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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Philippe Lesage
Starring: Antoine Marchand-Gagnon | Arieh Worthalter | Aurélia Arandi-Longpré | Noah Parker | Paul Ahmarani
Chris says: “‘Cabin Fever!’, one woman quips at the dinner table following a particularly cringe-laden tirade thrown by another of its occupants; this occurs closer towards the end of this character study about ten or so people staying at a
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Director: Olmo Schnabel
Starring: Dario Yazbek Bernal | Gerry Bednob | Jack Irv | Louis Cancelmi | Tal Chatterjee
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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