PETERSON REVIEWS
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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.
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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.
SEPTEMBER 2026
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‘Bigger Than Life”s Resounding Anger
By the film’s end, which offers no resounding resolution, you feel practically pummeled by its driving dilemma.
August 19, 2026
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May 13. 2026
Strong, Stoic Types
Director-star Paul Newman’s 1971 treatment of Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’ perceptively observes the corrosiveness of toxic masculinity.
August 7, 2026
Working Girls
‘Broken Mirrors,’ Marleen Gorris’ 1984 follow-up to her still-transcendent feminist drama ‘A Question of Silence,’ expands on its predecessor’s themes while dramatically improving on its writer-director’s aesthetic command.
July 9, 2026
Found Connections
Donna Deitch’s ‘Desert Hearts’ was a breakthrough for lesbian representation in cinema. It also achieves another rarified thing: Characters who feel like they exist outside a screenplay’s bounds.
June 30, 2026
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