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About Caroline Ely

Caroline Ely is a TV, movie, and art lover who worked for years in the television industry. Until a few years ago, she would have described herself as well traveled, and she hopes to live up to that description again very soon. She lives in New York and often heads to the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Medusa

    Candy-colored and stylized and often surreal as it is, the provocative Medusa contains a lot that feels very relevant right now.

    By |July 28th, 2022|Horror, Top Picks|0 Comments

      My Donkey, My Lover, & I

      A fizzy, feel-good comedy that believes in the goodness of the human heart, even if the brain attached is a little flighty.

      By |July 21st, 2022|Comedy, Romantic Comedy|0 Comments

        Murina

        A beautifully shot coming-of-age story set on the Croatian coast that makes some sharp observations about the perennial tensions within a family.

        By |July 8th, 2022|Family drama, Teen|0 Comments

          Lost Illusions

          A lush yet propulsive story of a writer’s rise and fall in 19th-century Paris that moves fast and is loads of fun.

          By |June 10th, 2022|Book adaptation, Top Picks|0 Comments

            A Chiara

            Calabrian life, as depicted here, moves in step with corruption that can be either purposefully pursued or casually accepted, but is always expected.

            By |June 10th, 2022|Crime, Italian|0 Comments

              Happening

              Few movies can be as topical right now as Happening. It plunges us back to the rotten old days when there were almost zero options out of an unwanted pregnancy.

              By |May 6th, 2022|French, Top Picks|0 Comments

                Anaïs in Love

                Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.

                By |April 29th, 2022|Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Top Picks|0 Comments

                  Hit the Road

                  A family heads for the Iranian borderlands in a story of flight and escape.

                  By |April 22nd, 2022|Road Trip|0 Comments

                    Paris, 13th District

                    Director Jacques Audiard goes lighter this time around with a study of reckless and sometimes feckless youth.

                    By |April 15th, 2022|French|0 Comments