Marya E. Gates
Movie Reviews

Common Ground movie review & film summary (2023)

Hokey narrative framing aside, the film does little to share actions with viewers that they can take if they are so moved. In a world

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Fair Play movie review & film summary (2023)

Although they can both technically do this job and are equally committed to doing the work, it’s clear early on that her instincts,

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My Sailor, My Love movie review (2023)

Grace is at least given a much richer personal history, which is slowly teased out. At first, it seems she is just overprotective

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Carpet Cowboys movie review & film summary (2023)

MacKenzie and Collier set the scene with evocative imagery of the complex machinery that makes these carpets, weaving thousands of threads into the

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Heart of Stone movie review & film summary (2023)

A lifeless Sophie Okonedo plays her boss, Nomad, who recruited her when she was 20 years old. Why? We have no idea! Did she

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Acting Magic: Alan Arkin (1934-2023) | Tributes

Perhaps the greatest surprise in his career was his Oscar-nominated turn as John Singer, a deaf mute in the 1968 adaptation of Carson

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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Maryam Touzani on The Blue Caftan | Interviews

The day she gave it to me, I realized how beautiful it was to own this piece because I had a feeling in

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Maybe I Do movie review & film summary (2023)

Set throughout two nights (plus a coda scene at the end), Jacobs’ film can never shake its stage roots, introducing its six protagonists

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Female Filmmakers in Focus: Jane Campion on Power of the Dog | Interviews

You’ve really worked in this industry through I think a large transition in terms of the way it treats women making films presently

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Bending History: Marie Kreutzer on Corsage | Interviews

George MacDonald’s The Light Princess book is a big theme throughout the film. I found that story and the various iterations really fascinating. I

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