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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.375
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Starring: Dae Al Hilali | Khadeeja Mua'th | Khalid Abdulraheem | Mila Al Zahrani | Nora Al Awad | Shafi Alharthy | Tareq Al Khaldi
Bob says: “Maryam, a doctor who works at a hospital in a small city in Saudi Arabia, is looking for ways to improve her life. She regularly deals with patients who have no respect for her and would rather be
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Rating: 3.375 | 3.5 cats
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Starring: Agustí Villaronga | Catrinel Marlon | Rodica Lazar | Vlad Ivanov
Jeffrey says: “This Buried Treasure-eligible piece from Romanian director, Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST, THE TREASURE), is billed as a heist movie, but, in its gritty meditation on corruption, bears little resemblance to its glossy Hollywood counterparts. Cristi (Vlad Ivanov)
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Sally Potter
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Alice Englert | Annette Bening | Christina Hendricks | Elle Fanning | Jodhi May | Oliver Platt | Timothy Spall
Thom says: “Here’s another atrocious film from the vastly overpraised Sally Potter, & I never seem able to learn my lesson. I did give her first film ORLANDO my highest rating, perhaps in retrospect more for the presence of the
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Jason Cortland | Julia Halperin
Starring: Almex Lee | Gabrielle Maisels | Jason Cortland | Tiffany Esteb
Bruce says: “Written and co-directed by Jason Cortland, NOW, FORAGER also stars the handsome, somewhat off-beat actor. Cortland plays Lucien Echeverria, a thirty-something who, with his wife Regina (Tiffany Esteb), makes a meager living by foraging the forests north of
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Analeigh Tipton | Carrie MacLemore | Greta Gerwig | Megalyn Echikunwoke | Ryan Metcalf
Thom says: “Here was a humongous surprise, not because I don’t have an enormous respect for director Whit Stillman (I’d given 5 CATS to all his movies: METROPOLITAN [1990], BARCELONA [1994], & THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO [1998], liking each
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Christophe Honoré
Starring: Guy Marchand | Joana Preiss | Louis Garrel | Marie-France Pisier | Romain Duris
Bruce says: “Director Christophe Honoré has created a delightful offbeat comedy about family, friendship, love and loss. Louis Garrel begins by facing the camera and telling the audience he will be the narrator of the story. We don’t know who
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Sally Potter
Starring: Joan Allen | Sam Neill | Shirley Henderson | Simon Akbarian
Michael says: “YES is a challenging and ambitious film. You would expect no less from Sally Potter, the director of ORLANDO and THE TANGO LESSON. It has been a couple of weeks since I saw the film and I still
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Carola Regnier | Caroline Peters | Ernest Lenart | Gideon Shemer | Hanns Zischler | Knut Berger | Lior Ashkenazi
Hilary says: “Lior Ashkenazi (LATE MARRIAGE) stars in Eytan Fox’s (YOSSI & JAGGER) latest movie as Eyal, an Israeli Mossad assassin, who has been assigned to investigate a Nazi officer at the behest of his boss, Menachem (Gideon Schemer). “Menachem
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Debra Monk | Ellen Barkin | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Matthew Faber | Richard Masur | Sharon Wilkins
Hilary says: “Not quite as aggressively offensive as HAPPINESS or STORYTELLING, but overall PALINDROMES is one unpleasant viewing experience.” 1 cat Rick says: “Oh for crying out loud, why is it that so few people seem to like PALINDROMES?!
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Laura Linney | Liam Neeson | Peter Sarsgaard
Diane says: “Uncontroversial movie about a controversial subject. In quality very much like SEABISCUIT. 1 cat.” Chris replies: “Which is good news, I guess, if you liked SEABISCUIT… “Liam Neeson is fine as the good doctor (if only Ian McKellen
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