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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Buxton
Starring: Ben Foster | Cobie Smulders | Dan Lett | Gavin Drea | Reid Price
Brett says: “Director Jason Buxton (BLACKBIRD) brings his second feature film SHARP CORNER to life with a unique tone that enriches the entire project. The film is led by a terrific (as always) performance by Ben Foster, who portrays a
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Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Starring: Adam Sandler | Anthony Edwards | Ben Foster | Juancho Hernangomez | Kenny Smith | Queen Latifah | Robert Duvall
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Debra Granik
Starring: Ben Foster | Jeffery Rifflard | Thomasin McKenzie
Chris says: “Although far less prolific, I’d like to think of Debra Granik as the American Mike Leigh for her depiction (consideration, even) of the working-class without condescending to them. Not as seminal or all-out engrossing as WINTER’SBONE, but teenager
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Rating: 3.9
Director: John Krokidas
Starring: Ben Foster | Dane DeHaan. Michael C. Hall | Daniel Radcliffe | David Cross | Elizabeth Olsen | Jack Huston | Jennifer Jason Leigh | John Cullum
Thom says: “WARNING SPOILER: I Do give some information away but since the film is based on fact I felt I had the license but if you would be disturbed stop reading now. “It’s rare to see such an utterly
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Fernando Merirelles
Starring: Anthony Hopkins | Ben Foster | Jude Law | Lucia Siposova | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Rachel Weisz
Thom says: “Director Meirelles has really been on a tear with such successes as CITY OF GOD, THE CONSTANT GARDNER, & BLINDNESS so with the first rate cast here I had high expectations, but maybe I’ve seen one too many
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oren Moverman
Starring: Ben Foster | Eamonn Walker | Jena Malone | Samantha Morton | Steve Buscemi | Woody Harrelson | Yaya DaCosta
Jason says: “THE MESSENGER has no problem with making the audience a little uncomfortable. What might, in another movie, have been a bittersweet romance between Ben Foster’s Will Montgomery (a wounded soldier serving the end of his hitch informing next
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