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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zachary Wigon
Starring: Christopher Abbott | Margaret Qualley
Brett says: “SANCTUARY explores power, identity, and trauma through a peculiar sexual relationship with a unique cinematic reality-bender format. There are only two featured characters, a dominant female sex worker and submissive male executive who finds himself struggling to find
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Aimee Lou Wood | Alex Sharp | Bill Nighy | Lia Williams | Tom Burke | Zoe Boyle
Brett says: “Bill Nighy plays Mr. Williams in an English adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s IKIRU. Mr. Williams has been a proper gentleman bureaucrat during his many years employed at the County Hall office. The tradeoff is that it has been
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Daniel Craig | Dave Bautista | Edward Norton | Ethan Hawke | Jessica Henwick | Kate Hudson | Kathryn Hahn
Brett says: “KNIVES OUT scratched an itch in audiences that they may have not known they even had when the first film in the franchise revived a standard for classic murder mystery characters in a refreshing new standard of modern
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Bedwani
Thom says: “This is certainly going to be one of the most fun reviews to write ever (or so I thought). When my brother Chuk and I moved from Fell Street to our wonderful new apartment on Laguna Street, the
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Director: Bogdan George Apetri
Starring: Cezar Antal | Emanuel Parvu | Ioana Bugarin | Ovidiu Crisan | Valeriu Andriuta
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Starring: Ariela Barer | Forrest Goodluck | Kristine Froseth | Lukas Gage | Sasha Lane
Brett says: “In what promises to be one of the most distinctive films of the year, director Daniel Goldhaber follows up his uniquely effective thriller CAM with another one-of-a-kind thriller, this one affiliated with the cause of environmental activism. The
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: David Bradley | Jesse Akele | Jessica Baglow | Paul Butterworth | Ray Burnet
Brett says: “A few scenes into ALLELUJAH, it might become apparent that this could function as a stage play, and—of course—that is because it is actually based on a stage play. The film is heavily reliant upon the performances of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marie Clements
Starring: Alyssa Wapanatâhk | Grace Dove | Karine Vanasse | Phillip Lewitski | Rémy Girard
Brett says: “Sometimes the power and outreach of an artistic venture is more important than the attempt to measure or ‘rate’ the art within. BONES OF CROWS is a timely piece that narrates intergenerational tragedy after tragedy among a family
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jalmari Helander
Starring: Jack Doolan | Jorma Tommila | ksel Hennie | Mimosa Willamo | Onni Tommila
Brett says: “According to the film, SISU is a word that has no clear translation but one that reflects undeterred courage and determination when all hope is on the chopping block. This Finnish film from RARE EXPORTS director Jalmari Helander
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Director: Eric Appel
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe | Evan Rachel Wood | Julianne Nicholson | Quinta Brunson | Rainn Wilson
Brett says: “The hype that preceded the concept of an Al Yankovic biopic was justifiably darn near celestial by its very nature, especially when practically everyone—filmmakers and audiences alike—have been in on the gag from day one that this is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hlynur Palmason
Starring: Birta Gunnarsdóttir | Friðrik Friðriksson | Hilmar Guðjónsson | Ingvar Sigurdsson | Ísar Svan Gautason
Brett says: “A very ambitious and breathtaking film, director Hlynur Pálmason’s third (and best) feature film to date goes for a full blown epic on the topic of colonialism, setting the film GODLAND in the 19th century during the dawn of photography.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Elena López Riera
Starring: Alberto Olmo | Bárbara Lennie | Luna Pamiés | Nieve de Medina
Brett says: “This first feature from director Elena López Riera is part fable within a fable in which a small Valencia village is ravaged by generational floods. The legend behind the floods framing the story within is tied to a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jay Burleson
Starring: Allison Shrum | Darius Willis | K.J. Baker | Kansas Bowling | Poppy Cunningham | Taylor Smith
“Slasher films are a dime a dozen, so when an authentic standout rears its intimidating, masked head lurking from the shadows, it would be … criminal not to give such a film(s) its proper due. “THE THIRD SATURDAY IN OCTOBER
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Director: Ham Tran
Starring: Dom Dinh | Dustin Vuong Nguyen | Elyse Dinh | Ivan Mok | Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja | Tom Dang
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Calam Lynch | Jack Lowden | Jeremy Irvine | Kate Phillips | Tom Blyth
Chris says: “Along with his other poet biopic A QUIET PASSION, Terence Davies is clearly on a late-career high; also his most deliciously bitchy film to date, and it doesn’t even have Laura Linney in it. (I’ll have more to
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Director: Niels Mueller
Starring: Bill Heck | Braden Andersen | Cooper J. Friedman | David Sullivan | Kristen Johnston
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Director: Chloe Okuno
Starring: Burn Gorman | Gabriela Butuc | Karl Glusman | Maika Monroe | Tudor Petrut
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Don McKellar | Kristen Stewart | Léa Seydoux | Lihi Kornowski | Nadia Litz | Scott Speedman | Viggo Mortensen
Brett says: “David Cronenberg returns to his ‘Cronenbergian ways’ in this film full of his body horror, shock and awe oddities that delight some, deter others, and appall … well, everyone. That’s not to say CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is
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Director: Fernando González Gómez | Raúl Cerezo
Starring: Cecilia Suárez | Cristina Alcázar | Paula Gallego | Ramiro Blas | Yao Yao
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Director: Ayumu Watanabe
Starring: Cocomi | Ikuji Nakamura | Izumi Ishii | Natsuki Hanae | Shinobu Ôtake
