Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Charlie Shackleton
Julie says: “The director was so insightful and his laughing through the narration (at appropriate moments) of ‘the movie that wasn’t’ was so wonderful and so infectious! Excellent deconstruction of crime movies and film in general, and so funny as
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Rating: 4.7 cats
Director: Davis Guggenheim | Nyle DiMarco
Chris says: “I knew nothing about Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college in Washington DC for the deaf and hard of hearing; nor was I familiar with the 1988 eight-day, student-led protest against the appointment of a non-deaf president instead of two
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Andrew DeYoung
Starring: Jack Dylan Grazer | Kate Mara | Paul Rudd | Rick Worthy | Tim Robinson
Michael says: “This dark buddy comedy succeeds or fails on your knowledge and appreciation of star Tim Robinson, a sketch comic who is best known for his TV show, ‘I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.’ I had never
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Rating: 3.625 cats | 3.75 cats
Director: Bernhard Wenger
Starring: Albrecht Schuch | Anton Noori | Julia Franz Richter | Salka Weber | Theresa Frostad Eggesbø
Chris says: “Matthias (handsome beanpole Albrecht Schuch) has a most unusual job ‘renting’ himself out to temporarily be whomever one needs him to: whether a friend, son, father or dinner-date companion, he’s a willing blank slate, a cipher who can
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Rating: 3.625 cats | 4 cats
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Chris says: “Where to begin with PAVEMENTS? Is it a vehicle meant to document the famed 1990s indie-rock quintet Pavement as they reunite and rehearse for a 2022 tour? A biopic of the band casting the likes of Joe Keery
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Rating: 2.3 cats
Director: Neo Sora
Starring: Hayato Kurihara | Makiko Watanabe | Shia Peng | Shirô Sano | Yuta Koga
Michael says: “Japanese film, HAPPYEND is the debut narrative feature from director Neo Sora, whose previous work has been in shorts and documentaries. HAPPYEND is a fairly standard story about a group of high school friends nearing graduation who are
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Laks says: “We got a timely Chlotrudis review of Alex Garland’s WARFARE which I kept in mind as I went in to see Mstyslav Chernov’s (20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL) 2000 METERS IN ANDRIIVKA. The film opens with a description of the
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Rating: 4.625 cats
Director: David Osit
Aaron says “PREDATORS is an upsetting and provocative documentary that plays like a morally urgent thriller. Filmmaker David Osit examines the fallout of ‘To Catch a Predator, the NBC show that used decoy actors playing minors to lure would-be sex
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Rating: 3.25 cats
Director: Mariana Wainstein
Starring: Agustín Della Corte | Felipe Gonzalez Otaño | Julieta Cardinali | Minerva Casero | Rafael Spregelburd
Aaron says: “LINDA doubles as a thriller that doesn’t quite thrill and a portrait of an enigmatic main character that never gels into a thoughtful enough character study. Mariana Wainstein’s Argentinian film has a promising setup: alluring maid Linda (Eugenia
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Elizabeth Lo
Val says: “A wife discovers her husband is having an affair, and hires a specialist to get rid of the mistress, but not in the way you might think. “This documentary watches like a narrative, with gorgeous shot composition, characters,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tracie Laymon
Starring: Barbie Ferreira | French Stewart | John Leguizamo | Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer | Rachel Bay Jones
Diane says: “My movie companion turned to me at the end of BOB TREVINO LIKES IT and said, ‘Maybe cinephiles would find some flaws in this movie, but it was just perfect.’ “So I won’t mention the occasional clunky dialogue.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alex Barland | Ray Mendoza
Starring: Aaron Mackenzie | Alex Brockdorff | Cosmo Jarvis | D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai | Joseph Quinn
Diane says: “WARFARE is a recreated 2006 incident from the Iraq War, involving a group of mostly Navy SEALS. Co-director Ray Mendoza (along with Alex Garland) was part of the platoon. They used the testimony of platoon members to write the
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Maotao Hu | Tao Zhao | You Zhou | Zhou Lan | Zhubin Li
Michael says: “Zhangke Jia’s twelfth, full-length feature narrative, CAUGHT IN THE TIDES, is a challenging yet fascinating construction of his own past and present work to tell the tale of a woman searching for her beloved over decades. The film
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Isaiah Saxon
Starring: Emily Watson | Finn Wolfhard | Helena Zengel | Razvan Stoica | Willem Dafoe
Laks says: “THE LEGEND OF OCHI follows the story of Yuri, who is dressed in a bright yellow puffy jacket and begins with her hunting with her father and many brothers. We soon learn that they are hunting the Ochi
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Rating: 5 cats
Starring: Jessica Earnshaw
Diane says: “I am so glad I saw this movie. BABY DOE is a doc by Jessica Earnshaw about a grandmother who is on trial for leaving a newborn to die at the side of the road 25 years before.
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Director: Wendy Sachs
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Rob Taylor
Starring: Danielle Vasinova | Eddie Griffin | Emily Sweet | Paula Abdul | Walter Koenig
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Scott Briggs
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Anthony Schatteman
Starring: Dirk van Dijck | Emilie De Roo | Geert Van Rampelberg | Lou Goossens | Marius De Saeger
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Lior Geller
Starring: Charlie MacGechan | Jeremy Neumark Jones | Oliver Jackson-Cohen
