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Karen M. Peterson

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Wicker (2026) 91% B+ EDIT “[Olivia] Colman is great in dignified and serious roles, but it’s so much fun when she doffs the suits and posh British manners in favor of unrefined, unrestrained humor. ” – AwardsWatch Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 89% A EDIT “The most remarkable thing about The Invite is not the films it is like, but in the way we are invited to be part of something special, thoughtful, and refreshingly hopeful.” – AwardsWatch Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Gallerist (2026) 50% B+ EDIT “The Gallerist has so many big ideas and juggles them all like a skillfully choreographed routine...as Andy Warhol said in a quote that opens the film, "Art is what you can get away with," and Cathy Yan can get away with quite a lot.” – AwardsWatch Jan 26, 2026 Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 88% B+ EDIT “[Cooper] Hoffman has already proven himself a talented actor, but his work in I Want Your Sex is his most brazen, fearless performance so far.” – AwardsWatch Jan 25, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 73% D EDIT “For a movie that could have been an entertaining, twisty thriller, it winds up being laughable and eye-rolling instead.” – AwardsWatch Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% B- EDIT “When it works, one of the great things about Song Sung Blue is the compassion and realism with which it treats the lower middle class of America’s heartland.” – AwardsWatch Oct 31, 2025 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “An incredible cast, so imaginative... How can anyone not like 'The Princess Bride?'” – Citizen Dame Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% C EDIT “There is a lot riding on the success of Thunderbolts* and the film itself is not a total disaster. It has some funny moments, a few heartfelt ones, and a Terminator 2 homage that certainly will have audiences cheering.” – AwardsWatch Apr 29, 2025 Full Review The Amateur (2025) 62% C EDIT “One would expect an actor of Rami Malek’s caliber to bring something interesting even to a thinly written role, except that he doesn’t.” – AwardsWatch Apr 8, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 40% C EDIT “With its central gimmick and insistence on telling about events rather than showing them,The Alto Knights might have made a moderately entertaining television movie.” – AwardsWatch Mar 19, 2025 Full Review My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) 94% EDIT “"My Dead Friend Zoe" is an uncomplicated film about complicated people, patiently working through trauma and grief in ways that are sometimes funny, sometimes exacerbating, and always deeply human.” – Citizen Dame Mar 5, 2025 Full Review The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 96% A EDIT “The Ballad of Wallis Island feels like a John Carney film, with the folksy sweetness of Flora & Son or Once. It is a heartfelt, warm blanket of a comedy that contains just the right amounts of depth and real feelings to keep it from being too silly.” – AwardsWatch Jan 31, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% B+ EDIT “Modernizing the script James Schamus originally co-wrote with Ang Lee and Neil Peng, Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet dreams of a world in which people are capable of change, parents and children can overcome their differences, and happy endings are possible.” – AwardsWatch Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% B EDIT “But stealing the show is Tonatiuh, who was born to be a star. Stepping into the role for which William Hurt won an Academy Award, Tonatiuh lights up the screen.” – AwardsWatch Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 93% A EDIT “O’Connor is able to convey so much of Dusty’s grief, helplessness, and isolation with few words.” – AwardsWatch Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Omaha (2025) 89% A EDIT “[John] Magaro delivers an understated yet powerful performance as a desperate, grieving single father at the end of his fraying rope.” – AwardsWatch Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% A- EDIT “Through 1980s-inspired practical makeup and visual effects and slasher/monster movie levels of bloody violence, Leigh Whannell gives a fresh update to the Universal monster and a worthy new addition to his own collection.” – AwardsWatch Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% A EDIT “Ariana Grande-Butera is a force. Erivo is as good an Elphaba as there ever was.” – AwardsWatch Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% A- EDIT “Beck and Woods have constructed an amusement park funhouse in which religion is a personal and acceptable choice and the villain is not simply another religion or the absence of it, but the assumption that those who follow are compelled to.” – AwardsWatch Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Music by John Williams (2024) 100% A EDIT “Bouzereau understands that with a man like John Williams, the story isn’t just where he came from or how he ended up going from playing piano to scoring Star Wars. ” – AwardsWatch Oct 27, 2024 Full Review Saturday Night (2024) 77% EDIT “The fun is in the twinkling eye of Gabriel LaBelle's Lorne Michaels. He knows it will work and we all just get to go along for the ride.” – Citizen Dame Sep 30, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “"The Substance" embraces the concept of body horror with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Coralie Fargeat refuses to hold anything back, crafting a visceral, funny, and human story.” – Citizen Dame Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Transformers One (2024) 89% A EDIT “Transformers One channels the joy that first brought audiences to this universe back in the 1980s and proves there are still good stories left to tell.” – AwardsWatch Sep 12, 2024 Full Review Fly Me to the Moon (2024) 66% C EDIT “Johansson is having a lot of fun as the playful, feisty Jones. For Tatum, this film is the next step in an ever-evolving career. Unfortunately, all the best parts of the film are undone by a story that defies logic or reality.” – AwardsWatch Jul 9, 2024 Full Review MaXXXine (2024) 73% EDIT “"Maxxxine" is an okay thriller. It is not terrible. But it is not a horror movie, and it is not a satisfying final chapter in the trilogy.” – Citizen Dame Jul 5, 2024 Full Review
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