Peter has been writing about films and film culture for the Monitor since 2006.
A three-time LA Press Club award-winner and the author of the 2013 book “Rainer On Film,” he was a 1998 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism while writing for New Times, then a Los Angeles weekly.
Peter can regularly be heard on the show “Film Week” on the old NPR-affiliate KPCC-FM (now LAist). The writer and a co-producer of A&E film biographies of both Sidney Poitier and the Hustons, he is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, of which he is a former longtime chairman.
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Stories by Peter Rainer
- Review French film ‘The Musicians’ and its classical quartet hit the right notes
- Review Plenty of movies revel in violence. ‘Sorry, Baby’ revels in honesty and healing.
- Review ‘F1: The Movie’ is propulsive. Brad Pitt holds the high-tech ride together.
- Review Not quite a rom-com, ‘Materialists’ is messy but enthralling
- Review One more ‘Mission’ – should you choose to accept it
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