PETERSON REVIEWS
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Purgatories
‘Predator’ and ‘The Last Action Hero,’ reviewed.
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‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ Feels Like It Could Be Recounted Over a Campfire
Just like how even told-to-death, campfire-baiting ghost stories never truly get old if told the right way, movies like ‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ don’t either.
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‘Trouble in Mind’ is Cold to the Touch
‘Trouble in Mind’ is in a state of used to be.
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‘Logan’s Run’ is an Intriguing Dystopian Thriller
The seriousness of the world-building and concepts is at odds with the look of the movie.
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‘Conan the Barbarian’: The Movie That Made Arnold Schwarzenegger a Star
This is a project manifestly as interested in thrill-giving as it is in milieu-building.
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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.
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 