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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Brady Hepner | Carrie Preston | Da'Vine Joy Randolph | Dominic Sessa | Paul Giamatti
Chris says: “If Alexander Payne’s last film, 2017’s sci-fi allegory DOWNSIZING was a big swing and a miss, his latest plays it much safer for the benefit of everyone involved. A return to smart, dyspeptic comedy, THE HOLDOVERS also reunites
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Director: Navot Papushado
Starring: Adam Nagaitis | Ed Birch | Freya Allan | Joanna Bobin | Karen Gillan | Lena Headey | Paul Giamatti | Ralph Ineson
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Bill Pohlad
Starring: Bill Camp | Elizabeth Banks | Jake Abel | John Cusack | Paul Dano | Paul Giamatti
Jason says: “Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys made some of their best songs (and one of pop music’s greatest albums) by meticulously – indeed, maniacally – piecing small fractions together that aren’t naturally found near each other, inventing what
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: Chase Williamson | Clancy Brown | Doug Jones | Glynn Turman | Paul Giamatti | Rob Mayes
Jason says: “According to the post-film Q&A (and others I’ve talked to), John Dies at the End is a cult novel that barely had time to gain a reputation as unfilmable before going before the cameras. Director and screenwriter Don
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Emily Hampshire | Juliette Binoche | Paul Giamatti | Robert Pattinson | Samantha Morton | Sarah Gadon
Thom says: “David Cronenberg has for many years been one of my top 10 living directors and, in fact, he had eleven consecutive top-rated films with me, a feat only a handful of directors have ever achieved, but his next
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Starring: Alex Shaffer | Amy Ryan | Bobby Cannavale | Jeffrey Tambor | Melanie Lynskey | Paul Giamatti
Michael says: “Paul Giamatti plays Mike Flaherty, an attorney in a New Jersey town who is struggling to make ends meet. When an opportunity presents itself for him to become the guardian of one of his elderly clients and make
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: George Clooney
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood; Marisa Tomei | George Clooney | Jennifer Ehle | Paul Giamatti | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Ryan Gosling
Thom says: “Governor Mike Morris (Clooney) is running hot & hard for his party’s Presidential candidacy and the latest crucial primary state is Ohio. His closest competitor is Senator Pullman. Morris’ hot-shot campaign manager Paul Zara (Hoffman in another spot-on
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Starring: Bruce Greenwood | Minnie Driver | Paul Giamatti | Rachelle LaFevre | Rosamund Pike | Scott Speedman
Thom says: “Adapted from the Mordechai Richler (who sadly passed before this film was released) novel this film does have loads of charm that tried very hard to overcome the basically obnoxious protagonist. Barney Panofsky is a very successful Canadian
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff | Christopher Plummer | Helen Mirren | James McAvoy | Kerry Condon | Paul Giamatti
Jason says: “THE LAST STATION is a perfectly adequate sort of historical drama. Nice cast in Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, and Helen Mirren. Nice production values. Interesting subjects. You may learn something while watching it, whether in terms of history,
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Sophie Barthes
Starring: David Straithairn | Dina Korzun | Emily Watson | Katheryn Winnick | Lauren Ambrose | Paul Giamatti
Michael says: “Okay, I saw a good movie last night. And it was one I knew very little about going in, which is always fun. COLD SOULS stars Paul Giamatti as… well, Paul Giamatti! Paul is rehearsing ‘Uncle Vanya’ and
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