Gerald Peary

Gerald Peary Boston Phoenix Sep 18, 2026 Unfortunately, the film makes its strongest case for the husbands. Go to Full Review The First Wives Club (1996) 56% 68%

Gerald Peary Boston Phoenix Jul 28, 2026 2/4 Its comedy more ugly than amusing. Go to Full Review Matilda (1996) 90% 73%

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2026 A sparkling no-budget regionalist drama set in small-town Nevada about a bunch of outsider teens. Go to Full Review Sparks (2026) 90% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2026 I savored Schoenbrun’s smart, revisionist take on the slasher genre. And — a slightly guilty pleasure — I relished the inventive, creepy foray into extreme violence culminating in a lesbian lovefest bloodbath. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2026 A film that has no compelling story, no dramatic arc, and which begins, middles, and ends in the same too-mellow place. Go to Full Review Summer Tour (2025) - - - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2026 Soul Patrol offers a melancholy, touching elegy to a brave and honorable bunch of ex-soldiers, proud of what they did even if still conflicted about whether the Vietnam War was worth fighting. Go to Full Review Soul Patrol (2026) 95% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2026 Give Me the Ball! offers a winning portrait of Billie Jean King as a pioneering activist for women tennis players seeking equal pay and also as a slowly coming-out lesbian. Go to Full Review Give Me the Ball! (2026) 100% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2026 I liked the Mary Oliver documentary, ably directed by Sasha Waters. Go to Full Review Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026) 94% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Apr 20, 2026 In a worthy way, Ozon pulls The Stranger into the 21st century. Go to Full Review The Stranger (2025) 91% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 24, 2025 Dreams (Sex Love) is a film that can be read and argued about in many ways, and it’s even better with its shifting experimental voiceover and its three-generation voices of fascinating, articulate women. Go to Full Review Dreams (2024) 91% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 24, 2025 Cooperman succeeded admirably in her ambition: to locate common ground and humanity in a rough and right-wing American community. Go to Full Review Creede U.S.A. (2025) - - - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2025 The character of Anand is too passive to really get behind and root for, and Kanawade’s direction is somewhat languid, even sluggish. Go to Full Review Cactus Pears (2025) 95% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2025 The Baltimorons is fairly funny, a bit slim. Go to Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 93% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2025 We don’t learn enough about any of the teeners to make their journeys psychologically or spiritually meaningful. Go to Full Review Folktales (2025) 85% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 23, 2025 Hooray for this weighty and necessary film! Hooray for mighty librarians! Go to Full Review The Librarians (2025) 95% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse May 15, 2025 Several of the most delightful scenes in Marcella feature young chefs, Hazan acolytes, making her most iconic dishes. Baked chicken done with salt and two lemons sewn inside. That’s all. Go to Full Review Marcella (2024) 91% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse May 8, 2025 The movie capsizes and never recovers when Anne arrives at the Riviera. She’s played by Chloë Sevigny. A disastrous miscasting. Go to Full Review Bonjour Tristesse (2024) 68% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Mar 10, 2025 Despite the melancholia in the air, Ex-Husbands is still fun to watch for the atmospheric use of scenic Tulum on the Yucatan Peninsula. Go to Full Review Ex-Husbands (2023) 76% - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Mar 4, 2025 DeFranco's didactic female-empowerment music doesn't register for me. But she's a complicated, absorbing person who held my attention completely in 1-800-On-Her-Own. Go to Full Review 1-800-ON-HER-OWN (2024) - - - -

Gerald Peary Arts Fuse Jun 25, 2024 A far too worshipful saga of Liza Minnelli, which title, like its hero, is way over the top: Liza: a Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story. Go to Full Review Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024) 91% - -