Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Leonardo Van Dijl
Starring: Alyssa Lorette | Grace Biot | Luca de Maar | Noah Lecloux | Tessa Van den Broeck
Diane says: “This Belgian film, a very quiet counterpart to 2020’s SLALOM, is about an athlete pushed hard by a coach where boundaries may not be respected. Julie (Tessa Van den Broeck) is an exceptional tennis player, on scholarship at
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Director: Varda Bar-Kar
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Minh Quy Truong
Starring: Duy Bao Dinh Dao | Ho Lan Le | Thanh Hai Pham | Thi Nga Nguyen | Viet Tung Le
Chris says: “Almost a tone poem in its slower-than-Tsai Ming-liang pace, it’s often as if viewing a familiar world through foreign eyes with its arresting but rarely “pretty” imagery. Requires a second watch but one I’ll be eager to make.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Braverman
Diane says: “‘Is this for real?’ That’s the most common response to any of Andy Kaufman’s acts. And that’s one of the questions that the doc THANK YOU VERY MUCH wants to answer. The other is, who was Andy Kaufman
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Director: Chad Vidanes
Starring: Benj Manalo | Kim Chiu | Lovely Abella | Paulo Avelino | Wilma Doesnt
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Amnon Carmi
Starring: Adam B. Shapiro | Catherine Curtin | Christine McBurney | Lisa Ann Loggins | Nik Sadhnani
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fleur Fortune
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Charlotte Ritchie | Elizabeth Olsen | Himesh Patel | Indira Varma
Adam says: “Extremely GATTACA-coded (complimentary). 4 cats“
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Director: Elijah Bynum
Starring: Haley Bennett | Harriet Sansom Harris | Harrison Page | Jonathan Majors | Michael O'Hearn
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sanjay Patel
Starring: Adam Beach | Carmen Moore | Graham Greene | Simon Baker | Tanaya Beatty
Michael says: “I enjoyed this tale of two brothers struggling with their native identity when thrown into a battle to reclaim their inheritance after their father leaves it to the native community living in the northern Canadian town of Bird.
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Director: Jessica Palud
Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei | Céleste Brunnquell | Giuseppe Maggio | Matt Dillon | Yvan Attal
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Robert Michael Ryan
Starring: Angela Relucio | Elena Juliano | Jason Robert Stephens | Marie-Louise Boisnier | Sarah Nicklin
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Joe Stephenson
Starring: Darci Shaw | Ed Speleers | Eddie Izzard | Emily Watson | Jacob Fortune-Lloyd
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Griffiths
Starring: Akemnji Ndifornyen | Sian Clifford | Tim Key | Tom Basden
Adam says: “Sweet and charming Fox Searchlight-core British indie with a dash of Nick Hornby. Tim Key great. 3 1/2 cats“
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Director: Ami Canaan Mann
Starring: Brandon Micheal Hall | Clancy Brown | Jimmi Simpson | Natalie Dormer | Staci Dickerson
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Shaun Silva
Starring: Billy Zane | Cara Jade Myers | Scott Adkins | Trace Adkins | Zach Roerig
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9 cats
Director: Eva Victor
Starring: Eva Victor | John Carroll Lynch | Kelly McCormack | Louis Cancelmi | Lucas Hedges | Naomi Ackie
Julie says: “Eva Victor is someone to watch. She’s a chameleon of sorts not recognizable to me as the main character of the movie when she intro’s the movie as I’m sitting in the middle of the Coolidge large theater.
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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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