LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE – Review by Martha K Baker

You can have your Marvel movies, your thrillers, and your animé, but every once in awhile, a dear little film about human connection matters even more. Love Is Love Is Love proves to be more than its parts. It nestles in with the basics — from the title’s love to grief, to humor, patience, and sisterhood.

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LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE – Review by Lois Alter Mark

The whole thing feels completely inauthentic and is full of platitudes but because the actors – who include Rita Wilson, Rosanna Arquette, Cybill Shepherd and Polly Draper – are so good, you just wish you could join them at the table to have a real conversation. At the very least, you wish writer/director Eleanor Coppola had written a better conversation for them to have.

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SHIVA BABY – Review by Lois Alter Mark

It says so much about Shiva Baby that audiences are calling it a horror movie although there is literally nothing violent or scary about it. What’s terrifying is college senior, Danielle, attending a shiva (a Jewish post-funeral ritual where mourners gather to eat and socialize at the home of the deceased) with her parents, only to be forced to deal with the yentas she grew up with and some unexpected guests including her sugar daddy, Max, and the wife and baby she didn’t know he had. Oh, and, also, her ex-girlfriend, Maya.

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SHIVA BABY – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

Watching college student Danielle endure a shiva that becomes her personal hell in the comedic drama Shiva Baby will trigger sparks of recognition in anyone who’s lived through similar gauntlets. Weddings, reunions, and even funerals often have that surface interaction with people we haven’t seen in ages and various insecurities underneath.

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