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Review: Steve McQueen’s World War II Epic Blitz Offers a Moving, if Overly Generic, Fable of Wartime Resiliency

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  • Lisa Trifone
  • November 8, 2024
    • Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: Chicago International Film Festival Recap—What We Saw and What to Watch For

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • October 29, 2024
    • Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: Sentimental Stories and a Powerful Saoirse Ronan Performance at Sundance Film Festival

    Our latest Sundance Film Festival reviews continue; read all our coverage of the 2024 Sundance film Festival now. Ghostlight Once of the most heartfelt (yet not overly sentimental) films at […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 29, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: See How They Run Is a Lightweight Mystery with Just Enough Charm

    Meant to be a lighthearted romp, much like the production portrayed in the play being put on within the movie, See How They Run finds ways to be frothy without […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 16, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Filmmaker Wes Anderson Goes Full-Tilt Wes Anderson in Charming, Quirky The French Dispatch

    The French Dispatch

    Filmmaker Wes Anderson, with 10 feature films to his name (his 11th is in production), has become such a known quantity that those keeping track of these things know relatively […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • October 22, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Dominic Cooke on Re-Teaming with Benedict Cumberbatch on The Courier, Patriotism and Making an Emotional Spy Movie

    Dominic Cooke

    In 2016, for the second season of the groundbreaking British mini-series The Hollow Crown (adaptations of Shakespeare’s royalty-based history plays), director Dominic Cooke cast Benedict Cumberbatch to play one of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Disappointing Ammonite Keeps Leads Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan from Digging Very Deep

    Ammonite

    I spent most of my time watching writer/director Francis Lee’s (God’s Own Country) new film Ammonite in awe of its lead character, Mary Anning (Kate Winslet). She’s a reserved but well-respected, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 13, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Review: Filmmaker Greta Gerwig Creates A New Classic in Fresh, Delightful Adaptation of Little Women

    Little Women

    You may be thinking, for any number of reasons, that a new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is not a great idea, and therefore you aren’t planning […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 24, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Review: Two Strong Performances Carry a Shaky Mary Queen of Scots

    Mary Queen of Scots

    There is little doubt in this most recently telling of the life and death of Mary Stuart (here portrayed by Saoirse Ronan), the ambitious Queen of Scotland, eager to build […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 13, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Saoirse Ronan Revisits Ian McEwan’s Lush, Repressed World in On Chesil Beach

    On Chesil Beach

    Saoirse Ronan arrived in Joe Wright’s 2007 adaptation of Ian McEwan’s heartbreaking novel Atonement. Now, she returns a decade later to a McEwan work in On Chesil Beach, adapted for the screen […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 25, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Seagull Lacks Passion, Despite a Strong Cast

    The first of two new films starring Saoirse Ronan coming out this month (On Chesil Beach arrives next week in Chicago), this adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull doesn’t add […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 18, 2018
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