PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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‘The Big Red One’: The Glory of War
‘The Big Red One’ has the look and feel of a far more romantic movie but is perhaps even more pessimistic than its more conventionally pessimistically-presenting counterparts.
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‘The Bad News Bears’ is a Terrific Sports Comedy
Especially first-rate are the scenes featuring just Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal, who, while also being the most well-drawn characters in ‘The Bad News Bears,’ have a funny, jagged onscreen relationship.
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‘Birds of Prey’: A Major Step Up from Its Predecessor
It’s one of the more invigorating DC-sanctioned superhero features in a while.
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The Horrors of Self-Optimization in ‘Seconds’
On Frankenheimer’s excellent black comedy.
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‘The Last of Sheila’ is an All-Time-Great Whodunit
On Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins’ assiduously crafted mystery film.
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Chic Thrills
Notes on ‘The Unfaithful Wife,’ ‘Le Boucher,’ ‘Just Before Nightfall,’ ‘Violette Nozière,’ and ‘Betty.’
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‘The Rapture’ is an Essential Movie About Religion
It’s a shame for ‘The Rapture’ to continue going on little seen: It’s one of the most unforgettably tantalizing movies about religion I’ve seen.
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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