PETERSON REVIEWS
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The Growing Pains of ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’
Todd Solondz has fashioned a great cinematic Bildungsroman.
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‘The Wicker Man’ is a Nightmare You Can’t Wait to Revisit
Unlike in the movie, where an “appointment” with the eponymous structure is, spoiler alert, unappealing, any appointment with any copy of ‘The Wicker Man’ sounds conversely appealing
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The Subjects of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Deserve Better
This well-intentioned biopic is bristled with distortion and damaging excision.
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On ‘Naked Lunch’
Not uncommon for Cronenberg, who often makes apolcalyptic-feeling movies in which sense is never among the top priorities, ‘Naked Lunch’ is never rational.
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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.
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
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