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Director: Jeanne Leblanc
Starring: Emilie Bierre | Judith Baribeau | Marianne Farley | Paul Doucet
Michael says: “The English translation of the harrowing film from Quebec is OUR OWN, which darkly conveys the complicit nature of the tight community in s small town in Quebec. After a traumatic factory fire that is responsible for the
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Director: Jamie Adams
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Chanel Cresswell | Charlotte Jo Hanbury | Dolly Wells | Eiza González | Nick Helm | Ruth Ollman | Tara Lee
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Director: Nancy Buirski
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Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Alfre Woodard | Anthony Carrigan | DeWanda Wise | Kevin Hart | Lil Rel Howery | Melody Hurd | Paul Reiser
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Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Cristina Chiriac | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Dounia Sichov | Fabio Pagano | Simon McBurney | Willem Dafoe
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Director: Jimmy Giannopoulos
Starring: Emory Cohen | Ewan McGregor | Jeremy Allen White | Lorraine Bracco | Shiloh Fernandez | Val Kilmer | Vincent Pastore | William Fichtner
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Director: Tyler Savage
Starring: Carla Valentine | Dusty Sorg | hristine Ko | Landry Allbright | Michael Lee Joplin | Scott Subiono | Vincent Van Horn
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Director: Jaco Bouwer
Starring: Alex van Dyk | Anthony Oseyemi | Carel Nel | Monique Rockman
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nanfu Wang
Cheryl says: “Absolutely harrowing, very brave filmmaking from director Nanfu Wang (ONE CHILD NATION), this doc is an essential chronicle of the origins of the virus. It’s literally like reliving what happened here, just when things are finally reopening. I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicol Ruiz Benavides
Starring: Claudia Devia | Cristóbal Ruiz | Gabriela Arancibia | Raúl López Leyton | Romana Satt | Rosa Ramírez
Michael says: “When Claudina’s husband of many years dies, she soon finds herself in a challenging predicament, having to go live with her daughter and grandson in the countryside of Chile where we was raised. In this small village, everyone
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Alexandre Bustillo | Julien Maury
Starring: Bakary Diombera | Mathilde Lamusse | Mériem Sarolie | Nassim Lyes | Sandor Funtek | Walid Afker
Brett says: “KANDISHA is another in a long line of recent folk horror spectre/demon films that dip into legends from underrepresented cultures. In this case, the concept is the summoning of a Moroccan half jinn/half woman/half ‘devil’ (that’s a disproportionate
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Aaron Bear
Chris says: “Microsoft programmer and pioneer Ric Weiland is surely worthy of a documentary, but this isn’t it. Feeling padded at just sixty minutes, it has the requisite tribute interviews and archival images of Weiland, but also a lot of unnecessary
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ted Stenson
Starring: Andrew Phung | Catherine Gell | Declan O'Reilly | Jay Morberg | Kim Faires | Paul Cowling | Reamonn Joshee
Brett says: “This debut feature film from director Ted Stenson carries a strong Wes Anderson influence with both long and full, stationary camera shots and deadpan humor that weaves together a host of characters in converging storylines. As the title
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robert Woods
Starring: Daniel Buckle | Evan Williams | Mary Soudi | Nadia Collins | Naomi Brockwell | St John Cowcher | Tristan McInnes
Brett says: “AN IDEAL HOST is a horror-comedy feature film debut from director Robert Woods that has cult classic written all over it. As part of many raucous midnight festival screening events, I must say that the audiences at those
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Peter Collins Campbell
Starring: Aubin Wise | Martha Brown | Morgan Campbell | Nate Wise | Odinaka Malachi Ezeokoli
Brett says: “‘This place isn’t like anything. It’s like the absence of things.’ “The debut feature film DIMLAND is Peter Collins Campbell’s exploration into lost youth and disappointment with idle maturity. Highly understated, the film guides audiences to its central
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Christopher Alender
Starring: AJ Bowen | Andrea Cortés | Brigitte Kali Canales | Julia Vera | Sal Lopez | Weston Meredith
Brett says: “This is a tale of possession lodged in brujeria lore in which protagonist Cristina is discovered by locals after visiting to report on local tribal customs in an isolated region of Veracruz. Immediately, she is taken into custody
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Wes Hurley
Starring: Dan Lauria | Hersh Powers | Jonathan Bennett | Lea DeLaria | Marya Sea Kaminski | Sera Barbieri | Tyler Bocock
Michael says: “This stylized autobiography of a precocious gay boy growing up in Russia, his mail-order bride mother, and their escape to American is sweet and clever, with a few awkward moments, but overall and entertaining jaunt. The first half
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Onur Tukel
Starring: Annie McCain Engman | Edward Carnevale | Kevin Corrigan | Max Casella | Natalie Carter | Richard Mark Jordan | Thomas Jay Ryan
Brett says: “From CATFIGHT director Onur Tukel comes a film generated out of the pandemic, and at the time of this writing, it sits at the top of the list among the many pandemic-inspired and topical films I’ve seen so far.
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Isaac Rathé
Starring: Aaron Hrastovec | Leo Yako | Lucas Tommy Youkhana
Brett says: “A do-it-yourself thriller-comedy that throws back to Spielberg’s made-for-television DUEL, this film is a microscopic budget first feature that tosses out the tractor-trailer vs. automobile and inserts a motorboat and kayak instead. The absurdity of that concept is
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Emily Branham
Chris says: “BeBe Zahara Benet won the first season of RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE, but that was back in 2009 when the show’s cultural footprint was comparatively microscopic to now. Although Benet has reemerged in the spotlight, thanks to a final four
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