PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Knife + Heart’: Sex and Death
What makes ‘Knife + Heart’ such sleazy fun is how well it mixes pleasure and panic before the darkness becomes inescapable.
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Sabor
The evolution of Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas.
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‘Knives Out’ and ‘Honey Boy,’ Reviewed
On a modern-day whodunit and a heartrending autobiography.
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‘Mommie Dearest’ is Excruciating to Watch
Faye Dunaway is like a vacuum in ‘Mommie Dearest’: loud and prone to engulfing everything around her.
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On ‘The Honeymoon Killers’
‘The Honeymoon Killers’ was Kastle’s first movie. It was also his last.
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‘Postcards from the Edge’ Has an Unforgettable Mother-Daughter Pair in Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine
The film is imperfect and in ways that should be debilitating. But the writing and the performances cushion the blows.
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‘Dolemite is My Name’ and ‘The King,’ Reviewed
Two new movies.
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‘A Touch of Class’ Feels Like Two Movies
‘A Touch of Class’ could be a nice subversion of old tropes with a biting twist. But instead it’s an update on old tropes with a contrived twist.
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In ‘Parasite,’ the Laughs Cost You
On Bong Joon-ho’s immediate classic.
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On ‘Crash’
You watch it astonished that Cronenberg not only dared to make it but dared to make it with such artful dedication.
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‘The Lighthouse’ and ‘The Laundromat,’ Reviewed
A look at the latest efforts from Robert Eggers and Steven Soderbergh.
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On ‘Wanda’
On Barbara Loden’s sole feature-length project.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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Jean Gillie is the Reason to See ‘Decoy’
Jack Bernhard’s 1946 noir never completely grabs you, but Gillie’s impressively vicious performance almost makes up for it.
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 