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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Keren Yedaya
Starring: Dana Ivgy | Meshar Cohen | Ronit Elkabetz
Bruce says: “What happens when the child is forced to care for the parent? After all, that is what eventually happens to most of us. The tables turn. We tend to our aging parents, then in turn, our children care
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Hye-jeong Kang | Ji-tae Yu | Min-sik Choi
Thom says: “I’m really quite curious why this film has been so lauded. With Quentin Tarentino having long established the hatred and insidiousness of the ‘revenge’ film, this had the dubious distinction of trying to go one step further. This
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Campbell Scott
Starring: Amy Brenneman | J.D. Garfield | J.K. Simmons | Joan Allen | Sam Elliott | Valentina de Angelis
Michael says: “The solo directorial effort by actor Campbell Scott (he co-directed BIG NIGHT) is a meditation on place, looking at the mystical, transformative powers of New Mexico through a quiet, quirky family drama. Eleven-year-old Bo plans her getaway from
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Andrew Horn
Chris says: “Whenever I write a music review, I usually end up drawing clever/lazy comparisons to other artists, but I honestly wouldn’t know where to begin with Klaus Nomi. A beguiling figure in New York’s new wave scene in the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Ayru Kitaura | Hiei Kimura | You | YûyaYagira
Michael says: “Eschewing the dreamlike mystery of DISTANCE and MABOROSI, and the mystical backdrop of AFTER LIFE, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda grounds his latest film in the harsh realities of modern day. Akira is the protagonist, a pre-teen, the oldest
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rodrigo García
Starring: Holly Hunter | Kathy Baker; | Robin Wright Penn | Sissy Spacek
Bruce says: “This star-studded vehicle is divided into nine vignettes each named after the woman who is the main character. Each vignette is a stand alone short film but several characters do pop up in other vignettes. Sissy Spacek figures
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Savi Gavison
Starring: Alon Abutbul | Anat Waxman | Aviv Elkabeth | Ayelet Zorer | Dov Navon | Shmil Ben Ari | Yoram Hattab
Clinton says: “This Israeli film was a real treat, a foreign film that transcends country and language to tell a very human story. This is the world as seen through the eyes of young Nadav. His parents have recently split
Read the review...Night of Truth, The (Burkina Faso/France; 100 min.) directed by: Fanta Régina Nacrostarring: Moussa Cissé; Adama Ouédraogo Bruce says: “The 57 countries of Africa are largely the creation of colonists, Europeans who carved up the continent as they licked
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Bill Sage | Brady Corbett | Elisabeth Shue | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Michelle Trachtenberg
Bruce says: “We all bring our own baggage into every experience. It is hardly surprising that the effect of any common experience and the baggage we carry away from it will vary for each of us. Most of the time,
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Rating: 3.4
Director: Pawel Pavlikovsky
Starring: Emily Blunt | Nathalie Press | Paddy Considine
Michael says: “MY SUMMER OF LOVE revolves around two teenaged girls who are drawn together over the course of one summer as kindred spirits who have suffered disappointment especially from the men in their lives. Director Pawel Pavlikowsky, who handled
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Dana Adam Shapiro | Henry Alex Rubin
Chris says: “The very idea of ‘quadriplegic wheelchair rugby’ may initially sound like some sort of sick joke, but this documentary emphatically shows it’s nothing to scoff at. Rivaling (and besting) most fictional ‘inspirational’ sports films, MURDERBALL follows Team USA
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Ayelet Zurer | Ciarán Hinds | Daniel Craig | Eric Bana | Geoffrey Rush | Mathieu Almaric | Mathieu Kassovitz
Hilary says: “Just a few words on MUNICH: “I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. Spielberg actually redeems himself as a filmmaker, not just a blockbuster-izer, up until the last 10 minutes when he takes out his Significance
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hans Fjellestad
Hilary says: “This uneven documentary tells the story of (recently-deceased) electronic music innovator, Dr. Robert Moog. An electrical engineer and theremin enthusiast, Moog’s name became synonymous with the synthesizer in the 1960s. “There are some interesting interactions between Moog and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Peg says: “If SIDEWAYS was wine’s MANHATTAN, MONDOVINO is its ROGER AND ME. An ambitious, sprawling (2 and a quarter hours and maybe a bit too long) documentary which mainly takes place in France, Italy and California (with brief segments
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta
Starring: Mithun Chakraborty | Rahul Bose | Sameera Reddy
Bruce says: “Sumanta, a young man, has filed a report on local corruption and is taken to task by his boss. ‘Who isn’t corrupt in this country?’ the boss asks. When the young man insists he followed through perfectly on
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Dave McKean
Starring: Gina McKee | Rob Brydon | Stephanie Leonidas
Michael says: “The visually spectacular fantasy by the comic world’s rock gods Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman has been getting very mixed reviews. Critics are comparing it to Alice in Wonderland and LABYRINTH for its tale of a young girl
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Alexander Nathan Etel | Daisy Donovan | James Nesbitt | Lewis Own McGibbon
Chris says: “No junkies or zombies in Danny Boyle’s first family film, which asks, ‘What would happen if two young boys found a duffel bag stacked with cash that seemingly just fell from out of the sky?’ MILLIONS sort of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Kang-ho Song | Roe-ha Kim | Sang-kyung Kim
Michael says: “This challenging film of the misuse of power by the police during a dictatorial regime is further proof of the rise in the Korean film industry. In 1986 a small village in South Korea was plagued by its
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Gong Li | Michelle Yeoh | Zhang Ziyi
Chris says: “I never had any desire to read Arthur Golden’s obscenely popular novel. At first, this adaptation confirmed my worst suspicions: a sumptuously filmed but middlebrow Hollywood take on a subject that deserves better. Still, despite a slow start
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Brooke Smith | Chloe Sevigny | Jonny Lee Miller | Radha Mitchell | Will Ferrell
Janet says: “I keep dragging myself to these Woody Allen movies—mostly, at this point, to see the clothing and interior decor. The young couples in the film are decorating their upscale pads in an Anthropologie style with touches of the
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