Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 0 cats
Director: HKimo Stamboel | Timo Tjahja
Kyle says: “KILLERS is available in a censored 126-minute version, but this is the full monty. Even the helpless negligee-clad young Japanese female, being chased through the woods by a killer with a pillow case over his head, is subtitled,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Kriv Stenders
Jason says: “True to its title, KILL ME THREE TIMES makes multiple passes through the story – once with a flash-forward to the end, once in basic fashion, and once in more detail – but this jumping back and forth
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Kyle says: “KIDNAPPING MR. HEINEKEN is an entirely forgettable ersatz crime film whose plot is contained in the title, and yes, it’s about THAT Mr. Heineken, played by Anthony Hopkins. The trivia section on the IMDB listing is more interesting
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Roger Allers
Jason says: “KAHLIL GIBRAN’S THE PROPHET is a labor of love for producer Salma Hayek, and like a fair number of those projects, it’s got some rough edges as the desire to realize a complicated project within a window of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Barber
Jason says: “THE KEEPING ROOM is a nicely-built little thriller that takes place during the American Civil War and which uses the details of that period so well in moving the action forward that some might miss what makes it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andy Wachowski | Lana Wachowski
Thom says: “The most noted element of seeing this film is that now I can start my 2015 Film List as it was my first 2015 film. The Wachowski siblings (brother & now sister) are revered by quite a few
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: David O. Russell
Diane says: “Saw this one despite poor reviews. With Jennifer Lawrence in the lead, it can’t be all bad, right? Wrong! One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Lack of momentum in the story, dull characters, flat tone. Scenes
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Janet Chun Siu-jan
Jason says: “China seems to be producing a lot of movies like A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME WITH ANTHONY (slightly less unwieldy than the film’s Mandarin title, PEI AN DONG NI DU GUO MAN CHANG SUI YUE) lately, plucked from the
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Sanjay Gupta
Jason says: “I don’t know a lot about Bollywood, but there are a few names I recognize. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, top star often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful women and returning from a long maternity break; Irrfan
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Jason says: “JAUJA opens with an explanation of the title, a mythological land that was always somewhere over the horizon in Patagonia, although these things are always exaggerated. That’s probably the right ‘it’s not really totally real’ attitude to have
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Brett says: “In horror, in action/adventure, and in thrillers, the keystone premise of an external conflict that threatens protagonist(s) to an hyperbolic degree is one that has been recycled and reinvented many times in many different ways and always with
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Albert Maysles
Julie says: “For any child of a mother who was a collector of art, and art from other countries, jewelry and clothing this is a must see! For anyone else who enjoys collecting, design, art, clothing and / or good
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Emayatzy Corinealdi | Lindsay Burdge | Logan Marshall-Green | Michiel Huisman | Tammy Blanchard
Jason says: “That I was asking myself when the stabbing was going to start fairly early on in THE INVITATION implies bad things, either about my character or the filmmakers’ performance in terms of telling a story that, in fact,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Trevor Iuras
Jason says: “THE INTERIOR seemingly starts as an one thing and stays that way for roughly the first third, when the title comes up, the scene shifts, and the main character re-appears with a new look and direction, as if
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ursula Dabrowsky
Jason says: “Ursula Dabrowsky directs the heck out of INNER DEMON, not just because it keeps going despite having a small cast and what seems like some tight constraints where locations and other resources are concerned, but because she pulls
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brett Haley
Jason says: “Thing to ponder: I can put a note in my phone or computer that says ‘revisit I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS twenty-five years from now’, and it could follow me from device to device over that time,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chad M. Walker | Dave LaMattina
Jason says: “There was another documentary about the man behind one of ‘Sesame Street’s’ most beloved Muppets a couple years back, and even before it certain allegations (most later rescinded) were made, it didn’t really feel like BEING ELMO gave the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Barry Levinson
Kyle says: “THE HUMBLING has impeccable credentials: It is based upon a 2009 novel by Philip Roth, it is co-scripted by Buck Henry, it is directed by Barry Levinson, and it stars Al Pacino as a once-upon-a-time famous actor who
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Nathan Ambrosioni
Jason says: “HOSTILE is probably the ultimate example of the dilemma one faces when reviewing the independent/amateur films that play festivals, where on the one hand the critic wants to tell potential viewers that they’ve probably got better options in
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Xu Zheng
Jason says: “Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour made seven ROAD TO… movies between 1940 and 1962, though this series was not sequels so much as a chance to make selling the audience similar plots on a regular basis
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