All posts by Cate Marquis
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YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE – Review
Joaquin Phoenix plays a traumatized veteran who has built a career out of tracking down and saving missing...
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BEIRUT – Review
Jon Hamm finally gets the leading man role he has long deserved, in the Middle East-set thriller BEIRUT....
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1945 – Review
Hungarian director Ferenc Torok’s haunting, visually striking black-and-white drama 1945 takes place in a small Hungarian village shortly...
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FLOWER – Review
Director Max Winkler takes the “troubled teen” concept of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and refreshes it by casting...
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THE DEATH OF STALIN – Review
Tragedy plus time equals comedy, the old saying goes. THE DEATH OF STALIN, oddly, is a comedy, a...
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OH LUCY – Review
Director Atsuko Hirayanagi makes a strong feature film debut with OH LUCY, a Japanese comedy/drama with a darker,...
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LOVELESS – Review
The title of director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s film LOVELESS sums up the world that twelve-year old Alyosha (or Alexey...
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SUBMISSION – Review
Writer/director Richard Levine’s film SUBMISSION is being promoted as a modern updating of the novel “The Blue Angel.”...
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THE PARTY – Review
In Sally Potter’s THE PARTY, what starts out as a quiet little celebration rapidly transforms into a series...
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A FANTASTIC WOMAN – Review
Chilean director Sebastian Lelio’s A FANTASTIC WOMAN is indeed a fantastic film, with a fantastic performance by its...
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NOSTALGIA – Review
Nostalgia is a word that evokes a warm feeling of sentiment and sentimentality, something linked to pleasant memories...
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FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL – Review
FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL is based on Peter Turner’s memoir of the same name, about his...
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THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN – Review
THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN has a classic Western story but with a different twist: this time the...
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THE INSULT – Review
A personal dispute between two men in Beirut, one Christian Lebanese and the other Palestinian, escalates into...
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GOD’S OWN COUNTRY – Review
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY is award-winning British independent film, a romantic drama set in a windswept rural...
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THE CLAPPER – Review
THE CLAPPER is an indie film about a different side of Hollywood, a kind of romantic comedy about...
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THE FINAL YEAR – Review
THE FINAL YEAR is a documentary look at the last year of the Obama administration, or least the...
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THE POST – Review
In THE POST, director Steven Spielberg delivers a remarkable and timely film about freedom of the press, a...
