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Martha K. Baker

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DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) 66% EDIT “The animation from Disney Movietoons studio sparkles.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Postcards From the Edge (1990) 83% EDIT “Postcards From the Edge is hardly a sob story, and not a "woman's movie" from the '40s. It's very savvy and snotty and a little sexy, too.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Cassandro (2023) 91% EDIT “It's a curiosity.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Sep 28, 2023 Full Review The Lesson (2023) 77% EDIT “It is enjoyable right up until the moment a viewer says, "Hold the phone." Once that thought enters the critical mind, it's hard to crawl back into the set-up.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Jul 19, 2023 Full Review The Great Outdoors (1988) 42% EDIT “"The Great Outdoors" succeeds as a perfect summer's movie: not too deep, not too long, not too verbally witty or politically witty, not too embarrassing, not too sexy. Just a good time in air conditioning.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jun 16, 2023 Full Review The Thief Collector (2022) 91% EDIT “Complex and stinging, and funny and innovative. ” – KDHX (St. Louis) Jun 1, 2023 Full Review Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) 99% EDIT “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie is a marvel on many levels, starting with the short kid who became a superstar and ending with an honest and grateful man who cannot hold still.” – KDHX (St. Louis) May 25, 2023 Full Review Showing Up (2022) 89% EDIT “If just showing up claims more than half of the road to success, then Kelly Reichardt proves the cliche in Showing Up, a film that balances the starry with the earthy.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Apr 28, 2023 Full Review The Lost King (2022) 77% EDIT “Hawkins perfectly portrays this fragile woman, toughened by the overbearing professors of Leister University. Coogan is believable as her supportive ex. Mark Addy plays one of the few men on her side.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Mar 29, 2023 Full Review Moving On (2022) 73% EDIT “Its flaws as a tragi-comedy are visible, but its stars, script, and especially its purposes make it worthy.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Mar 23, 2023 Full Review The Quiet Girl (2022) 97% EDIT “As in Keegan's novels, every word, every crystalline scene counts in The Quiet Girl. Each must be heard and seen with precision. When that cookie is set on the table in an insert shot, it is not just a cookie. It is a stealth symbol. It is everything.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Mar 15, 2023 Full Review You People (2023) 39% EDIT “You People doesn't work because it works too hard.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Feb 3, 2023 Full Review Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022) 93% EDIT “Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical thrives on color, song and dance, impressive acting, and cunning camera work.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Jan 6, 2023 Full Review A Man Called Otto (2022) 70% EDIT “If you saw the Swedish version, the American version repeats the sadness swirling with the hopeful. It's a story about loneliness versus community, neighbors, and the village it takes. And it's sweet and dear.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Jan 5, 2023 Full Review Pelosi in the House (2022) 86% EDIT “Alexandra Pelosi's homage includes warming humor, but, most of all, it includes Nancy Pelosi's knowing voice and electric self.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) 85% EDIT “The rest is pretty darn funny -- and weird. What else did you expect?” – KDHX (St. Louis) Nov 18, 2022 Full Review Till (2022) 96% EDIT “Till is a powerful movie. Its strength rises not just from the story of racism it tells, for the background story has been told often, and not just from its unique perspective, but also from its stunning presentation in film form.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Oct 27, 2022 Full Review The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022) 35% EDIT “In addition to canny flashbacks and one flashside, Canosa juxtaposes the bookstore's cluttered, claustrophobic setting with Cape Cod's luxurious ocean views, shot by Alex Vendler.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Oct 13, 2022 Full Review What We Leave Behind (2022) 100% EDIT “Filmmaker Iliana Sosa created a poignant portrait of one old man in What We Leave Behind. The old man is Sosa's grandfather.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Oct 6, 2022 Full Review Nothing Compares (2022) 99% EDIT “What Nothing Compares proves is Sinéad O'Connor's courage and integrity.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Oct 6, 2022 Full Review Clerks III (2022) 63% EDIT “The film plows into the psyche of grief, but there's still plenty of goofiness in word and deed.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Sep 24, 2022 Full Review Confess, Fletch (2022) 86% EDIT “St. Louis' Jon Hamm pulls off the role, making like Groucho.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Sep 23, 2022 Full Review Kaepernick & America (2022) 93% EDIT “[Walker and Hockrow] show the political culture of the times, from Donald Trump's rise in 2016 to Robert E. Lee's statue's fall. Walker brings all his good sense to this film, having produced the brilliant Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Sep 8, 2022 Full Review Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022) 72% EDIT “[Writer/director Adamma Ebo] keeps her thumb on the scale of satire, pressing from comedy to darkness beyond anything that Christopher Guest managed in his mockumentaries.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Sep 8, 2022 Full Review Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) 71% EDIT “It is a maxim of good writing to show rather tell. That rule applies especially to telling stories. But what about a movie based on the art of story-telling? ... Breaking this rule causes Three Thousand Years of Longing to be sadly mediocre.” – KDHX (St. Louis) Sep 8, 2022 Full Review
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