All posts by Cate Marquis
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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...
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THE TEACHERS LOUNGE – Review
There is something going on in the teachers’ lounge, which goes way beyond school walls, in the thriller-like...
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ZONE OF INTEREST – Review
The “zone of interest” is the euphemism the Nazis used to describe the area around Auschwitz, which included...
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FREUD’S LAST SESSION – Review
Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins) and C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) debate their opposing views on religion verses reason on...
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THE BOOK OF CLARENCE – Review
Director/writer Jeymes Samuel seems to have been inspired by those Hollywood’s long tradition of epic Biblical movies, like...
