Reviews | Cinema St Louis

Identifying Features

Jan 26, 2021 | By Andrew Wyatt

A young blond woman dressed in a business outfit with blouse, jacket, and skirt sits on a lounge seat in a bar, apparently half asleep.

Promising Young Woman

Jan 22, 2021 | By Kayla McCulloch

A family consisting of a father, mother, and seven children of varying ages walk through a field of high grass and herbs, as a city looms in the background.

Acasa, My Home

Jan 20, 2021 | By Andrew Wyatt

Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León's 'The Wolf House' presents a nightmarish vision inspired by the real-world horrors of cult colony in Chile.

The Wolf House

Dec 22, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Audrey Hepburn behind the glamorous image is dissected in Helena Coan's 'Audrey: More Than an Icon'.

Audrey: More Than an Icon

Dec 21, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Mads Mikkelsen (center-left, front) is a high school teacher who experiments with perpetual inebriation in Thomas Vinterberg's 'Another Round'.

Another Round

Dec 17, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Atsuko Maeda (center) is a woman whose inner resolve is tested during a travel show shoot in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'To the Ends of the Earth'.

Double Take: Bright Future / To the Ends of the Earth

Dec 15, 2020 | By Joshua Ray

Gary Oldman (center, front) plays screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz in David Fincher's 'Mank'.

Mank

Dec 11, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Dan Beirne is a shoe-sniffing version of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in Matthew Rankin's 'The Twentieth Century'.

The Twentieth Century

Dec 8, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Aubrey Plaza is a filmmaker whose attempt at a creative retreat turns weird in Lawrence Michael Levine's 'Black Bear'.

Black Bear

Dec 4, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Markie Wenzel tries to resolve the challenges of her new and old lives in Matt Kliegman's 'Markie in Milwaukee'.

Markie in Milwaukee

Dec 3, 2020 | By Cait Lore

Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn (center front) and Michael Ward (center-left) hit the dance floor in 1980 London in Steve McQueen's 'Lovers Rock'.

Lovers Rock

Dec 1, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

A destructive wildfire tears through the Galician region of Spain in Oliver Laxe's 'Fire Will Come'.

Fire Will Come

Nov 25, 2020 | By Joshua Ray

Jessica Barden is a twentysomething in arrested development in Kelly Oxford's 'Pink Skies Ahead'.

Pink Skies Ahead

Oct 26, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Director Spike Lee gives cinematic form to a David Byrne (center front) performance in 'David Byrne's American Utopia'.

David Byrne's American Utopia

Oct 23, 2020 | By Joshua Ray

Fox Rich (left) waits (and fights) for her husband Rob's liberation in Garrett Bradley's 'Time'.

Time

Oct 16, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Julie Bowen (left) and Adam Sandler run afoul of a cruel, Halloween-obsessed town in Steven Brill's 'Hubie Halloween'.

Hubie Halloween

Oct 13, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Azure Skye is a woman on the verge in Dean Kapsalis' 'The Swerve'.

The Swerve

Oct 8, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt

Susan Sarandon (right front) is a matriarch who arranges to bring her family together one last time in Roger Michell's 'Blackbird'.

Blackbird

Sep 25, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Virginie Efira is a disillusioned psychotherapist who returns to writing and begins to lose herself in Justine Triet's 'Sibyl'.

Sibyl

Sep 17, 2020 | By Kayla McCulloch

Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's 'Space Dogs' follows a group of Moscow street dogs and meditates on the legacy of the Soviet space program's canine cosmonauts.

Space Dogs

Sep 17, 2020 | By Andrew Wyatt