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 an extraordinary film, an Iranian director explores forgiveness and mercy
- Robert Redford forged a path in Hollywood that went beyond movie stardom
- Grab your popcorn and a seat. Toronto celebrates 50 years of moviegoing.
- Review In ‘Preparation for the Next Life,’ a couple searches for peace in a teeming world
- Review In moving film ‘A Little Prayer,’ a family tests the bonds that hold us together
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