PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Working Girl’ Has a Bad Aftertaste
With its sitcom-esque inflections, it becomes a cockeyed horror movie.
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‘Mars Attacks’: More Fun to Talk About Than Watch
It’s Tim Burton doing an expensive, star-studded tribute to the schlocky, shoestring-budgeted sci-fi thrillers of the 1950s.
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‘My Name is Julia Ross’ Packs a Punch
‘My Name is Julia Ross’ is a multidimensional movie title.
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‘Internal Affairs’ Becomes a Total Blur
‘Internal Affairs’ at first appears poised to be a refreshing anomaly in the cop-thriller genre — a movie just as much interested in offering pulpy fun as criticism.
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‘The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years’ Improves Upon Its Predecessor
On Penelope Spheeris’ follow-up to her groundbreaking 1981 documentary.
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‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ Isn’t What You Think It’ll Be
‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ throws cold water on the logical insanity so often inherent to rom-com plots.
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‘The Running Man’ is a Silly Media Satire
‘The Running Man’ is too shortsighted for its own good.
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‘Black Moon’: Tedious Experimenting from Louis Malle
Not all viewable mechanisms for artistic growth have to be viewed.
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Florence Pugh is a Knockout in ‘Lady Macbeth’
Decades from now, Pugh’s work in ‘Lady Macbeth’ might garner a sort of ‘legendary starring debut’ status.
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‘Commando’ is a Fun Star Vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger
This is paint-by-numbers action at its best: it knows what its viewers expect of it and delivers.
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‘Personal Best’ Takes the Sports Movie to New Heights
‘Personal Best’ accomplishes many things and well, but among the most impressive of its achievements is that is also functions, almost off-handedly, as a paean to the undersung and the could-have-beens.
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The Unpredictable Menace of ‘The Prowler’
‘The Prowler’ is a red herring of a title until it isn’t anymore.
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
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