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Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Oct 23, 2026 It’s a rather sweet film about the importance of mutual respect in relationships, especially those of a romantic nature. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Oct 23, 2026 the tension she captures between the kind of personal art Sofia wants to make versus the grandiosity of such a large production makes this a must-watch doc about the creative process. Go to Full Review Making Marie Antoinette (2026) 100% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Oct 17, 2026 I am sorry to report that this film is dreadful. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Oct 3, 2026 At first the film appears to be a reflection on exile and memory. . but soon the film reveals itself to be a journey inward Go to Full Review Traces of Home (2025) - - - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Oct 3, 2026 A mordant Victorian era chamber piece with a supernatural twist. . .think Edith Wharton’s ghost stories mixed with the feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Go to Full Review Séance (2024) 94% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Sep 2, 2026 I love a film that is unafraid to show how messy friendship can be, and how sometimes we grow apart from people we used to be inseparable from, while also sometimes finding ourselves becoming closer to others. Go to Full Review Take Care of My Cat (2001) 81% 82%

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Sep 2, 2026 "Made me appreciate her work even more than I already did" Go to Full Review Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026) 94% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Sep 2, 2026 The ultimate "match each other’s freak" movie. Go to Full Review Night Nurse (2026) 66% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Sep 2, 2026 Offers a glimpse at [Olivia Wilde's] immense range. Go to Full Review Meadowland (2015) 92% 65%

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Aug 8, 2026 Ultimately, I had fun with this film. . .[but] I think perhaps beyond what he shared with us himself, we should just let Anthony Bourdain remain unknowable. Go to Full Review Tony (2026) 93% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 Camp is a witchy sapphic fever dream of a film, equal parts The Craft and Lost Highway. Go to Full Review CAMP (2025) 89% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 That the film is shot by the great Hélène Louvart brings a tactile poetry to its imagery, to the sea, to the way that Simón blurs the present with the past. Go to Full Review Romería (2025) 92% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 A really honest and raw (and funny!) look at the way we grow (and stagnate) in relationships and how often we project onto others the responsibility we have towards engineering our own sense of happiness. Go to Full Review The Invite (2026) 96% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 What starts out as a promising feminist thriller slowly reveals itself to be an absolutely reprehensible and regressive twist on The Usual Suspects. Go to Full Review Unidentified (2025) 73% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 This might not be a groundbreaking film (it covers a lot of the same ground as something like The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love), but it sure is one made with a lot of care and love. Go to Full Review Girls Like Girls (2026) 88% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 If you ever wanted to see a star being born, you can see it here with Dickinson’s laconic, transfixing performance. Go to Full Review Beach Rats (2017) 85% 57%

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 I hated every character in this movie and didn’t really care about any of them. Go to Full Review Find Your Friends (2025) 49% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 Mehrel’s film is the kind of smart, charming, character-driven indie that struggles to find an audience in today’s film market. Go to Full Review Honeyjoon (2025) 90% - -

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 Harron’s attention to historical detail is wholly transporting, as it conjures both allure and degradation of The Factory. Go to Full Review I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) 79% 70%

Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jun 29, 2026 While the issues presented in this film are unique to the anti-Black racism in Tunisia and the greater migrant crisis in Africa, you can not only see parallels in pretty much every region of the world. Go to Full Review Promised Sky (2025) 86% - -