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 In top-notch Indian film, three Mumbai women encounter what makes a life worth living
- Review ‘Emilia Pérez’ breaks genres and bursts into song in a one-of-a-kind movie
- Review In ‘A Real Pain,’ a road trip whose emotional power sneaks up on you
- Review ‘Road Diary’ documentary offers a front-row seat to stellar Bruce Springsteen
- Review ‘Anora’ thinks she’s found her Prince Charming. This 5-star movie is no fairy tale.
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