Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ellen Kuras
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Andrea Riseborough | Andy Samberg | Kate Winslet | Marion Cotillard
Laks says: “I was able to soak up two major works that commemorated towering American women that were released in 2024. The first being Laurie Anderson’s AMELIA which was based on the life of Amelia Earhart. The other being Ellen
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Rebecca Hall
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Andre Holland | Antoinette Crowe-Legacy | Bill Camp | Gbenga Akinnagbe | Ruth Negga | Tessa Thompson
Michael says: “This assured directorial debut from actor Rebecca Hall reveals a practice that many people will be unaware. Set in 1920’s Harlem, a chance reunion of two high school friends poses moral and ethical challenges to a black woman
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Brian Tyree Henry | Demián Bichir | Eiza González | Julian Dennison | Kyle Chandler | Lance Reddick | Millie Bobby Brown | Rebecca Hall | Shun Oguri
Michael says: “**SPOILERS if you care about who wins.** “What I learned form watching GODZILLA VS. KONG was that I am either a) further from the mainstream than I had already thought, or b) Mothra’s appearance in a monster movie
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Director: Kim Nguyen
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Jesse Eisenberg | Michael Mando | Salma Hayek
Thom says: “I’ve only seen 2 of Canadian director Nguyen’s mediocre fare (WAR WITCH & 2 LOVERS & A BEAR) and this turgid effort won’t add to his appeal. It might well be that the plot went right over my
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Kent
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Fionn O'Shea | Flora Thiemann | Jack Laskey | Jason Clarke | Keira Knightley | Monika Foris Kvasnicková
Thom says: “It’s post-WWII Hamburg where a colonel is there with his family to help with Reconstruction and they move into a house still populated by the German owner and his shy daughter. Of course, the British colonel and his
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Brit Marling | Ellen Page | Patricia Clarkson | Shiloh Fernandez | Toby Kebbell
Chris says: “Serviceable—that’s the word I kept thinking of throughout this thriller in which an intelligence agency operative (Brit Marling) infiltrates herself within an eco-terrorist group that targets the agency’s corporate clients. I’m not saying this film, co-written by Marling
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Henry Alex Rubin
Starring: 357 Magnumm | Alexander Skarsgård | Hope Davis | Jason Bateman | Jonah Bobo | Max Thieriot
Thom says: “This film has received lots of top, glowing reviews so I went with huge expectations but I was underwhelmed. It could be considered CRASH for the Internet Age except the three stories told here, aren’t interconnected. While not
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Brady Corbet | Cameron Spurr | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Kirsten Dunst | Udo Kier
Jason says: “As hooks go, it’s tough to beat the one Lars von Trier uses to start MELANCHOLIA: The world ends in such slow motion that time almost seems to be standing still. It’s a fantastic scene of planetary destruction,
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