Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 3.2 cats
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Charlie XCX | Chase Sui Wonders | Cooper Hoffman | Daveed Diggs | Olivia Wilde
Peter says: “Standing outside in the long film festival line for Gregg Araki’s latest film, inevitably, passersby would ask those in line, ‘What is this line for?’ And you could feel the immediate discomfort on their face when “I Want
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: John Early
Starring: Harris Mayersohn | John Early | Kate Berlant | Kip Reynolds | Neil Wachs
Eliza says: “From the beginning, I wasn’t sure what the audience was supposed to feel. I first thought it was solely a think-piece on gender. A sort of glimpse into life if one’s gender identity simply wasn’t questioned by others,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Kahlil | Zack Kahlil
Cassian says: “The Khalil brothers take us through a deeply emotional decades-long journey of reburying the remains of their ancestors through the process of indigenous repatriation. This documentary follows MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance), a unified group
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Rating: 2.3 cats
Director: Mark Jenkin
Starring: Callum Turner | Emily Daglish-Laine | Francis Magee | George MacKay | Rosalind Eleazar
Cassian says: “A mysterious fishing boat reappears after 30 years. A young father and a mysterious drifter join the fishing crew in hopes of prosperity but things take an unexpected turn when they get stuck in a time loop. “What
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Rating: 4.4 cats
Director: Olivia Wilde
Starring: Ed Norton | Olivia Wilde | Penélope Cruz | Seth Rogan
Peter says: “The closing night of IFFBoston is always a bittersweet affair – it’s the official capping off of what to me is basically film nerd summer camp. My volunteer friends of 10+ years were so excited to have gotten
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Rafael Manuel
Starring: Carlos Siguion-Reyna | Carmen Castellanos | Isabel Sicat | Jorrybell Agoto | Teroy Guzman
Peter says: “Winning the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the Sundance Film Festival, Filipiñana is that kind of slow-moving art film you might need to pinch yourself a few times to keep from nodding off. “The film primarily
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Lorena Luciano
Peter says: “Last year, I traveled internationally for the first time, and part of my European excursion involved visiting the Vatican. It was easily a highlight of the trip due to the sheer magnitude of the art and architecture, but
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Rating: 3.25 cats
Director: Kent Jones
Starring: Clark Johnson | Greta Lee | Jake Lacy | Willem Dafoe | William Hill
Brett says: “There once was a guy from Soho Who wrote a book long forgotten, oh no A bunch of young wannabes Invite him into their coterie But is acting your age more important than FOMO? “Director Kent Jones brings
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Jeremy Workman
Brett says: “SCHOOL FOR DEFECTORS is an insightful look into a single school in particular that is one of multiple schools in South Korea set up for transitioning children who have defected from North Korea. The result is a collection
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Patrick Bresnan
Peter says: “I just recently finished teaching Fahrenheit 451, and unfortunately, this documentary is proof that Bradbury’s warnings are as relevant as ever. “In 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took over the ultra-liberal New College in Sarasota. It’s the sort
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Matty Wishnow
Peter says: “I had the interesting experience of seeing The Last Critic – a documentary about legendary music critic Robert Christgau – seated amongst a crowd of film critics in the audience! “Christgau, over many decades, seemed to perfect the
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Rachael J. Morrison
Peter says: “Never did I realize just how equalizing the telephone is for blind people. It’s true: we’re all ‘blind’ on the phone. It’s for that reason that Joe Engressia, aka ‘Joybubbles,’ became an obsessed ‘phone phreak’ – using the
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Rating: 2.7 cats
Director: Pourya Azarbayjani
Starring: David Diaan | Jadé Porciatti | Miriam Cyr | Nicole Ansari-Cox | Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam
Brett says: “AS I AM is a well-meaning narrative feature from director/writer Pourya Azerbayjani Dow in which a former solider in the Iran-Iraq War seeks to rekindle a flame from forty years in the past, with emphasis on the word
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Alysa Nahmias
Peter says: “I’m not sure if other countries experience anything similar, but Girl Scout Cookies are a BIG DEAL in America. Hordes of wee little girls station themselves outside of grocery stores and local businesses, selling boxes upon boxes of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Boots Riley
Starring: Demi Moore | Eiza González | Keke Palmer | Naomi Ackie | Poppy Liu | Taylor Paige
Brett says: “I LOVE BOOSTERS, the latest from Boots Riley, brings many of the same stylings as his earlier film SORRY TO BOTHER YOU in that the audience is eased into what is clearly a satire in the first act
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Radu Jude
Starring: Adonis Tanta | Alexandra Haripu | Ana Dumitrascu | Gabriel Spahiu | Oana Maria Zaharia
Chris says: “Jude’s take on the venerable Bram Stoker character is gleefully profane and maybe the best possible use of AI (i.e.–satirically.) Split into a dozen or so vignettes, at nearly three hours, it didn’t need to be longer than Do
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Rehmeier
Starring: Juan Silva | Kyle Gallner | Kyra Sedgwick | P.J. Sosko | Samara Wearving
Brett says: “It may be fitting for this film to have two words in its title with the second word mimicking the first since the premise contained within is nothing new in itself either. A con man rolls up into
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Judd Ehrlich
Peter says: “In one of the most famous social experiments in American history, primary school teacher Jane Elliott, in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, decided to teach her students about discrimination in a radical way. In her Brown
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Director: Malcolm Venville
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Xander Robin
