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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Charlotte Vega | Claire Forlani | Gregg Shelton | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Rhys Ifans | Sophie Turner
Jason says: “ANOTHER ME didn’t look like much – a young-adult thriller that likely would have gone straight to video-on-demand but for a slow release week and the fact that the other line on star Sophie Turner’s filmography is ‘Game
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Annette Heywood-Carter
Starring: Bradley Whitford | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Hal Holbrook | Jaimie Alexander | Jim Caviezel
Jason says: “As with many movies based on true stories, SAVANNAH ends with a few screens of text summing up the lives and accomplishments of its subjects, and for Ward Allen it states that he was an eloquent advocate of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Alex Karpovsky
Starring: Alex Karpovsky | Amanda Good Hennessey | Dakota Shepard | Dennis Staroselsky | Jaime Ray Newman
Jason says: “It doesn’t happen very often, but RUBBERNECK is almost too simple to classify. It’s got characteristics of both a thriller and an indie drama of the character-study variety, but the only thing that seems unique about it is
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Rachid Djaïdani
Starring: Sabrina Hamida | Slimane Dazi | Stéphane Soo Mongo
Kyle says: “RENGAINE is called a ‘no-budget urban drama’ in the New Directors/New Films program note; this is obvious from the number of duties director Rachid Djaïdani is credited for in the end titles. So let us issue a shout-out
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Brian DePalma
Starring: Benjamin Sadler | Dominic Raacke | Karoline Herfurth | Noomi Rapace | Paul Anderson | Rachel McAdams | Rainer Bock
Thom says: “It’s been 36 years since director De Palma was in his hey-day as he captured my FILM-OF-THE-YEAR with CARRIE (1976). Since then he’s not been reliable although certainly he’s had such huge successes as SCARFACE and DRESSED TO
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Liz W. Garcia
Starring: Amy Madigan | David Lambert | Joshua Harto | Kristen Bell | Mamie Gummer | Martin Starr
Jason says: “It is, almost undoubtedly, a sign of encroaching middle age that the first thing that annoyed me about THE LIFEGUARD was the way that the characters not even a full generation younger than me acted. But I figured,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Daniele Cipri
Starring: Alfredo Castro | Aurora Quattrocchi | Giselda Volodi | Guiseppe Vitale | Toni Servillo
Bruce says: “The film opens with Busu, a disheveled man in an institutional waiting room, talking to anyone who will listen. It seems he has a story to tell and at first it is impossible to know how he fits
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Takashi Ishii
Starring: Kokone Sasaki | Mitsu Dan | Naoto Takenaka | Tasuku Emoto
Jason says: “HELLO, MY DOLLY GIRLFRIEND (FIGYUA NA ANATA in the original Japanese) is just as bizarre a movie as its name makes it sound, and it gets a little stranger if you start following hyperlinks on the online movie
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Roberta Grossman
Thom says: “Everyone knows the Jewish staple celebration song Hava Nagila. This film tracks the history of the song from its origins in Eastern European shtetls to pedways of the world. It’s been featured in hundreds of films and this
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Adam Leon
Starring: Adam Metzger | Greyson Cruz | Meeko | Sam Soghor | Tashiana Washington | Ty Hickson
Chris says: “Ostensibly about two graffiti artists/small time pot dealers on a quest to tag New York City’s most desired (and untagged) target, the big apple that pops up whenever the Mets hit a home run at Citi Field, GIMME
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