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Abby Olcese

Abby Olcese

Abby Olcese is a film critic and pop culture writer. In addition to writing for Crooked Marquee, she is also the film editor at The Pitch magazine. Her work has appeared in Sojourners Magazine, Birth. Movies. Death., SlashFilm and more. She lives in Kansas City.

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Watch This: <i>A Hidden Life, Stargirl</i>
Abby Olcese

Watch This: A Hidden Life, Stargirl

Mar 17th, 2020
Since the quick escalation of response to the Coronavirus pandemic, it’s become almost cliche to talk about what you’re streaming these days....
Review: <i>The Hunt</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: The Hunt

Mar 12th, 2020
Exploitation movies are quick, dirty, gory fun. They’re also usually in questionable taste, which is part of their lowbrow entertainment value....
Crooked Marquee’s True/False Film Fest 2020 Diary
Abby Olcese

Crooked Marquee’s True/False Film Fest 2020 Diary

Mar 10th, 2020
The True/False documentary film festival is like Disneyland for non-fiction filmmaking. For one weekend every year, the small college town of...
Review: <i>Onward</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: Onward

Mar 5th, 2020
With each new Pixar release, there’s a temptation to immediately see where it ranks. How does it stack up to The Incredibles’ sophistication and...
Review: <i>The Invisible Man</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: The Invisible Man

Feb 27th, 2020
Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man feels like three kinds of genre films melded together. One is a thriller about escaping an abusive...
Review: <i>The Call of the Wild</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: The Call of the Wild

Feb 19th, 2020
The Call of the Wild will be the first encounter for some viewers (including this one) with the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios - formerly 20th...
Review: <i>The Photograph</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: The Photograph

Feb 13th, 2020
The Photograph is a movie that feels needlessly unsure of the story it wants to tell. Stella Meghie's romance is, at times, a drama about the...
Review: <i>Portrait of a Lady on Fire</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Feb 12th, 2020
It’s significant that Portrait of a Lady on Fire is written and directed by a woman--Celine Sciamma--as well as photographed by a female...
Review: <i>Come to Daddy</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: Come to Daddy

Feb 5th, 2020
Knowing a little about Come to Daddy’s creative pedigree is probably the biggest indicator of your potential reaction to this wild and bizarre...
Review: <i>Dolittle</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: Dolittle

Jan 16th, 2020
Perhaps the most infuriating thing about Dolittle is that somewhere beneath its inappropriate jokes, poorly developed characters and Robert Downey...
Review: <i>1917</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: 1917

Jan 9th, 2020
If cinema is, as Roger Ebert famously put it, a machine that generates empathy, the camera is its motor. What a director, editor, and...
Review: <i>Cats</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: Cats

Dec 19th, 2019
Tom Hooper’s Cats announced what kind of movie it was going to be when the first trailer dropped this summer. The first image of Jennifer Hudson...
Review: <i>Bombshell</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: Bombshell

Dec 9th, 2019
The story of Bombshell was always going to be difficult to master tonally. It’s a movie about the female employees of Fox News who accused founder...
Review: <i>In Fabric</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: In Fabric

Dec 4th, 2019
Peter Strickland has always been a filmmaker on his own wavelength, making uniquely crafted movies like Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of...
Review: <i>Knives Out</i>
Abby Olcese

Review: Knives Out

Nov 24th, 2019
Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is both a loving tribute to the murder mystery genre and a scathing satire of white privilege and the bootstrapping myth...
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