Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sara Dosa
Diane says: “I had shied away from this doc earlier, about a French vulcanologist couple who died in the line of work. But it is fantastic! Of course there are the mesmerizing shots of lava flow and eruptions, but also
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Brendan Fraser | Hong Chau | Sadie Sink | Samantha Morton | Ty Simpkins
Brett says: “Already before coming to theaters with a whole convoy of dump trucks’ worth of hype, THE WHALE is a film that, unfortunately, will fall flat for many who are expecting some sort of transformative cinematic experience. For others
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Ben Whishaw | Claire Foy | Frances McDormand | Jessie Buckley | Judith Ivey | Rooney Mara | Sheila McCarthy
Brett says: “WOMEN TALKING re-molds a world of an isolated religious community that is at least somewhat familiar to most North American audiences. It is a reshaping, reimagining of Mennonite society, even though the film is careful never to utter that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Machoian
Starring: Carl Kennedy | Clayne Crawford | Colt Crawford | Hix Crawford | Jordana Brewster
Brett says: “Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting toxic masculinity. “Following up a powerful success of THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS, director Robert Machoian returns with THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS, which tangles itself up into several knots of frustration,
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Director: Ayan Mukerji
Starring: Alia Bhatt | Amitabh Bachchan | Nagarjuna Akkineni | Ranbir Kapoor | Shah Rukh Khan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Starring: Bill Camp | Jim Caviezel | José Zúñiga | Kurt Fuller | Mira Sorvino
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Hallee Adelman | Sean King O'Grady
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Denis Ménochet | Hanna Schygulla | Isabelle Adjani | Khalil Ben Gharbia | Stefan Crepon
Chris says: “This is how you remake Fassbinder, gender-switched (or not): cast a boisterous lead (Denis Menochet) who could play him in a biopic and include a glorious running sight gag like poor, dear silent slave-twink Karl (Stefan Crepon). 4
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Director: Ben Parker
Starring: Barry Ward | Bill Milner | Charlotte Vega | Harriet Walter | Tom Felton
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Will Klipstine
Starring: Irene Bedard | Kate Luyben | Madeleine McGraw | Steve Monroe | Teal Redmann
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Régis Roinsard
Starring: Elisa Maillot | Grégory Gadebois | Romain Duris | Solan Machado Graner | Virginie Efira
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Andrew Baird
Starring: Colson Baker | Drea de Matteo | Kevin Bacon | Storm Reid | Travis Fimmel
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Matt Eskandari
Starring: Bruce Willis | Kevin Dillon | Oliver Trevena | Shelby Cobb | Texas Battle
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Tyler Cornack
Starring: Austin Lewis | Kevin Michael Moran | Olivia Herman | Shelby Dash
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Babak Anvari
Starring: George MacKay | Hugh Bonneville | Kelly Macdonald | Percelle Ascott | Varada Sethu
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Matthew Dyas
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Aly Muritiba
Starring: Antonio Saboia | Laila Garin | Pedro Fasanaro | Thomas Aquino | Zezita Matos
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.6
Director: Owen Kline
Starring: Daniel Zolghadri | Josh Pais | Maria Dizzia | Matthew Maher | Miles Emanuel
Julie says: “Whoa… okay so this one was quite the story! Dark and funny. I liked this one a lot! Story of a kid who wants to drop out of school to write comics (encouraged by his art teacher) to
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Director: Romain Quirot
Starring: Hugo Becker | Jean Reno | Lya Oussadit-Lessert | Paul Hamy | Philippe Katerine
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: M. Cahill
Starring: Brooke Bloom | Emily Kuroda | Jena Malone | Robert Hunger-Bühler | Will Rogers
