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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ruben Öslund
Starring: Charlbi Dean | Dolly De Leon | Harris Dickinson | Jorma Björkman | Vicki Berlin | Woody Harrelson | Zlatko Buric
Brett says: “A follow-up from director Ruben Öslund’s FORCE MAJEURE, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS is a dark satire that some will call ingenious layering and build, while others will leave scratching their heads with doubt as to how anyone could praise
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Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Starring: Jun Kunimura | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Michiel Huisman | Miku Patricia Martineau | Miyavi | Tadanobu Asano | Woody Harrelson
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 Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: John Carroll Lynch | Kathy Bates | Kevin Costner | Woody Harrelson
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Abbie Cornish | Christopher Walken | Colin Farrell | Gabourey Sidibe | Michael Pitt | Michael Stuhlberg | Sam Rockwell | Woody Harrelson
Diane says: “Acting Nom for Christopher Walken, as a gentle psychopath caring for his wife hospitalized with breast cancer. I’ve seen most of director Martin McDonagh’s plays, and his IN BRUGES, and I love his over-the-top combo of sweetness and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oren Moverman
Starring: Ben Foster | Eamonn Walker | Jena Malone | Samantha Morton | Steve Buscemi | Woody Harrelson | Yaya DaCosta
Jason says: “THE MESSENGER has no problem with making the audience a little uncomfortable. What might, in another movie, have been a bittersweet romance between Ben Foster’s Will Montgomery (a wounded soldier serving the end of his hitch informing next
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brad Anderson
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Eduardo Noriega | Emily Mortimer | Kate Mara | Thomas Kretschmann | Woody Harrelson
Jason says: “The train thriller is almost a genre in itself: You get a group of people on a train, something bad happens, and the characters have to figure out who can’t be trusted by the rest, and the impending
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zak Penn
Starring: Cheryl Hines | Chris Parnell | David Cross | Dennis Farina | Richard Kind | Werner Herzog | Woody Harrelson
Michael says: “After mining the mock-documentary genre for some laughs, Zak Penn, known for writing blockbuster, superhero flicks, tackles the improvisational comedy genre a la Christopher Guest with fairly amusing results. THE GRAND gives us a comedic look into the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring: Beth Grant | Javier Bardem | Josh Brolin | Kelly McDonald | Tommy Lee Jones | Woody Harrelson
Barbara says: “Definitely one of my favorites this year. A film that makes you think about chance and how we react to what life throws at us. Hard to figure out who the heroes really are. The Coens have done
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Richard Lanklater
Starring: Angela Rawna | Chamblee Ferguson | Keanu Reeves | Mitch Baker | Robert Downey Jr | Rory Cochrane | Winona Ryder | Woody Harrelson
Chris says: “In 2001, Richard Linklater’s WAKING LIFE merged live action with animation via a process called ‘interpolated rotoscoping,’ creating a fluid visual tableau that one could best liken to watching a painting coming to life. Much of its appeal
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