Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Tom Hooper
Jason says: “There was talk fairly close to its release about THE DANISH GIRL being nearly three hours long, although that turned out to be a working print and the actual finished film is a more standard two. With the
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jalmari Helander
Jason says: “Kids used to ride bikes to the theater to see movies like BIG GAME; as opposed to dialing up a video-on-demand service, and, man, that’s just an indication that most of them wouldn’t be able to handle what
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Yang Xiao
Starring: Cici Wang | Dong Zijian | Li Jiaqi | Sun Hongle | Wang Yuexin | Zhou Dongyu
Jason says: “The likely-studio-supplied boilerplate that has shown up in a lot of listings about THE ARK OF MR. CHOW describes it as a satirical look at the Chinese ‘Youth Class’ system, and if it’s what passes for satire in
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Diana Whitten
Chris says: “Founded by Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, Women on Waves is an organization that assists women with having abortions who live in countries where the procedure is illegal. VESSEL spends over a decade following Gomperts and her crew as
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Rohit Shetty
Starring: Ajay Devgn | Amole Gupta | Anumpam Kher | Kareena Kapoor | Sharat Saxena | Zakir Hussain
Jason says: “Not having seen Ajay Devgn’s first go-round as Bajirao Singham, I have no idea of this sequel – which stands alone well enough – is an improvement or disappointment relatively speaking. There are elements that suggest it could
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: William Eubank
Starring: Beau Knap | Brenton Thwaites | Lawrence Fishburne | Olivia Cooke
Jason says: “Mystery is not enough. Don’t misunderstand, it’s terrific when a story gets one to lean closer, tantalized by what’s going on, and creating that feeling is a matter of much more than leaving some details out while hinting
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Zack Parker
Starring: Alexa Havins | Alexia Rasmussen | Joe Swanberg | Kristina Klebe
Jason says: “Give PROXY filmmaker Zack Parker this: Unlike many movies that wind up labeled ‘horror’, his delivers something that its audience will want to put out of their heads afterward because it doesn’t bear thinking about. Unfortunately, he keeps
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Yoon Jong-bin
Starring: Cho Jin-woong | Gang Dong-won | Ha Jung-woo | Kim Jong-goo | Lee Sung-min | Yoon Ji-hye
Jason says: “Sometimes, a movie spends so long introducing itself that it barely has time to do anything, which feels like the case for KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT. I think it’s because this movie wants so badly to be
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: David Dobkin
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton | Dax Shepard | Grace Zabriskie | Jeremy Strong | Robert Downey Jr | Robert Duvall | Vera Farmiga | Vincent D'Onofrio
Thom says: “This is a bulging, pompous, treacly mess of a film that has big bucks written all over it. Here Downey Jr. (he takes his A-List status very seriously these days) plays a Chicago defense lawyer of dubious moral
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: JB Sapienza | Phil Healy
Jason says: “I wonder where filmmakers start and wind up, in terms of motivation and attitude, when making something like MY NAME IS JONAH. It seems awfully cynical if the final product is what they envisioned, but if not… Well,
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