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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Deborah Strang | Gaby Hoffmann | Jaboukie Young-White | Joaquin Phoenix | Molly Webster | Scoot McNairy | Woody Norman
Brett says: “Director Mike Mills is up to Mike Mills things once again with another A24 home-run in C’MON C’MON. Show up for the enthralling dialogue, stay for the emotional tug-of-wars (yes, plural), and leave with a lump in your
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Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Alison Folland | Casey Affleck | Illeana Douglas | Joaquin Phoenix | Matt Dillon | Nicole Kidman
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Garth Davis
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor | Joaquin Phoenix | ooney Mara | Tahar Rahim
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Dante Pereira-Olson | Frank Pando | Joaquin Phoenix | John Doman | Judith Roberts | Vinicius Damasceno
Thom says: “The presentation of this film was enticing and over her career director Ramsay has made the impressive RATCATCHER and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, as well as the mediocre MORVERN CALLAR; moreover, the nearly always great performance
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Joanna Newsom | Joaquin Phoenix | Josh Brolin | Katherine Waterston | Owen Wilson | Reese Witherspoon
Thom says: “Other than BOOGIE NIGHTS, which I loathed, I’ve been a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson films, although, truth-to-tell I’ve only given my highest rating to THERE WILL BE BLOOD. And there were really great parts of MAGNOLIA, PUNCH-DRUNK
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Rating: 3.9
Director: James Gray
Starring: Angela Sarafyan | Dagmara Dominczyk | Jeremy Renner | Joaquin Phoenix | Marion Cotillard
Jason says: “The first shot of THE IMMIGRANT- the Statue of Liberty seen from behind, through a brownish fog – is certainly the sort that let the audience know just what the next two hours have in store. Director James
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Ambyr Childers | Amy Adams | Joaquin Phoenix | Laura Dern | Lena Endre | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bruce says: “Much has been said about THE MASTER being a thinly disguised biopic of L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology. Hubbard may have been the inspiration for the film but THE MASTER is about cultism in general.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Casey Affleck
Starring: Anthony Langdon | Carey Perloff | Casey Affleck | Joaquin Phoenix | Larry McHale
Thom says: “I don’t have a clue what to make of this. Joaquin Phoenix has long been a must-see for me. I probably came to know him because of my love for his brother River. And since he was supposedly
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: James Gray
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow | Joaquin Phoenix | Vinessa Shaw
Peg says: “This odd, often bleak little film starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow stumbles as it starts but eventually settles into an absorbing character driven drama. Not quite a love story, this is more a narrative of surviving a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terry George
Starring: Eddie Alderson | Elle Fanning | Jennifer Connelly | Joaquin Phoenix | Mark Ruffalo | Mira Sorvino | Sean Curley
Bruce says: “Were the acting not so good, my recommendation would be to not bother with this overwrought drama which is reminiscent of IN THE BEDROOM with its vengeful father and WE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE and THE ICE STORM
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