All posts tagged "Israel"
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Cate Marquis | August 1, 2024
AMERICA – Review
AMERICA, despite the title, is not set in the U.S. nor is it about America, Instead, it is...
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Cate Marquis | April 14, 2024
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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Cate Marquis | August 24, 2023
GOLDA – Review
Helen Mirren portrays Golda Meir, Israel’s first women prime minister, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in GOLDA....
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Cate Marquis | March 12, 2022
GREENER PASTURES – SLJFF Review
In the delightfully funny Israeli comedy GREENER PASTURES, a retiree named Dov (Shlomo Bar-Aba) feels like he has...
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Jim Batts | June 9, 2021
SUBLET (2020) – Review
June, when it’s not “bustin’ out all over” is vacation time, so break out of your rut and...
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Cate Marquis | August 17, 2018
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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Jim Batts | March 29, 2018
FOXTROT (2017) – Review
Despite the title of this film’s association with the dance world, its subject is not the stuff of...
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Jim Batts | March 15, 2018
7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE – Review
Though the Oscar ceremony is less than two weeks old, the studios are returning to real-life subject...
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Cate Marquis | November 9, 2017
SLIFF 2017 Review – THE TESTAMENT
THE TESTAMENT will screen at Plaza Frontenac Cinema (Lindbergh Blvd. and Clayton Rd, Frontenac, MO 63131) as part...
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Cate Marquis | May 31, 2017
PAST LIFE – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
Tuesday, June 6, at 1 PM, Plaza Frontenac Cinema Israel; in Hebrew, English, German, and Polish with English...
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Jim Batts | May 25, 2017
THE WEDDING PLAN – Review
We’re less than a week away from June, the big wedding month, so let’s head, not to the...
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Jim Batts | November 10, 2015
SLIFF 2015 Review: THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
Now this makes for an interesting double feature. Recently I looked at the SLIFF feature entry from France,...
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Jim Batts | March 19, 2015
GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM – The Review
The legal dissolution of a marriage has been dramatic fodder for serious films throughout the years, including KRAMER...
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Jim Batts | August 31, 2011
THE DEBT (2010) – The Review
This movie re-enforces the old adage “what goes around comes around.” Or more specifically that it’s always easier...
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Jerry Cavallaro | April 25, 2011
Tribeca 2011 Review: RABIES
There is a fundamental flaw with RABIES that will unfortunately hold it back from the major success it...
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Jim Batts | April 14, 2011
MIRAL – The Review
With all the different conflicts in the Middle East in the news headlines the last few months, it’s...
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Travis Keune | June 5, 2009
Review: ‘Lemon Tree’
‘Lemon Tree’ (Itz Limon) is a powerful drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who...
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Scott | December 4, 2008
Henry Rollins, Uncut from Israel
I don’t know how many of you watch ‘The Henry Rollins Show’ on IFC, but Henry has a...