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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mark Jenkin
Starring: Edward Rowe | Flo Crowe | Joe Gray | John Woodvine | Loveday Twomlow | Mary Woodvine
Jeff says: “ENYS MEN (i.e., ‘mane’, the phrase meaning stone island in Cornish, according to the Guardian) follows a naturalist through her daily ritual, each morning observing the soil temperature around and any change in the appearance of a cluster
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Raine Allen-Miller
Starring: Charlie Knight | David Jonsson | Poppy Allen-Quarmby | Simon Manyonda | Vivian Oparah
Chris says: “British writer-director Raine Allen-Miller’s widely praised feature debut has all the elements a good rom-com should (sharp screenplay, appealing leads w/chemistry, plenty of laughs) but also an actual perspective that’s deeply felt in everything from the visual design
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Director: Jeffrey A. Brown
Starring: Brendan Meyer | Lachlan Watson | Michele Hicks | Nick Sandow | Shunori Ramanathan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Timothy Scott Bogart
Starring: Jason Isaacs | Lyndsy Fonseca | Michelle Monaghan | Peyton List | Sebastian Maniscalco
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Anaïs Demoustier | Gilles Lellouche | Jean-Pascal Zadi | Oulaya Amamra | Vincent Lacoste
Chris says: “From the central conceit of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers-esque pastiche to a suitably slimy Serge Gainsbourg tune playing at the opening, this is pure, unfiltered Quentin Dupieux madness; also, he should really consider an origin prequel series
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Director: Sung-hyun Byun
Starring: Esom | Fahim Fazli | Hwang Jung-min | Jeon Do-yeon | Willis Chung
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Peter Murphy | Rachael Moriarty
Starring: Cillian O'Gairbhi | Lorcan Cranitch | Michelle Beamish | ríd Ní Neachtain | Ruadhán de Faoite
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Starring: arin Grigore | Judith State | Macrina Barladeanu | Orsolya Moldován | Rácz Endre
Diane says: “The latest from Cristian Mungiu, of 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS, R.M.N. Is like the titular MRI of the (diseased?) mind of Transylvania. In a small town, a flourishing industrial bakery has to import and house
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: André 3000 | Hong Chau | Lauren Lakis | Michelle Williams | Todd-o-Phonic Todd
Diane says: “Kelly Reichardt’s latest, starring Michelle Williams as a closed-up ceramic artist, satirizes the art school scene perfectly, from funky clothing and cheese-heavy gallery openings to parent-child competition and every kind of crafts class. (I saw it with my
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Nida Manzoor
Starring: Rekha John-Cheriyan | Renu Brindle | Ritu Arya | riya Kansara | Seraphina Beh
Diane says: “A colorful mashup of Jane Austen, martial arts, horror, and more, which for me failed. “High schooler Ria, an aspiring stuntwoman, is upset—very upset—when her older sister/bf Lena gives up on an art career and decides to marry
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Matt Johnson
Starring: Cary Elwes | Glenn Howerton | Jay Baruchel | Matt Johnson | Saul Rubinek
Amanda says: “BLACKBERRY is a biographical comedy-drama film that chronicles the captivating journey of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in Waterloo, Canada that starts in the late 1990’s. These two individuals played a pivotal role in shaping the extraordinary ascent
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Anthony Shim
Starring: Anthony Shim | Choi Seung-yoon | Dohyun Noel Hwang | Ethan Hwang | Hunter Dillon
Michael says: “Even though I wasn’t able to catch the IFFBoston’s much lauded closing night film, I ended my festival experience the night before with a very strong showing. This powerful tale of a Korean immigrant who comes to Canada
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Adolphus
Michael says: “It would be difficult for me not to like a documentary about Mary Tyler Moore, an actor and celebrity that I am obviously very well aware of, have enjoyed in many TV and movie appearances, but actually not
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Inna Sahakyan
Michael says: “A fascinating, beautifully recounted documentary about a teenaged girl who survived losing her family, enduring rape and slavery during the Armenian genocide, only to end up in the manipulative mechanisms of Hollywood. Aurora Mardiganian survived months of marching
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chie Hayakawa
Starring: Chieko Baisho | Hayato Isomura | Stefanie Arianne | Taka Takao | Yumi Kawai
Michael says: “The best speculative fiction can illuminate both flaws and beauty of the human condition,. Chie Hayakawa’s adaptation of a story by Jason Gray does this beautifully in a gentle but sobering examination of the worth of a human being
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Enno Trebs | Langston Uibel | Matthias Brandt | Paula Beer | Thomas Schubert
Chris says: “Two young Berliners, Leon (Thomas Schubert), a writer struggling to finish his novel and his friend Felix (Langston Uibel), a photographer, take a trip to a cabin in the woods near the Baltic Sea owned by Felix’s mother. Upon
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Starring: Anne Ramsay | Ezra Buzzington | Jeremy Holm | Larry Fessenden | Ron E. Rains
Brett says: “A person kills herself/himself and then a stage play breaks out. So, it’s Chekhov or Ibsen in reverse, right? Throw in a seance to bring back said dead person from the grave and BROOKLYN 45 might just fit
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Estefanía Contreras | Miguel Drake-McLaughlin | Silvia Del Carmen Castaños
Chris says: “Best friends Silva and Estefania (nicknamed ‘Beba’) are two teenagers in Laredo, Texas. They engage in typical activities for their age: hanging out at the convenience store parking lot, sneaking past the gates of vacant or abandoned homes, sitting
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Rating: 2 cats | 3 cats
Director: Mike Hansen
Starring: Mike Hansen | Raphael Sikic | Ryon Thomas
Brett says: “The genre western-comedy does not exactly have a long list of acclaimed representatives to its credit. In fact, the all-around rugged, image-conscious, hidden-emotions heroic quality of westerns usually means that attaching the word comedy to it is an
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