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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Tracey Deer
Starring: D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai | Joel Montgrand | Kiawentiio | Paulina Alexis | Rainbow Dickerson | Violah Beauvais
Chris says: “An account of the 1990 land crisis between the Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, BEANS is told through the perspective of its 12-year-old protagonist (whose nickname is the film’s title.) Based on filmmaker Tracey
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Rating: 3.7 cats
Director: Joe Denardo | Paul Felten
Starring: Catherine Cohen | Chloe Sevigny | Christian Parenti | Eleanor Friedberger | Emily Tremaine | Scott Shepherd | Stephanie Hayes
Bob says: “Imagine what we’d get if David Lynch tried his hand at Mumblecore. I think it might be similar to SLOW MACHINE, which thematically seems to be playing with questions of identity and performance. “Stephanie, a Swedish actor living in
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Bassam Tariq
Starring: Aiysha Hart | Alyy Khan | Anjana Vasan | Kiran Sonia Sawarm | Nabhaan Rizwan | Riz Ahmed | Sudha Bhuchar
Toni says: “Riz Ahmed collaborated with a co-writing credit, with director Bassam Tariq, writing all of the songs on Mogul Mowgli, which explores similar themes to his previous SOUND OF METAL. In MOGUL MOWGLI, he plays an aspiring rapper Zed,
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Director: Jason Mac
Starring: Gregory Alan Williams | Isaiah Stratton | Jason Mac | Josh Henry | Kurt Yue | Michael Aaron Milligan | Rebeca Robles | Tobin Bell
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kirk Caouette
Starring: Andrea Stefancikova | Kirk Caouette | Michael Kopsa. Milan Stefancik | Zak Santiago
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Director: Michael Lembeck
Starring: Alec Mapa | Ann-Margret | Christopher Lloyd | Ellen Burstyn | French Stewart | James Caan | Jane Curtin | Loretta Devine
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Prano Bailey-Bond
Starring: Adrian Schiller | Michael Smiley | Niamh Algar | Nicholas Burns | Sophia La Porta | Vincent Franklin
Jeff says: “A woman charged with walking a fine line in deciding which of the scenes in the continuously and uniformly brutal movies she evaluates cross that line and must be cut is asked to watch one from a legendary
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Director: Patrick White
Starring: Ava Preston | Eric Osborne | Jamie Bloch | Kaelen Ohm | Krista Marchand | Nabil Rajo
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Nabil Elderkin
Starring: Amber Heard | Charlie Plummer | Jacob Latimore | John Corbett | Jonathan Majors | Kelvin Harrison Jr. | Robin Givens | Terrence Howard
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.25
Director: Daniel Sanchez Lopez
Starring: Alexandros Koutsoulis | Matthew James Morrison
Cheryl says: “Although it can easily been compared to both Andrew Haigh’s WEEKEND and Richard Linklater’s BEFORE series, for me this beautifully shot film felt more like an early Godard meditation on life, love, and sex. Harry, played by Matthew
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Lee
Starring: Gretchen Mol | Ilana Glazer | Josh Hamilton | Justin Theroux | Lucy Walters | Pierce Brosnan
Michael says: “In the tradition of a creepy, slow burn horror/thriller, FALSE POSITIVE successfully balances the dark tone with a lighter b-horror tone to tell a story of genetics and the patriarchy out of control. What starts off as bit
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Keijser
Starring: Ayham Abou Ammar | Hatem Ali | Kathryn Kirkpatrick | Mark Camacho | Mark Hachem | Najlaa Al Khamri | Yara Sabri
Michael says: “This gentle story about a Syrian refugee family who find refuge and success in Nova Scotia is based on a true story, and reminiscent thematically of the Broadway music, Come from Away. After the bombing of the family
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ayten Amin
Starring: Basmala Elghaiesh | Bassant Ahmed | Carol Ackad | Hagar Mahmoud | Hussein Ghanem | Sarah Shedid
Michael says: “In SOUAD, writer/director Ayten Amin examines the inherent dichotomy of conservative religion and social media. The film centers on a pair of sister, Souad and Rabab living in a small city north of Cairo, in a two-act structure
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Vivian Kleiman
Michael says: “Vivian Kleiman’s documentary about the emergence of queer comics as an underground force, and eventually as a mainstream pop offering, is a good introduction to the subject. It mainly focuses on some of the pioneers who started the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ziyang Zhou
Starring: Tumen | Xuan Huang | Zishan Yang
Michael says: “Easy money and investments gone wrong power this downward spiral of a film about Yang Hua, a young man flexing his entrepreneurial spirit to make some big money. His first plan, a dinosaur park on the outskirts of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gaysorn Thavat
Starring: Amelie Baynes | Angus Stevens | Erroll Shand | Essie Davis | Ryan O'Kane | Thomasin McKenzie
Michael says: “Essie Davis is on a roll with portrayals of fierce but flawed mothers protecting their children. She made a big impression in THE BABADOOK, then followed that up with BABYTEETH. Now she tops THE JUSTICE OF BUNNY KING,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Leon
Starring: Claire Buchanan | David Ajala | Lauren Colasanti | Maya Hawke | Simon Brickner | Taylor Clanton | Vanessa Kirby
Michael says: “This is a curious, nearly experimental film that rides mainly on the strength of Vanessa Kirby’s performance. In a dreamlike sojourn through a New York City night, Kirby plays Alina Reynolds, a writer of a collection of short
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Noah Dixon | Ori Segev
Starring: Abdul Seidu | Bobbi Kitten | Drew Johnson | Nick Samson | Rachel Keefe | Sylvie Mix
Michael says: “POSER starts off promisingly enough, with Lennon, a introverted young woman who starts a podcast to profile the indie musicians populating the vibrant Columbus, OH music scene. She attends shows and interviews a variety of musicians, adding in
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Amber Sealey
Starring: Aleksa Palladino | Christian Clemenson | Elijah Wood | Luke Kirby | Robert Patrick
Michael says: “I’m not a fan of movies about serial killers, and I have no interest generally, in getting into their heads to see how their minds work. However I was drawn to Amber Sealey’s NO MAN OF GOD, a
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Delmar Washington
Starring: Bill Engvall | Diamond White | Hart Denton | Loren Gray | Rutina Wesley | Shane West | Skylan Brooks
Michael says: “I don’t see a lot of films about UFO abductions, but NO RUNNING was certainly no THE VAST OF NIGHT. Both films borrow from earlier genres… VAST the radio syndicated program, and NO RUNNING B-movie science fiction, but
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