Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Kieran Mulcare | Matthew Fifer
Starring: Colbie Smulders | Jazmin Grace Grimaldi | Matthew Fifer | Michael Potts | Sandra Bauleo | Scott Adsit | Sheldon D. Brown
Michael says: “I was excited. It looked like there was going to be one of those rare American-made, gay-themed films that I might actually like in CICADA. It had a 93% Tomatometer, critics approval rating, and it just looked kind-of
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Alexia Fast | Jason Blicker | Mireille Enos | Rosario Dawson | Ryan Reynolds | Scott Speedman
Michael says: “Sadly, despite some strong performances by Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, and Mireille Enos, Egoyan’s latest film THE CAPTIVE, became the first of his films to disappoint me. Billed as a psychological thriller, had it stayed in that realm it
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Yann Demange
Starring: Bel Powley | Brian Tyree Henry | Bruce Dern | Eddie Marsan | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Matthew McConaughey | Piper Laurie | Richie Merritt | Rory Cochrane | Taylour Paige
Thom says: “I’m more than a little tired of this genre trying hard to make basic nogoodniks into sympathetic, likable sorts, They’ve tried to make these films workable since the beginning of genre filmmaking, but this one, despite musts-see McConaughey,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Chrius Weitz
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Greg Hill | Greta Scacchi | Mélanie Laurent | Michael Aronov | Michael Benjamin Hernandez | Oscar Isaac | Pêpê Rapazote
Thom says: “Musts-see Isaac & Ben Kingsley drove me to watch this but the Israeli capture of the notorious Adolf Eichmann in Argentina years after the end of WWII is tedious. Kingsley hams it up pretty good.
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Dan Fogelman
Starring: Annette Bening | Antonio Banderas | Jean Smart | Mandy Patinkin | Olivia Wilde | Oscar Isaac | Samuel L. Jackson | Sergio Peris-Mencheta
Thom says: “Once I realized that the director is largely responsible for the mediocre television hit THIS IS US, I should have avoided it. A NYC couple’s tragic story reverberates over continents and lifetimes, no, really. I always enjoy Oscar
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jim Henson
Starring: David Bowie | Frank Oz | Jennifer Connelly | Shari Weiser | Shelley Thompson | Toby Froud
Michael says: “I have a dirty little secret… I’m not a fan of the muppets. I know, it’s sacrilege, but I enjoyed Sesame St. as a child, but I never really got into the Muppet Show, nor did I enjoy
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Geeta Malik
Starring: Adil Hussain | Ashritha Kancharla | Manisha Koirala | Moses Das | Rish Shah | Sophia Ali | Thomas Kasp
Vicki says: “INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES is an Indian inter-generational coming of age film. It tries to take on too many themes and , as a result, it falls flat. It has some good moments and a fine performance by
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Noah Dixon | Ori Segev
Starring: Abdul Seidu | Bobbi Kitten | Drew Johnson | Nick Samson | Rachel Keefe | Sylvie Mix
Michael says: “POSER starts off promisingly enough, with Lennon, a introverted young woman who starts a podcast to profile the indie musicians populating the vibrant Columbus, OH music scene. She attends shows and interviews a variety of musicians, adding in
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Dennis Miller | Gillian Armstrong | John O'May | Margo Lee | Max Cullen | Norman Erskine | oey Kennedy | Pat Evison | Ross O'Donovan
Michael says: “I watched this bizarre Australian musical after hearing about it on the Brattle’s podcast. I was intrigued because it was the second feature narrative film by the talented director Gillian Armstrong; a very bizarre follow-up to her amazing
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Sean Gannet
Starring: Greyson Cage | Jeremy Sisto | Kevin Chapman | Neil Brown Jr. | Nicky Whelan | Ryan Canale
Chris says: “The poster and the premise might lead one to expect another low-budget, mean-streets-of-Boston crime drama; thankfully, this goes a little deeper than that set-up. 25 years after a traumatic event that we only see fragments of until its full
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