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July 2022

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Woman on the Verge: A Brilliant Rebecca Hall in Harrowing Psychological Thriller Resurrection

by Lee Shoquist
July 28, 2022

Resurrection is fascinating in what it has to say about motherhood, regret, different generations of women, relationships of manipulation and abuse, and how a person may go on from real life horror to create a different life, image, new persona, be outwardly successful but…

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Jordan Peele’s Nope is Smart and Enjoyable–Until it Deflates in its Second Half

by Lee Shoquist
July 28, 2022

It’s easy to appreciate the picture’s pointed satirical declarations about the movie industry: that people of color are often cast to the wayside in a white dominated industry, that today's dependence on digital movie technology should be discarded in favor of traditional shot-on-film cameras,…

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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris with Endearing Results Courtesy of Marvelous Manville

by Lee Shoquist
July 24, 2022

The great Leslie Manville headlines a loving picture suggesting the impact that a simple person of good values and compassion can make in the world, in unexpected ways, unlikely places and with people from different realms who share the same values.…

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Don’t Make (Them) Go: Hannah Marks and Mia Isaac on Poignant Father-Daughter Road Movie

by Lee Shoquist
July 15, 2022

I caught up with Hannah Marks and Mia Isaac for a chat on the film’s multiple, ambitious agendas and their enthusiasm about their futures, which appear limitless, in the American movie industry.…

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2022 Mid-Year Review: Movies are Back, and in a Big Way

by Lee Shoquist
July 11, 2022

It is difficult to believe that only two short years ago theatrical exhibition was writing its obituary during lockdowns as studios pulled or postponed their theatrical slates in favor of new distribution models, premiering first-run pictures simultaneously, or altogether, on streaming platforms and radically…

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Thor: Love and Thunder
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Thor: Love and Thunder Overdoses on Comic Self-Satisfaction at the Expense of Substance (and the Audience)

by Lee Shoquist
July 9, 2022

The extent to which one enjoys Thor: Love and Thunder, will depend upon a tolerance for an overplayed hand of wink-wink, nudge-nudge so broad as to suggest that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent aspiring to little else than a trivial wank.…

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About Me

Lee Shoquist is a film critic and member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and leads over 20 monthly film discussion groups with more than three hundred, multi-generational attendees across the Chicago area and periodically in New York and Los Angeles. Learn more or contact Lee.

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