All posts tagged "True Story"
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Cate Marquis | August 16, 2024
SING SING – Review
SING SING is not about vocalizing but a powerful, moving drama about the transformative power of art in...
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Cate Marquis | July 25, 2024
WIDOW CLICQUOT – Review
If you celebrate by drinking champagne, you have a French widow in the Napoleonic age to thank. And...
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Cate Marquis | April 5, 2024
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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Cate Marquis | October 20, 2023
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review
In the 1920s, the people of the Osage Nation became the richest people on earth after oil was...
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Cate Marquis | January 20, 2023
WOMEN TALKING – Review
There is a lot of talk about WOMEN TALKING – awards talk. The title of this electrifying ensemble...
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Cate Marquis | December 13, 2022
EMANCIPATION – Review
An unrecognizable Will Smith stars as an enslaved man in Civil War era Louisiana, who decides upon hearing...
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Cate Marquis | November 18, 2022
SHE SAID – Review
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star in the engrossing true-story drama SHE SAID, which throws a spotlight on...
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Cate Marquis | August 19, 2022
MY NAME IS SARA – Review
How many 13-year-olds have the self-discipline to pretend to be someone else for two years, without once revealing...
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Cate Marquis | August 5, 2022
THIRTEEN LIVES – Review
When a Thai boys soccer team was trapped in a cave by flash flooding in 2018, the world...
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Cate Marquis | June 17, 2022
PHANTOM OF THE OPEN – Review
In the charming true-story comedy PHANTOM OF THE OPEN, Mark Rylance plays the worst golfer in British Open...
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Cate Marquis | May 6, 2022
OPERATION MINCEMEAT – Review
“Truth is stranger than fiction” stories are often the best, and the true story behind the British WWII...
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Cate Marquis | April 29, 2022
FIREBIRD – Review
Set in Cold War-era Estonia, then occupied by the Soviet Union, a two young men, a soldier and...
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Cate Marquis | April 29, 2022
THE DUKE – Review
In this delightful, true story-based, quirky comic tale, Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren costar as a bickering couple...
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Cate Marquis | March 25, 2022
INFINITE STORM – Review
It’s said truth is stranger than fiction, and one strange tale based on true facts inspired INFINITE STORM,...
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Cate Marquis | December 25, 2021
A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN – Review
Denzel Washington directs this true-story based drama about love and loss, starring Michael B. Jordan and Chanté Adams...
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Cate Marquis | November 24, 2021
HOUSE OF GUCCI – Review
HOUSE OF GUCCI is based on a true story, one filled with wealth, power, ambition, family, tradition, high...
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Cate Marquis | November 6, 2021
HIVE – SLIFF Review
A triple winner at Sundance and Kosovo’s official submission for the Oscars, HIVE is one of several outstanding...
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Cate Marquis | June 18, 2021
12 MIGHTY ORPHANS – Review
This true-story film is a feel-good lesson in brains over brawn and the value of persistence, a Depression-era...