All posts tagged "family"
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Cate Marquis | February 14, 2024
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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Cate Marquis | January 5, 2024
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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Cate Marquis | December 8, 2023
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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Cate Marquis | November 17, 2023
ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT – SLIFF Review
ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT offers a visually beautiful mediation on childhood, family and love, that begins...
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Mark Glass | November 15, 2023
ROSE – Review
The subtitled Danish dramedy ROSE features an award-worthy performance from its star, elevating what could have been treacly...
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Cate Marquis | September 8, 2023
MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3 – Review
Did we need a MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3? Somebody thought so. Sure, the first one was...
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Jim Batts | June 29, 2023
RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN – Review
Things have certainly gotten interesting recently with the Summer box office. Usually, we’d be talking about the records...
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Jim Batts | June 13, 2023
ELEMENTAL (2023) – Review
When thinking of the animation process, we naturally think of giving movement to characters created by artists using...
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Cate Marquis | May 26, 2023
ABOUT MY FATHER – Review
Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco plays a man named Sebastian Maniscalco while Robert De Niro plays his father Salvo, in...
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Mark Glass | May 2, 2023
“Nona And Her Daughters” – TV review
“Nona And Her Daughters” (“Nona Et Ses Filles”) is a character-driven dramedy miniseries from French TV that successfully...
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Cate Marquis | March 31, 2023
ACIDMAN – Review
Thomas Haden Church gives a striking performance as a reclusive eccentric who is tentatively reconnecting with his grown...
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Jim Batts | January 19, 2023
THE SON – Review
With only 11 days left in the month, January cinema continues its two traditions. And no, it’s not...
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Cate Marquis | February 4, 2022
SUNDOWN – Review
Things are not always as they appear. In Mexican writer/director Michel Franco’s SUNDOWN, Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg...
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Cate Marquis | December 22, 2021
THE TENDER BAR – Review
Every family has some quirkiness but this one more than most, with Ben Affleck as a bartender uncle...
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Cate Marquis | December 3, 2021
HAND OF GOD – Review
Memory can be a powerful thing. The vivid autobiographical tale from Oscar-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino, THE HAND OF...
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Cate Marquis | November 12, 2021
BELFAST – Review
Kenneth Branagh gives us one of his best films, and his most personal, with BELFAST, a partly autobiographical...
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Cate Marquis | September 17, 2021
BLUE BAYOU – Review
Is it fair that a small child, legally adopted from another nation, is responsible for paperwork errors about...
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Cate Marquis | June 13, 2021
HERE WE ARE – Review
The soundtrack to Charlie Chaplin’s THE KID opens the father-son tale HERE WE ARE, award-winning Israeli director Nir...