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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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Brooke Smith | David Andrews | Naomi Watts | Norbert Leo Butz | Sean Penn
Jason says: “FAIR GAME is a good movie that is going to have a target on its back for all the wrong reasons. If the story were relocated and names were changed, both its issues and its strengths would be
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Alison Pill | Denis O’Hare | Diego Luna | Emile Hirsch | James Franco | Josh Brolin | Sean Penn | Stephen Spinella | Victor Garber
Bruce says: “Many might call MILK Gus Van Sant’s return to content from his concentration on form in recent films such as GERRY, ELEPHANT, LAST DAYS and PARANOID PARK. The one thing that MILK does have in common with the
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Rating: 2.3
Director: Niels Mueller
Starring: Don Cheadle | Naomi Watts | Sean Penn
Barbara says: “Extremely bleak film which was ‘inspired’ by a true event. For 90% of it I thought Sean Penn was doing a fair imitation of Dustin Hoffman. For the remainder he reprised his role as the mentally challenged character
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