PETERSON REVIEWS
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Sleuthing is a Nightmare in ‘Angel Heart’
The creepy aesthetic of Alan Parker’s horror-inflected detective movie from 1987 is the strongest thing about it.
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Richard Roundtree is Electric in ‘Shaft’
Gordon Parks’ 1971 thriller, and Roundtree’s terrific work in it, paved the way for a new generation of Black action heroes.
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Mirror Images
‘Twinless’ and ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites,’ reviewed.
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‘Joint Security Area’ Emotionally Complicates the Whodunit
Park Chan-wook’s Korean Demilitarized Zone-set mystery is less interested in investigative twistiness than the surprisingly touching, then tragic, backstory behind its plot-driving murders.
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Misery Business
‘Splitsville’ and ‘Caught Stealing,’ reviewed.
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Candy Land
Jacques Rivette’s free-wheeling 1974 epic ‘Céline and Julie Go Boating’ is charmingly confounding.
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The Nasty, Brutish, and Short ‘Three on a Match’
This entertaining, bite-size soap is almost absurdly bleak.
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The Late-Period Hits and Misses of ‘Honey Don’t!’ and ‘Highest 2 Lowest’
For 425: New movies from Ethan Coen and Spike Lee, reviewed.
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Crispin Glover Isn’t the Best Thing About ‘Rubin & Ed’
Despite giving the flashiest performance in Trent Harris’ giddily weird comedy, it’s the lower-key Howard Hesseman who runs away with the movie.
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Avery Cochrane’s Pop Confections
For 425: The Seattle-based singer-songwriter discusses her new single, her artistic process, the perils of social media, and what inspires her.
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Paths of Resistance
‘A Special Day,’ Ettore Scola’s moving, antifascist two-hander from 1977, features stunning work from Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
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The Powerful Testimonies of ‘Sudan, Remember Us’
Journalist and filmmaker Hind Meddeb’s latest project is an indispensable, multiperspective account of resistance.
JUNE 2026
The Theme is ‘Pride’
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‘Desperate Living’ Feels Like the End of an Era
John Waters’ last movie before making his foray into the mainstream is among his most underrated.
May 25, 2026
May 13. 2026
March 27, 2026
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 