All posts by Cate Marquis
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BACK TO BLACK – Review
Talented singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse’s tragic life was already the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, AMY in 2015, made...
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NOWHERE SPECIAL – Review
James Norton plays an Irish single father of a 4-year-old boy in director Uberto Pasolini’s touching, bittersweet drama...
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KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – Review
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES continues the “Planet of the Apes” science fiction saga that was...
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JEANNE DU BARRY – Review
Johnny Depp as France’s King Louis XV? Speaking French? Yeah, I want to see that. That was my...
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THE FALL GUY – Review
A love letter to Hollywood and stunt men, THE FALL GUY is an entertaining, stunt-packed action/comedy film wrapped...
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WE GROWN NOW – Review
In a touching portrait of childhood friendship, the child-focused WE GROWN NOW captures the magic and innocence of...
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THE SHADOW OF THE DAY – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
THE SHADOW OF THE DAY is a hauntingly beautiful tale of love and sacrifice in wartime, a story...
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MATCHMAKING – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
MATCHMAKING, one of the best comedies at this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, is a romantic comedy...
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LA CHIMERA – Review
In Alice Rohrwacher’s Felliniesque tragicomic adventure tale LA CHIMERA, an English archaeologist-turned-tomb raider named Arthur (Josh O’Connor) leads...
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WICKED LITTLE LETTERS – Review
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS is one of those truth-stranger-than-fiction tales that remind us that people are weirder than we...
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SHAYDA – Review
Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) flees her abusive husband in Iran, along with her six-year-old daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia),...
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AMERICAN DREAMER – Review
In the comedy AMERICAN DREAMER, Peter Dinklage plays a curmudgeonly college professor with a dream to buy a...
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ONE LIFE – Review
The moving ONE LIFE throws a spotlight on a British man, Nicholas Winton, who has been called the...
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FRIDA – Review
Frida Kahlo remains endlessly intriguing, in part because the Mexican artist’s colorful paintings remain striking, mysterious and even...
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RICKY STANICKY – Review
Peter Farrelly’s RICKY STANICKY is an R-Rated, penis-joke filled bro comedy about three childhood friends who invented a...
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DUNE: PART 2 – Review
If you were perhaps underwhelmed by the first DUNE movie, DUNE: PART 2 brings the real pay-off for...
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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE – Review
Full confession: I love Bob Marley, so a biographical drama about the reggae icon is pure catnip for...
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THE TASTE OF THINGS – Review
Warning: Don’t see this film hungry! Delicious shots of delicious food in a luscious landscape fill the French...
