Recent Reviews by Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Westhampton

Horsegirls

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

Summer Tour

The Kidnapping of Arabella

Bad Counselors

Her Private Hell

Pinocchio Unstrung

Cruel Hands

Haunted Heist

Black Chariot

The Floaters

Do You Love Me

The Isolate Thief

Mockbuster

Night Nurse

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Remake

The Town That Takes

Rhythm is a Dancer

Sugar Beach

The Get Out

The Battle of Oslo

I Know Who You Are

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Gangland

Swallowtail & Dragonfly

Roid

Baby Doe

Barrio Triste

Goat Girl

Hell Trotter

A Mosquito in the Ear

Road to Everywhere

Shoot the People

Unidentified

Mare’s Nest

Bouchra

Camp

Couture

Underland

I Am Frankelda

Flag Day

O Horizon

Promised Sky

This Tempting Madness

In the Hand of Dante

Us in the End

Gregg Allman: The Music Of My Soul

Girls Like Girls

Chum

Another World

Iowa Vet: Dogs, Cats, Corn, & Murder

The Last Whale Singer

Jinsei

The Little Sister

Savage House

The Passenger

She’s the He

Signal One

Forestera

Fucktoys

The Last Viking

Renoir

Rich Flu

Time and Water

With Hasan in Gaza

Revolutionary America
The Easy Kind

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Everybody to Kenmure Street

Giant

May Contain: My Life

Matador Bolero

Saccharine

The 47

Tuner

Crossing a Dawn

The Currents

Driver’s Ed

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe

Being Towards Death

Decorado

Diamonds

Forge

Life Hack

Vanishing Point

Magic Hour

Ask E. Jean

Save the Green Planet!

Laks says: “I had only just seen the trailer (regrettably, because it gave faaaarrr to much away) for BUGONIA last night and was very grateful for your review soon after. I jumped straight of bed this morning and went straight
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Adam’s Apple

Michael says: “Nice positive story about growing up trans with a supportive family. Co-written and directed by Amy K. Jenkins the family’s mother, there is an intimacy that might otherwise have been lacking. Still, I felt the overall film was
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Remake

Chris says: “Given our current tendency to document just about everything (especially ourselves) with our smartphones, will younger and future generations retain a seemingly infinite treasure trove of recorded media to reference, look back on and cultivate into living histories?
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Romería

Michael says: “A young woman orphaned as a child, seeks information about her birth parents off the coast of Spain in order to apply for educational grants. She discovers a large family on her father’s side, with dark secrets that
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The Last Yztari

Julie says: “THE LAST YZTARI tells the story of Mary Dague, a woman who lost both arms while diffusing bombs in Iraq (to protect a school), and her struggle to heal and redefine herself. She tried for many years to
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I Want Your Sex

Peter says: “Standing outside in the long film festival line for Gregg Araki’s latest film, inevitably, passersby would ask those in line, ‘What is this line for?’ And you could feel the immediate discomfort on their face when “I Want
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Maddie’s Secret

Eliza says: “From the beginning, I wasn’t sure what the audience was supposed to feel. I first thought it was solely a think-piece on gender. A sort of glimpse into life if one’s gender identity simply wasn’t questioned by others,
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Aanikoobijigan

Cassian says: “The Khalil brothers take us through a deeply emotional decades-long journey of reburying the remains of their ancestors through the process of indigenous repatriation. This documentary follows MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance), a unified group
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Rose of Nevada

Cassian says: “A mysterious fishing boat reappears after 30 years. A young father and a mysterious drifter join the fishing crew in hopes of prosperity but things take an unexpected turn when they get stuck in a time loop. “What
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The Invite

Peter says: “The closing night of IFFBoston is always a bittersweet affair – it’s the official capping off of what to me is basically film nerd summer camp. My volunteer friends of 10+ years were so excited to have gotten
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Filipiñana

Peter says: “Winning the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the Sundance Film Festival, Filipiñana is that kind of slow-moving art film you might need to pinch yourself a few times to keep from nodding off. “The film primarily
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