Reviews by Joe Pollack

KWMU Theatre & Film Critic:
Joe Pollack

Joe Pollack has been KWMU's film and theater critic for 10 years. He also spent 23 years with the Post-Dispatch as its drama and movie critic, where he also began writing restaurant and wine columns.

Check out Joe's food review blog, St. Louis Eats.

"Live and Become" and "Then She Found Me"
Aired May 09, 2008
The French-Israeli drama, "Live and Become," is partly about a boy's search for his mother, while "Then She Found Me" involves a mother's search for her child, and while neither is perfect, both have moments that tug at the heart, and both have some excellent acting and direction.

Planet B-Boy
Aired May 06, 2008
Dance makes a great subject for motion pictures. Even break-dancing, to hip-hop music, can provide thrilling action, as shown in "Planet B-Boy," a documentary by Benson Lee that opened over the weekend.

Jersey Boys (Fox Theatre)
Aired April 29, 2008
"Jersey Boys," a Tony-winner as Best Musical, still is playing on Broadway, passing a thousand performances last week – and it can solve a Mother's Day gift problem. High energy, good stuff at the Fox through May 18.

"Harlem Duet" (St. Louis Black Rep) and "The Visitor"
Aired April 25, 2008
The Black Rep's "Harlem Duet," a taut, hard-hitting drama has characters with the same names, an inter-racial marriage and a lot of examination of racial issues from a Black perspective, and "The Visitor," a wonderful movie love story from writer-director Thomas McCarthy with a couple of stars in cameos, relative unknowns in the major roles. ("Harlem Duet" plays at the Grandel Theatre through May 18)