to the circus, all one needs from ‘Trapeze’ is a good time.
-
‘Shampoo”s Sober Approach to the Sex Comedy
‘Shampoo’ is unaffected and immediate — unnervingly lifelike.
-
‘Santa Sangre’: A Slasher Movie, Jodorowsky Style
‘Santa Sangre’ is wonderfully perverse.
OCTOBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Thrills and Chills’
ASDFJHGSD
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
