Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Alam Arkin | Elias Koteas | Ethan Hawke | Gore Vidal | Jude Law | Loren Dean | Uma Thurman
Michael says: “The premise was intriguing, and it was on a list of essential film’s to watch, but Andrew Niccol’s directorial debut, was a big loser for me. When a genetically inferior man tricks his way into a job that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Durkin
Starring: Carrie Coon | Charlie Shotwell | Jude Law | Marcus Cornwall | Oona Roche | Tanya Allen | Tattiawna Jones | Wendy Crewson
Michael says: “THE NEST tells the story of a family that is falling apart due to the pressures and excesses of the late 1980’s culture. Rory and Allison O’Hara are living the good life, enough money for a gorgeous home
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Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Cate Blanchett | Gwyneth Paltrow | Jack Davenport | James Rebhorn | Jude Law | Matt Damon | Philip Seymour Hoffman
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Brian Gilbert
Starring: Gemma Jones | Jennifer Ehle | Jude Law | Judy Parfitt | Michael Sheen | Stephen Fry | Tom Wilkinson | Vanessa Redgrave | Zoë Wanamaker
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brady Corbet
Starring: Jude Law | Natalie Portman | Raffey Cassidy | Willem Dafoe
Brett says: “VOX LUX is a demolition derby of themes that keep colliding after the initial premise is introduced. Just when the viewer thinks that he/she has a finger on what this movie is, another head-on impact from writer/director Brady
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: Demián Bichir | Emilia Clark | Jude Law | Jumayn Hunter | Richard E. Grant
Jason says: “Dom Hemingway feels like he’s the sort of character Jude Law could settle into and play for a while, so perhaps it’s only fitting that the movie itself plays like a couple episodes of a TV show that
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson | Alice Vikander | Domhnall Gleeson | Jude Law | Keira Knightly | Kelly Macdonald | Matthew Macfadyen | Olivia Williams
Matt says: “ATONEMENT director Joe Wright’s bold costume drama ANNA KARENINA served as my introduction to Leo Tolstoy’s beloved story of passion and infidelity among aristocrats in 19th century Russia. Despite my lack of familiarity with the novel, Wright’s audacious
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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: 2 cats
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Jude Law | Mark Strong | Rachel McAdams | Robert Downey Jr | Robert Maillet
Thom says: “Hmmm… Admittedly, I have no respect at all for fake macho director Ritchie, and while this film is fitfully entertaining, finally let’s attack it for esthetic reasons. This was adapted from a comic book of all mediums but
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Christopher Plummer | Colin Farrell | Heath Ledger | Johnny Depp | Jude Law | Lily Cole | Tom Waits
Jason says: “Ordinarily, when good people make a bad movie, there’s a tendency to hunt for where things went wrong. THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS offers an obvious and logical culprit: The sudden death of its star, Heath Ledger, midway
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