Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shira Piven
Chris says: “Welcome to The Kristen Wiig Show—what other famous comedic actress could you possibly cast as Alice Klieg, a woman diagnosed with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery and spends all her earnings funding her very own Oprah-esque
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Hossein Amini
Starring: Daisy Bevan | David Warshofsky | Kirsten Dunst | Oscar Isaac | Ozan Tas | Viggo Mortensen | Yigit Özsener
Thom says: “Unfortunately, this turned out to be Patricia Highsmith-light. There’s been quite a few high-quality films that have been made from her works including THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THE CRY OF THE OWL (twice, even once by Chabrol), PURPLE
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sang-woo Lee
Starring: Park Hyung-bin | Sang-woo Lee | Yang Myung-hun
Jason says: “‘Just jerk off when your brother tells you to’ isn’t quite the first line of I AM TRASH, but it’s close and gets the audience’s attention. It also turns out to be one of the less horrific moments
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Christopher Menaul
Starring: Dan Stevens | Daphne Neville | Dominic Cooper | Jane Cussons
Jason says: “SUMMER IN FEBRUARY takes place in 1913 Cornwall, which had become an artists’ colony, and in some ways that community is more interesting than any of the people in it. There’s nothing wrong with the story the filmmakers
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Stuart Acher
Starring: Abraham Benrubi | Joel David Moore | Madeline Zima
Jason says: “Given that its name is a hashtag, one might expect #STUCK to have social media play some sort of central part of the story, and maybe cringe at the inevitable mishandling. Fortunately, filmmaker Stuart Acher doesn’t choose to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Albert Serra
Kyle says: “STORY OF MY DEATH is the work of a true provocateur, and it is much easier to quote what Albert Serra says than to describe what he does. He gleefully quotes a friend saying that ‘this is a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ti West
Starring: AJ Bowen | Amy Seimetz | Gene Jones | Joe Swanberg | Kentucker Audley
Jason says: “The text at the beginning of THE SACRAMENT describes the journalistic style of its protagonists as ‘immersionism’, and I suspect that this is writer/director Ti West’s goal as well – getting the audience inside a situation that it
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Michôd
Starring: David Field | Gillian Green | Guy Pearce | Robert Pattinson | Scoot McNairy | Tawanda Manyimo
Jason says: “I went into THE ROVER already thinking about how Australia seems to churn out more than its share of post-apocalyptic movies (post-‘collapse’ in this case), at least among the ones worth remembering. It’s probably at least partially convenience
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jon Stewart
Starring: Amir El-Masry | Gael García Bernal | Kim Bodina | Shohreh Aghdashloo
Jason says: “I want more from ROSEWATER, but I’m not exactly sure what I want more of. More obvious suffering and torment on the part of its protagonist would certainly drive the point home better, but demanding that seems callous
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Lau
Starring: Billy Magnussen | Harry Shum Jr. | Jin Auyuen | Justin Chon | Kevin Wu | Leonard Wu | Ray Liotta
Jason says: “Don’t let some of the pedigree that REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS can whip out fool you – executive producer/’presenter’ Martin Scorsese and co-director Andrew Lau have made some transcendent gangster movies, but this one is more or
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