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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Nicole Riegel
Starring: Erin Reardon | Jenny McManus | KiKi Layne | Melanie Nicholls-King | Thomas Doherty
Brett says: “From director Nicole Riegel, DANDELION is the latest installment of musical drama that showcases the title fictional singer-songwriter in the familiar position of struggling artist. In fact, much of the plot within is familiar territory for many audiences.
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Douglas Smith | Maia Jae Bastidas | Mark O'Brien | Rebecca Liddiard
Michael says: “Atom Egoyan’s first dozen or so films were all fascinating, compelling works that solidified him as one of those filmmakers whose work I will always see. His last four or five have been more erratic, or worse, sometimes
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Starring: Anne Ramsay | Ezra Buzzington | Jeremy Holm | Larry Fessenden | Ron E. Rains
Brett says: “A person kills herself/himself and then a stage play breaks out. So, it’s Chekhov or Ibsen in reverse, right? Throw in a seance to bring back said dead person from the grave and BROOKLYN 45 might just fit
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Rating: 2 cats | 3 cats
Director: Mike Hansen
Starring: Mike Hansen | Raphael Sikic | Ryon Thomas
Brett says: “The genre western-comedy does not exactly have a long list of acclaimed representatives to its credit. In fact, the all-around rugged, image-conscious, hidden-emotions heroic quality of westerns usually means that attaching the word comedy to it is an
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Alice Englert
Starring: Alice Englert | Allistair Sewell | Ana Scotney | Ben Whishaw | Jennifer Connelly
Diane says: “My 4th film ‘at’ Sundance. I’m thinking that maybe it wasn’t a good idea for Alice Englert (daughter of our esteemed Jane Campion) to go all in as writer, director, co-lead, and composer of this mother-daughter-themed film. “Jennifer
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Luke Lorentzen
Diane says: “STILL SMALL VOICE is my second film at virtual Sundance. “I watched this doc about hospital chaplaincy because I went thru some of that training myself. Because chaplaincy training involves so much inner work (for both students and
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Rodrigo Reyes
Diane says: “Director Rodrigo Reyes uses some unorthodox methods in this doc, about a young Mexican man in California, Sansón, who is in prison without parole. Reyes, as part of his day job, served as Sansón’s court interpreter years ago.
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Valerie Buhagiar
Starring: Henry Zammit Cordina | Michela Farrugia | Natascha McElhone | Richard Clarkin | Steven Love
Chris says: “Wants to be a feminist reawakening but it’s just another transformation brought to you by hair dye (and a pigeon.) 2 cats“
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Michael Grandage
Starring: Emma Corrin | Gina McKee | Harry Styles | Linus Roache | Rupert Everett
Chris says: “My policeman has a first name, It’s H-A-R-R-Y; My policeman has a second name, It’s S-T-Y-L-E-(S); Oh, he struggles playing aloof and gay, And the adapted screenplay’s just okay, But David Dawson steals this film; He’s better in
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp
Starring: Dean Fleischer-Camp | Isabella Rossellini | Jenny Slate | Joe Gabler
Vicki says: “I am definitely in the minority on this one. Most people find Jenny Slate’s voice cute and endearing. To me, it sounds like ‘nails on a chalkboard.’ That alone made me feel like running out of the theater.
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