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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Andrew Scott | Carter John Grout | Claire Foy | Jamie Bell | Paul Mescal
Diane says: “ALL OF US STRANGERS opens with three scenes of admirable economy. Later on, director and screenwriter Andrew Haigh (45 YEARS, LEAN ON PETE) finds creative and convincing ways to pull us deep into someone’s psyche, adapting a novel
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Director: Anthony Mandler
Starring: Jamie Bell | Jeefrey Donovan | Kevin Wiggins | Letitia Wright | Michael Kenneth Williams
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard | Jamie Bell | Richard Madden | Taron Egerton
Thom says: “This is a tough film for me to review because although I’ve been a great lover of music throughout my life I never liked Elton John. Over the years he only had a minuscule number of songs I
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Director: Tom Browning
Starring: Adam Bartley | Chris Sutton | Jamie Bell | Michael Agee
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Annette Bening | Jamie Bell | Julie Walters | Kenneth Cranham | Vanessa Redgrave
Thom says: “It’s not often that a non big-budget film stars 4 actors who are must-see and the italicized 4 here are all terrific in their roles. Director McGuigan is surprisingly not well-known by me, and yet, amazingly, I’ve seen
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Starring: Chris Evans | Jamie Bell | John Hurt | Ko Ah-sung | Octavia Spencer | Song Kang-ho | Tilda Swinton
Jason says: “A Korean director making an English-language movie from a French graphic novel may seem like a random combination, but it’s really not: Both Korean genre film and French bandes dessinées often blur genre lines and forms, while English
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christian Slater | Jamie Bell | Jean-Marc Barr | Mia Goth | Shia LaBeouf | Sophie Kennedy Clark | Stacy Martin | Stellan Skarsgård | Udo Kier | Uma Thurman | Willem Dafoe
Kyle says: “NYMPHOMANIAC Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 are recent works by the most provocative director on the current international cinema scene. Lars von Trier has been thrice recognized by Chlotrudis with nominations for Original Screenplay for DOGVILLE (2003), and for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Starring: Jamie Bell | Judi Dench | Mia Wasikowska | Michael Fassbender | Sally Hawkins | Tamzin Merchant
Thom says: “This had all the ingredients to be a perfect ‘classic’ film and it very nearly succeeded but for a nagging problem that wouldn’t go away for me. Director Fukunaga had brought us the impressive SIN NOMBRE and he
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Ciarán Hinds | Claire Forlani | Jamie Bell | John Paul Lawler | Lucy Holt | Sophia Myles
Bruce says: “David Mackenzie is succeeding in bringing unconventional stories to the screen such as THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS and YOUNG ADAM. MISTER FOE is a perfect companion piece for those earlier films. MISTER FOE is a coming-of-age tale which
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Dermot Mulroney | Devon Alan | Eddie Rouse | Jamie Bell | Josh Lucas | Kristen Stewart | Patrice Johnson | Robert Longstreet
Bruce says: “**ATTENTION SPOILERS** “UNDERTOW is the latest film from David Gordon Green, director of GEORGE WASHINGTON and ALL THE REAL GIRLS. This is the first film which he did not write himself. Again, Green proves beyond a doubt that
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