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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Adam Driver | Ben Affleck | Harriet Walter | Jodie Comer | Matt Damon
Thom says: “I certainly did not go into this film with any extraordinary expectations other than the presence of Adam Driver (and he is, as usual, impeccably brilliant). Director Ridley Scott has had a remarkably diverse career of such varied
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Haocun Liu | Wei Fan | Xiaochuan Li | Yan Li | Yi Zhang
Chris says: “SHADOW was Zhang Yimou’s best film in years; this follow-up is not as innovative, but it does feel faintly reminiscent of his smaller-scale 1990s dramas (his most fertile period), if perhaps a little goofier. Set in a remote area
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alli Haapasalo
Starring: Aamu Milonoff | Cécile Orblin | Eleonoora Kauhanen | Linnea Leino | Oona Airola | Sonya Lindfors
Chris says: “If the English title sounds a bit generic (the original Finnish one translates as GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS), rest assured, the film is not. Mostly set over three consecutive Fridays, it’s about three teenagers: Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and Rönkkö
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucia Small
Chris says: “By far not the first film about high school debate programs, Lucia Small’s documentary is surely the only one to focus primarily on female debaters. Shot over five years and using Newton South High School as its primary
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Morosini
Starring: Afrim Gjonbalaj | J.P. Edwards | Rachel Dratch | Seamus Callahan | Sheri Fairchild
Chris says: “If it seems outlandish that a young man’s estranged father could ‘catfish’ him as a young adult by posing as a young girl on a fake social media profile, well, it happened to actor/writer/director James Morosini and he’s
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alika Tengan
Starring: Jordan Cheng | Joshua Co | Lisette Marie Flanary | Reanna Barboza | Tyler Ebisuya
Chris says: “It feels too easy to label this as ‘Hawaiian Mumblecore’, even if that’s exactly what it is. The backstory is more interesting: Director Alika Tengan developed this around the real life circumstances of its star, Naz Kawakami, a
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Max Walker-Silverman
Starring: Benja K. Thomas | Dale Dickey | John Way | Michelle Wilson | Wes Studi
Chris says: “With her weathered face, Tennessee accent and general moxie, Dale Dickey is an actress who brings something inimitable to the table. This distinctness has relegated her to smaller, supporting parts and there’s nothing wrong with that. Still, just because
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Audrey Diwan
Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei | Kacey Mottet Klein | Louise Chevillotte | Louise Orry-Diquéro | Luàna Bajrami
Diane says: “Based on an autobiographical novel by this year’s Nobel prize winner, Annie Ernaux. And you thought 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS was as harrowing an abortion movie as you’d ever see. Director Audrey Diwan hews close to
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Director: Russell Owen
Starring: Gaia Weiss | Greta Scacchi | Jamie Marie Leary | Kate Dickie | Tom Hughes
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Keoni Waxman
Starring: Eric Dane | Leslie Uggams | Peter Facinelli | Stephen Louis Grush | Teri Polo
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Michael McGowan
Starring: Alison Pill | Amybeth McNulty | Donal Logue | Mare Winningham | Mimi Kuzyk | Sarah Gadon
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Daniel Raim
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Director: A.B. Zax
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Alessio Rigo de Righi | Matteo Zoppis
Starring: Bruno di Giovanni | Ercole Colnago | Gabriele Silli | Giovanni Morichelli | Maria Alexandra Lungu
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Bonnie Rodini
Starring: Erica Wessels | Marco Mintaka | Sven Ruygrok
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Carlos Cuarón
Starring: Francis Cruz | Manolo Cardona | Miguel Rodarte | Stephanie Cayo | Tony Dalton
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Adam Sigal
Starring: John Malkovich | Rosa Salazar | Scout Taylor-Compton | Shane West | Thomas Mann
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Camille Léon-Fucien | Jehnny Beth | Lucie Zhang | Makita Samba | Noémie Merlant
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Toby Meakins
Starring: Angela Griffin | Asa Butterfield | Eddie Marsan | Iola Evans | Robert Englund | Ryan Gage
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Brendan Muldowney
Starring: Abby Fitz | Dylan Fitzmaurice Brady | Elisha Cuthbert | Eoin Macken | Michael-David McKernan | Tara Lee
