PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘Queen & Slim’ and ‘Dark Waters,’ Reviewed
On a stylish lovers-on-the-run story and a paranoid thriller.
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Everyone is at Their Best in ‘The Irishman’
‘The Irishman’ feels like something of a climax for the lead actors — like their professional lives have been leading to this moment.
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‘Knife + Heart’: Sex and Death
What makes ‘Knife + Heart’ such sleazy fun is how well it mixes pleasure and panic before the darkness becomes inescapable.
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Sabor
The evolution of Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas.
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‘Knives Out’ and ‘Honey Boy,’ Reviewed
On a modern-day whodunit and a heartrending autobiography.
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‘Mommie Dearest’ is Excruciating to Watch
Faye Dunaway is like a vacuum in ‘Mommie Dearest’: loud and prone to engulfing everything around her.
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On ‘The Honeymoon Killers’
‘The Honeymoon Killers’ was Kastle’s first movie. It was also his last.
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‘Postcards from the Edge’ Has an Unforgettable Mother-Daughter Pair in Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine
The film is imperfect and in ways that should be debilitating. But the writing and the performances cushion the blows.
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‘Dolemite is My Name’ and ‘The King,’ Reviewed
Two new movies.
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‘A Touch of Class’ Feels Like Two Movies
‘A Touch of Class’ could be a nice subversion of old tropes with a biting twist. But instead it’s an update on old tropes with a contrived twist.
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In ‘Parasite,’ the Laughs Cost You
On Bong Joon-ho’s immediate classic.
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On ‘Crash’
You watch it astonished that Cronenberg not only dared to make it but dared to make it with such artful dedication.
OCTOBER 2026
The Theme is ‘Thrills and Chills’
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Sin and Vice
On ‘The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh,’ ‘Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key,’ and ‘All the Colors of the Dark,’ an informal trilogy from Sergio Martino starring Edwige Fenech.
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
