PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Boom!’: Better Than Its Rep
It’s an anomaly in the bad-movie canon in that many of its detractors recognize that it’s a special kind of bad.
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‘The Witch Who Came from the Sea’ and ‘Demon Seed,’ Reviewed
On Matt Cimber’s misunderstood study of trauma and Donald Cammell’s fairly prescient horror thriller.
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On ‘The Hidden’
‘The Hidden’ is a standard-enough cop thriller though more so feels like the kind of old-fashioned chase movie American International Pictures used to make, just with a sci-fi edge.
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Lesson in Survival
Five films by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li.
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‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ is a Brainy Sex Comedy
On Paul Mazursky’s 1969 comedy classic.
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‘Wild Rose’: A Star is Born
Buckley gives the kind of performance that might make you cry.
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‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ and ‘The Invisible Man,’ Reviewed
One of the best movies of 2019 and an unexpectedly great horror adaptation.
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‘The Lodge,’ ‘Little Monsters,’ and ‘Crawl,’ Reviewed
Notes on movies about descending into madness, zombies, and killer crocs.
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‘The Vanishing’: Darker Than Dark
The film is a testament to an imprecise malice always waiting around the corner — a reminder that anything can happen to anyone.
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You Get Lost in ‘Miami Vice’
On Michael Mann’s cinematic take on the 1980s TV show.
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On Ingmar Bergman’s Only Horror Movie
The creative process can be nightmarish. But it’s never, at least in my experience, as nightmarish as it is in ‘Hour of the Wolf.’
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Gone Too Soon: On Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’
‘High Fidelity’ sounds like just another unnecessary reboot on paper. Fortunately it proves itself more interesting than that.
MARCH 2026
The Theme is ‘Acting’
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‘Notting Hill’: A Star-Crossed Romance
Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant do wonders to soften — but not completely distract from — the contrivances of Roger Michell’s romantic comedy.
February 4, 2025
November 6, 2025
October 27, 2025
Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
February 25, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
February 23, 2026
The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
February 16, 2026
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