PETERSON REVIEWS
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‘City on Fire’: More Than Just a ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Reference
Ringo Lam’s fifth movie of the 1980s winds up being far more serious than its Looney Tunes-inflected first couple of acts would lead you to believe.
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‘Enemy of the State’’s Prescient Thrills
In 2026, 1998’s ‘Enemy of the State’ feels glumly prophetic and surprisingly sound.
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The Body Horrors of ‘Mother Mary’ and ‘Agon’
For South Sound: New movies from David Lowery and Giulio Bertelli, reviewed.
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‘The Stuff’’s Evocative Stupidity
The 1985 film’s persistent illogic and ever-present suggestion that it’s going to fly off the rails make it come across as an up-is-down nightmare heightening real fears.
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Up to No Good
‘The Christophers,’ ‘The Stranger,’ and ‘Two Women,’ reviewed.
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Something’s Missing from ‘The Drama’
For 425: Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy is enjoyably prickly and queasily funny, but it’s surprisingly hesitant about fully engaging with its off-kilter premise.
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Different Angles
‘Steal This Story, Please!’ and ‘Palestine 36,’ reviewed.
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The Paranoid Corporate Games of ‘Black Test Car’
The pitilessness of Yasuzo Masumura’s black comedy continues to ring true more than six decades after its release.
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Superheroines
On Julia Loktev’s towering, terrifying ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.’
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Could the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas Become Filmmaking Hotspots?
For South Sound: Patrick Sheehan, founder of the new Peninsula Film Commission, thinks so.
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In ‘Jane,’ An Actress Stumbles Toward Greatness
On D.A. Pennebaker’s 1962 portrait of a young Jane Fonda.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Aims to Please
For South Sound: Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s space-set adventure wants to be an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser — sometimes to its detriment.
APRIL 2026
The Theme is ‘High Anxiety’
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Pam Grier, in Charming Amateur Detective Mode, in ‘Friday Foster’
Grier’s final movie with American International Pictures is among her most effortlessly enjoyable vehicles.
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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