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June 2026

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Carolina Caroline: A Radiant Samara Weaving Powers Affecting Fugitive Love Story

by Lee Shoquist
June 6, 2026

The best movie characters tend to stay with you after the closing credits, and in Carolina Caroline, Samara Weaving gives us one that really lingers. As a Texas dreamer turned lovestruck outlaw in Adam Carter Rehmeier’s renegade road movie, Weaving balances romantic abandon and…

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“It Was Always a Love Story”: Adam Carter Rehmeier on Carolina Caroline’s Road, Romance and Robberies

by Lee Shoquist
June 5, 2026

I knew Carolina Caroline had left its mark when I couldn’t stop thinking about its title character after my first viewing. On the second screening, I plugged into the rhythms of its central relationship and almost melancholic country-and-western lyricism, and the way star Samara…

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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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