All posts by Cate Marquis
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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...
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AMERICAN FICTION – Review
Everyone wants to feel seen as who they are, not who others think they should be. In the...
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POOR THINGS – Review
Smart, clever and inventive, POOR THINGS is described by the filmmakers as “the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter...
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THE OATH – Review
A historic drama about the descendants of two brothers from Egypt battling for control in North America, sounds...
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CANDY CANE LANE – Review
CANDY CANE LANE is a light, pleasant little holiday treat, much like the candy its name suggests. The...
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FALLEN LEAVES – Review
FALLEN LEAVES is a romantic comedy from Finland, with the driest of humor. Bone-dry does not cover it;...
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DREAM SCENARIO – Review
DREAM SCENARIO is more of a nightmare for Nicholas Cage’s character, in this darkest of comedies from Norwegian...
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SALTBURN – Review
Oscar-winning writer/director Emerald Fennell bowled audiences over with A PROMING YOUNG WOMAN, her intelligent, taut thriller directorial debut....
