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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Gaspar Antillo
Starring: Alejandro Goic | Eduardo Paxeco | Jorge Garcia | Luis Gnecco | Lukas Vergara | Millaray Lobos | Vicente Alvarez
Toni says: “This debut feature from Chile’s Gaspar Antillo deserves Buried Treasure consideration and for Use Of Music In A Film. It is a well-made small-town story about a man recalling his past of being bullied for his appearance, in
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Nicolás Pereda
Starring: Francisco Barreiro | Gabino Rodríguez | Luisa Pardo
Chris says: “Strange little thing about a woman introducing her boyfriend to her family. It plays like a Mexican episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm directed by Roy Andersson: slow, deadpan, full of crossed wires and subtle digressions. I alternately laughed
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Adele Haenel | Albert Delpy | Coralie Russier | Jean Dujardin
Chris says: “Not as inventive or all-out gonzo as RUBBER or WRONG, but neither of those had the weird chemistry that materializes between Jean Dujardin’s weasel-like enigma and Adele Haenel’s at first bemused, then all-in co-conspirator. So, I’m thankful Quentin
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Lulu Wang
Starring: Awkwafina | Diana Lim | Jim Liu | Shuzhen Zhao | Tzi Ma
Chris says: “Putting aside its novel narrative hook (‘based on an actual lie”), THE FAREWELL is the latest in a long tradition of family wedding films; it’s also one of the more relatable, realistic depictions of such I’ve seen in
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Bob Nelson
Starring: Clive Owen | Jaeden Lieberher | Maria Bello | Matthew Modine | Patton Oswalt | Stephen Tobolowsky
Jason says: “The title of THE CONFIRMATION doesn’t do it a lot of favors, unless the misadventures that its characters go through parallel that particular Catholic ritual in ways that aren’t particularly obvious to those of us who don’t share
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
Starring: David Clayton Rogers | Lucy Griffiths | Mark Webber | Rainn Wilson
Jason says: “UNCANNY jokes about the Turing Test casually enough to make even longtime science fiction fans marvel a bit at how the phrase has started to enter the general lexicon in the last few years. The go-to reference for
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Jinglei Xu
Starring: Gordon Alexander | Jinglei Xu | Likun Wang | Yifan Wu
Jason says: “The movie listings this Valentine’s Day are weird: The big studio release is FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and in that spirit, my local theaters are pulling out prints of SECRETARY, bringing THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY back for a
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Hong Seok-Jae
Starring: Byeon Yo-han | Jeon Sin-hwan | Lee Ju-seung | Park Keun-Rok | Yoo-ram Bae
Jason says: “The inciting incident of SOCIALPHOBIA is never shown on-screen, just the social-media reaction to it, and that sort of feels right. It’s easy to get caught up in something online without having been there at the start, or
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Henry Hobson
Jason says: “Show me MAGGIE at a genre film festival with a cast of unknowns, and I likely react with unreserved excitement. That is, after all, the natural life-cycle and scale of movies such which play with genre conventions the
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Gu Chang-wei
Jason says: “There’s a potentially great movie-industry satire inside LOVE ON THE CLOUD wrapped in a layer of romantic comedy just thick enough that a viewer will likely wonder whether director Gu Chang-wei and company are doing for something very
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