PETERSON REVIEWS
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Forces of Personality
On ‘Boudu Saved from Drowning’ and ‘Elena and Her Men.’
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On ‘Mikey and Nicky’
Notes on Elaine May’s unconventional buddy comedy.
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A New Kind of Rock Doc
On ‘Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,’ ‘Katy Perry: Part of Me,’ and ‘One Direction: This is Us.’
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On ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
Notes on Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 epic.
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‘The Dead Don’t Die’ is Minor Jim Jarmusch
The film, by its end, makes for a collection of exceptional performances and jokes strung together by an allegory whose center doesn’t hold.
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‘Creepshow’: An Anomalously Solid Horror-Anthology Movie
All efficiently capitalize on fairly all-inclusive fears and sprinkle in some nihilism and black humor for good measure.
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‘The Souvenir’ is a Delicate, Devastating Memory Movie
‘The Souvenir’ has a strange dichotomy between overwhelming intimacy and multilayered enigma.
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Maggie Cheung Gives One of Her Best Performances in ‘Center Stage’
But the movie is made shakier because of its distrait presentation.
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Private Eyes
‘Claire’s Camera’ is an epigrammatic 69 minutes, yet its short running time isn’t synonymous with sketchiness or lazy economy.
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On ‘Amazing Grace’
At the center of this church, Aretha Franklin creates not just a feeling of home and unity but announces herself as the closest thing to a divine being personified in that place and that moment.
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‘Homecoming’ is Overwhelming
‘Homecoming’ is undoubtedly one of the great rock docs, joining the pantheon of genre definitives like ‘Stop Making Sense’ and ‘Sign ‘o’ the Times.’
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Julianne Moore is Sublime in ‘Gloria Bell’
Moore, giving one of the great performances of her great-performance-heavy career, inspires such empathy that there came a point in the movie where I noticed that my facial expressions almost exactly matched the ones she was giving on screen.
MARCH 2026
The Theme is ‘Acting’
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‘Notting Hill’: A Star-Crossed Romance
Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant do wonders to soften — but not completely distract from — the contrivances of Roger Michell’s romantic comedy.
February 4, 2025
November 6, 2025
October 27, 2025
Disobedience
John Sayles’ groundbreaking ‘Lianna’ was a landmark — albeit a criminally underseen one — for lesbian representation in cinema.
February 25, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
On the screwball-comedy perfection of 1937’s ‘The Awful Truth.’
February 23, 2026
The Heart of the Matter
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ more than sidesteps divorce-movie expectations.
February 16, 2026
Peterson Reviews 