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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Chase Infiniti | Leonardo DiCaprio | Regina Hall | Sean Penn | Teyana Taylor
Diane says: “Hip hip hooray for PT Anderson! His new ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is an intense thrill ride (like BUGONIA is intense, but you’re happier afterwards). Deserving of a screenplay nom for updating Pynchon’s Vineland (once I get my
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Director: Christy Hall
Starring: Dakota Johnson | Marcos A. Gonzalez | Sean Penn | Shannon Gannon | Zola Lloyd
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Starring: Gbenga Akinnagbe | Katherine Waterston | Michael Pitt | Sean Penn | Tye Sheridan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Christy Hall
Starring: Dakota Johnson | Marcos A. Gonzalez | Sean Penn | Shannon Gannon
Brett says: “DADDIO is the first feature film from director Christy Hall. This is a one-location, two-character film that unfolds within a cab ride from JFK Airport to Hell’s Kitchen. Hall is a playwright through and through, so it may
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Alana Haim | Benny Safdie | Bradley Cooper | Cooper Hoffman | Jon Peters | Maya Rudolph | Sean Penn | Tom Waits
Chris says: “Not as shaggy or wacky as INHERENT VICE but pretty damn close at times. Magnificently directed, as usual. Could’ve done without the whole Penn/Waits sequence but only if it allowed time for more Hoffman/Haim sparring–at peak moments, their
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Director: Sean Penn
Starring: Addison Tymec | Dylan Penn | Josh Brolin | Katheryn Winnick | Mitchell Nguyen-McCormick | Regina King | Sean Penn | Tom Anniko
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Adrien Brody | Ben Chaplin | Elias Koteas | George Clooney | Jared Leto | Jim Caviezel | John C. Reilly | John Cusack | Sean Penn | Tim Blake Nelson | Woody Harrelson
By Michael Colford
Director: Tim Robbins
Starring: Celia Weston | Lois Smith | R. Lee Ermey | Raymond J. Barry | Robert Prosky | Sean Penn | Susan Sarandon
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Farhad Safinia
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Jennifer Ehle | Mel Gibson | Natalie Dormer | Sean Penn
Thom says: “This film has a troubled history (& is not to be confused with the recent Johnny Depp bomb THE PROFESSOR); after being completed in 2016 it wasn’t released until this year. Mel Gibson was attracted to the project
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Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Brad Pitt | Hunter McCracken | Jessica Chastain | Laramie Eppler | Sean Penn
Brett says: “Consistent garden imagery and images of ‘faded paradise’ as the eldest allows weeds to grow and so forth fit some really subtle Biblical tie-ins throughout. As far as the brothers, there is also an interesting ‘Am I my
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