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
- After $1 billion and 2 Oscars, ‘Joker’ is back (with songs). Our team weighs in.
- Review Francis Ford Coppola spent $125 million on ‘Megalopolis.’ How is it?
- One week, 20 movies, and Springsteen: Our critic’s picks from Toronto
- Review Indigenous children were abused in Canada. A film seeks answers.
- Review With powerful ‘Green Border,’ a filmmaker searches for humanity in immigration stories
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