Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Starring: Brit Marling | Laetia Casta | Nate Parker | Richard Gere | Stuart Margolin | Susan Sarandon | Tim Roth
Chris says: “When you have a lead character whose actions are as extremely despicable as those of Robert Miller, you need an actor so rakishly charming as to avoid alienating your audience. Aging like fine cheese, silver-haired Richard Gere nearly
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Jessica Lange | Sam Shepard | Sarah Polley | Tim Roth
Michael says: “Wim Wenders’ latest film based on a play by Sam Shepard relies a little too much on forced whimsy to be truly successful. When an aging matinee idol discovers that he fathered a child years ago, he returns
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Billy Zane | Chris Cooper | Danny Huston | Daryl Hannah | Kris Kristofferson | Maria Bello | Mary Kay Place | Richard Dreyfuss | Thora Birch | Tim Roth
Diane says: “Didn’t John Sayles’ movies used to be good? Especially after seeing MARIA FULL OF GRACE, this pic dealing with undocumented laborers is bad. It looks bad. The script is bad. Exposition is belabored (even going so far as
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Amanda Plummer | Bud Cort | Gloria Stuart | Jeremy Davies | Jimmy Smitts | Mel Gibson | Milla Jovovich | Peter Stormare | Tim Roth
Laura says: “Taken from a story idea by Bono and directed by Wim Wenders, THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL is really a mess of a movie. The cast includes Mel Gibson as an FBI man hired by a billionaire to investigate
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