PETERSON REVIEWS
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On ‘Wanda’
On Barbara Loden’s sole feature-length project.
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It Would Almost Be Impolite Not to Be Enchanted by ‘A Matter of Life and Death’
On Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1946 masterpiece.
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Ingrid Pitt Makes ‘The Vampire Lovers’ Worth Watching
Aside from Pitt and the way it gets us to root for a villain, ‘The Vampire Lovers’ isn’t very good on the whole.
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Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol Do ‘Horror’
On ‘Flesh for Frankenstein’ and ‘Blood for Dracula.’
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‘Critters’: Creepy Crawlies
‘Critters’ is for most intents and purposes a home-invasion thriller, not the roving chase movie one might expect.
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The Deceptive Scope of ‘Ad Astra’
At its crux, ‘Ad Astra’ is an intimate and traditionalist father-son story.
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Goo
Two great Peter Jackson movies.
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Nightmares
‘Cujo,’ ‘Children of the Corn,’ and ‘Pet Sematary,’ reviewed.
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The Familial Ruin of ‘Chinese Roulette’
The film has undoubtedly been made by a filmmaker preternaturally in touch with his sensibility.
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‘Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer’ is as Bleak as You’d Expect, But It’s Worthwhile
The film is expectedly unpleasant, but the unpleasantness is never needless.
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On ‘Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages’
This is an audacious experiment whose ingenuity and ambitious craftsmanship holds up.
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‘Popcorn’: An Underappreciated Horror Satire
In a 2017 interview with The A.V. Club, Dee Wallace described the making of ‘Popcorn’ as a ‘true adventure’ — chaotic because of ever-shifting producers, directors, and questionable shooting conditions. But you can’t feel any of the bedlam in the finished product.
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
May 25, 2026
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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