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 鈥淩ainer On Film,鈥� 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 鈥淔ilm Week鈥� 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 鈥楶reparation for the Next Life,鈥� a couple searches for peace in a teeming world
- Review In moving film 鈥楢 Little Prayer,鈥� a family tests the bonds that hold us together
- Review French film 鈥楾he Musicians鈥� and its classical quartet hit the right notes
- Review Plenty of movies revel in violence. 鈥楽orry, Baby鈥� revels in honesty and healing.
- Review 鈥楩1: The Movie鈥� is propulsive. Brad Pitt holds the high-tech ride together.
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