Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Director: Miguel Gomes
Starring: Cláudio da Silva | Crista Alfaiate | Gonçalo Waddington | Jorge Andrade | Lang Khê Tran
Laks says: “I found Miguel Gomes’ GRAND TOUR to be a very interesting and outside-the-box type of modern film. I’m a huge fan of silent cinema and early cinema, so it resonated with me for that reason, as it’s definitely influenced
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Director: Ben Braun | Chiaki Yanagimoto
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dane Clark | Linsey Stewart
Starring: Charlie Gillespie | Michaela Watkins | Sandy Jobin-Bevans | Sara Waisglass | Sorika Wolf
Jeff says: “You will understand within 15 minutes exactly where this story will end up. These are its bones: Two lost souls, initially and profoundly incompatible, find common cause and forge a new relationship leaving them both better off. An
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julien Colonna
Starring: Andre Cossu | Anthony Morganti | Frederic Poggi | Ghjuvanna Benedetti | Saveriu Santucci
Michael says: “Let me get this out of the way up front. I have a very strong dislike for stories about crime family/mafia. The only one I can think of that I enjoyed was BOUND, so the odds were stacked
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: François Nemeta
Diane says: “Shame on me for not knowing the name Michel Gondry, particularly as the Oscar-winning director and co-writer of 2004’s ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. This eponymous doc, assembled by Gondry’s friend and collaborator François Nemeta, presents a
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Albert Birney
Starring: Albert Birney | Callie Hernandez | Frank Mosley
Val says: “A young man, possible agoraphobic but living a happy, quiet life with his dog in 1987 Baltimore has his world turned upside down when he decides to participate in an experimental new ‘interactive’ video game that leads him
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Peter Cilella
Starring: aisha kabia | Alexandra Barreto | Charlene Amoia | Georgia Bishop | Ross Marquand
Val says: “A young father-to-be has an accident (and encounter) that makes him question what’s real and what’s not. “I love a good alien abduction film! This one was not. A promising premise that’s let down by bad writing and
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Rating: .75 cats
Director: Andrew Mudge
Starring: Bill Thorpe | Chloe Trejo | Hudson West | Lucy Walters | Will Lyman
Michael says: “Well, they can’t all be good. “Writer/Director Andrew Mudge got a world premiere for his second feature film, THE ARBORIST, at the Independent Film Festival Boston. This creepy, low-grade horror film is largely an examination of guilt and
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ye Lou
Starring: Hao Qin | Ming Liang | Xi Qi | Xiaorui Mao | Xuan Huang
Michael says: “The year is 2019 and in Shanghai, a director reunites the cast and crew from a film they were making ten years ago but were unable to complete due to loss of funding. As the shooting nears its
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Rating: 4.25 cats | 4.3 cats
Director: Ryan White
Laks says: “I cannot remember the last time I was sat in a full cinema that wept and laughed all together in seeming quick succession. On several occasions they were genuine tears of joy on other occasions it was pure
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Director: Randall Emmett
Starring: Gina Gershon | John Travolta | Lukas Haas | Natali Yura | Quavo
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Director: Andrew Holmes | Austin Andrews
Starring: Adam Beach | Camille Sullivan | David Mazouz | Donal Logue | Paloma Kwiatkowski
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Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Ambur Braid | Rachael Kerr | Rebecca Liddiard | Vinessa Antoine
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Director: Rungano Nyoni
Starring: Chungu Bwalya | Elizabeth Chisela | Maggie Mulubwa | Roy Chisha | Susan Chardy
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Director: Freddie Wong | Matthew Arnold
Starring: Alexander Chard | Ashly Burch | Indiana Arnold | Nevada Arnold | Olivia Cade
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Director: Bill Bennett
Starring: Chris Haywood | Jennifer Cluff | Laura Lakshmi | Pia Thunderbolt
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Director: Matías Piñeiro
Starring: Agustina Muñoz | Ana Cristina Barragán | Gabriela Saidon | Maria Inês Gonçalves | María Villar
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Director: Jessica Kozak
Starring: Becca Q. Co | Danny DeFerrari | Kate Easton | Kayla Foster | Sunita Mani | Wilder Than Her
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Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Starring: Elmira Bashash | Joel Oulette | Keira Jang | Reece Presley | Sandra Oh
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Director: Duke Johnson
Starring: Andre Holland | Asim Chaudhry | Gemma Chan | Joe Cole | May Calamawy
