All posts by Cate Marquis
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PAPILLON – Review
PAPILLON stars Charlie Hunnam and in a remake of the highly-praised 1973 film of the same name, based...
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MEMOIR OF WAR – Review
Melanie Thierry gives a haunting performance in director Emmanuel Finkiel’s finely-crafted MEMOIR OF WAR. This powerful, beautifully-shot French-language...
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THE CAKEMAKER – Review
Israeli writer/director Ophir Raul Graizer crafts a brilliant, moving drama that touches on identity, secrets, loneliness, sexuality and...
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DARK MONEY – Review
Director Kimberly Reed’s documentary DARK MONEY is a cautionary tale on the risks to a democratic republic from...
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PUZZLE – Review
Competitive jigsaw puzzle solving does not sound exciting but the surprisingly engrossing PUZZLE is more about a woman...
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GENERATION WEALTH – Review
GENERATION WEALTH sounds like it’s about income inequality and the One Percent, but it is not. While Lauren...
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MCQUEEN – Review
For a documentary titled MCQUEEN, a question quickly springs to mind: which one? Steve McQueen, the iconic actor?...
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THE MEG – Review
For some, summer is not complete without a shark movie or a dinosaur one. THE MEG is both...
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CHRISTOPHER ROBIN – Review
The Winnie the Pooh stories are among the great treasures of childhood but this seeming re-write of the...
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DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT – Review
Gus Van Sant’s DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT follows a man on a life-changing journey...
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EIGHTH GRADE – Review
Writer/director Bo Burnham’s EIGHTH GRADE is a remarkably true and honest portrait of a 13-year-old girl’s journey through...
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MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN – Review
The sequel MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN is explosion of late ’70s spandex and glitter set to...
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SORRY TO BOTHER YOU – Review
Director/writer Boots Riley’s ambitious, inspired social satire SORRY TO BOTHER YOU sets its protagonist, a young black man...
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EATING ANIMALS – Review
EATING ANIMALS has its title slightly wrong. The documentary should have been called “Factory Farming Animals,” because that...
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BOUNDARIES – Review
With a fine cast headed by Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga, BOUNDARIES looked promising but the road trip...
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DAMSEL – Review
In the weird Western indie comedy DAMSEL, Robert Pattinson plays Samuel Alabaster, a nattily dressed young man who...
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SICARIO 2 DAY OF THE SOLDADO – Review
“Sicario” means a hitman in Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico border is the setting for the violent thriller SICARIO...
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THE CATCHER WAS A SPY – Review
THE CATCHER WAS A SPY is a strange slice of history, about a real-life Jewish Major League baseball...
