Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Sara Johnsen
Starring: David Dencik | Kristoffer Joner | Mads Sjøgård Pettersen | Maria Bonnevie | Maria Heiskanen
Thom says: “This desultory film was much more appreciated by filmgoer Beth but I just didn’t get it. We learn first off that two brothers lie dead in a remote forest with a woman barely alive lying beside them. William
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Justin Reitman
Starring: Charlize Theron | Collette Wolfe | Elizabeth Reaser | Patrick Wilson | Patton Oswalt
Diane says: “Major disappointment! Maybe I was too excited by my sister’s prediction that YA would be the female CHUCK AND BUCK. Maybe I’ve been too captivated by the cringeworthy, edgy dialogue of the Duplass brothers. YA’s story is flat
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Daming Chen
Starring: Andy Lau | Chengru Li | Daming Chen | Gong Li | Jing Hu | Kelly Hu | Osric Chau
Jason says: “It’s bad enough that WHAT WOMEN WANT is a romantic comedy that has deficiencies were both halves of the term are concerned, relying on its stars’ charm to get the audience to ignore writing that is sloppy and
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Emilio Estevez
Starring: Deborah Kara Unger | Emilio Estevez | James Nesbitt | Martin Sheen | Yorick van Wageningen
Diane says: “Emilio Estevez, you’re no screenwriter. I say that with some sadness, since I did have a crush on him in the ’80s. “Martin Sheen and director/writer Estevez play father and son, frustrated in their relationship. Healing comes on
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Gus Van Zant
Starring: Henry Hopper | Lusia Strus | Mia Wasikowska | Ryo Kase | Schuyler Fisk
Thom says: “Gus Van Sant has long been one of my favorite directors with his only real flop being EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES which he reportedly made during his period of being totally distraught after the tragic death of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Starring: Amanda Bauer | Brett Jacobsen | Claire Sloma | Jade Ramsey | Marlon Morton | NikitaRamsey
Julie says: “There was one funny moment in the grocery store at the beginning of the movie which involves a loud speaker. Feel free to turn the movie off after that. The rest just seemed very amateurish to me and
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ash Christian
Starring: Charles Solomon Jr. | Heather Matarazzo | Jennifer Coolidge | Ryan Boggus
Chris says: “Ash Christian’s debut feature FAT GIRLS wasn’t a great film, but it wasn’t bad for being written, directed and produced by a 21-year-old (he starred in it, too). A tad slapdash but often hilarious, it positioned him as
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Carl Colby
Diane says: “CIA director William Colby’s son gets on the filial doc bandwagon. But there are drawbacks to a film intended to show the opacity of its subject. E.g., you feel like you’ve wasted your time. The only parts I
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Craig Teper
Diane says: “I caught this at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, where another patron complained justifiably that the movie wasn’t Jewish enough. We see Sassoon in a synagogue with his kippe at the start of the film, then a very
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Jude Law | Mark Strong | Rachel McAdams | Robert Downey Jr | Robert Maillet
Thom says: “Hmmm… Admittedly, I have no respect at all for fake macho director Ritchie, and while this film is fitfully entertaining, finally let’s attack it for esthetic reasons. This was adapted from a comic book of all mediums but
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