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 ‘The Friend’ gives Naomi Watts a terrific co-star. Yes, he’s a Great Dane.
- Review Wit and wonder fuel 5-star ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’
- As the Oscars near, there’s still time to see these best performances
- Review In ‘I’m Still Here,’ a compelling search for justice in 1970s Brazil
- Review Yes, Chalamet can sing. But can ‘A Complete Unknown’ capture Bob Dylan?
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