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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Simon Bird
Starring: Alice Lowe | Earl Cave | Elliot Speller-Gillott | Monica Dolan | Ony Uhiara | Rob Brydon | Tamsin Greig
Michael says: “This warm and funny coming-of-age film looks at a single mom and her teenaged son navigating an awkward summer trying to move forward together after a disappointment. When Daniel’s father disinvites his son from a trip to Florida
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Radu Ciorniciuc
Chris says: “After awhile, I couldn’t tell whether or not this was a documentary, which I guess is a good thing? That is, unless it was manipulated to get preferred results. Either way, it’s a fascinating story that mostly plays out
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Gibson
Starring: Andrew Yackel | Geoff Van Wyck | Hannah Mosqueda | Justin Pietropaolo | Leigh Lanocha | Mary Hronicek | Paul Kandarian
Diane says: “Highly recommended. GUTTERBUG was made by longtime Allston roomies and shot mostly in Allston (a section of Boston). It’s an original story of street life, addiction, and the strong pull of family. Reminded me of REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Beanie Feldstein | Laurie Metcalf | Lois Smith | Lucas Hedges | Saoirse Ronan | Timothée Chalamet | Tracy Letts
Philip says: “Someone once commented to me on what I believe is one of the best gay male films ever produced, WEEKEND. The friend (who is straight) told me he just didn’t get the hype. To him it was just
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Alicia Silverstone | Barry Keoghan | Colin Farrell | Nicole Kidman | Raffey Cassidy
Chris says: “Probably the weakest of Yorgos Lanthimos’ last four features but still worth a look. I winced at the make-or-break opening shot but I also kind of admired it, especially once I fully understood its context. Surely a more
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Gloria Steinem | Julianne Moore | Lulu Wilson | Ryan Kiera Armstrong
Philip says: “Finally got around to watching THE GLORIAS, a biopic on Gloria Steinem from producer, director, and screenwriter (along with Sarah Ruhl) Julie Taymor. THE GLORIAS consist of four actresses playing Gloria Steinem at different points in her life,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Miranda July
Starring: Da'Vine Joy Rudolph | Debra Winger | Diana Maria Riva | Evan Rachel Wood | Gina Rodriguez | Mark Ivanir | Richard Jenkins
Michael says: “Many find Miranda July’s work a little too precious, or twee. It’s definitely unique and has a certain style of its own, but I’m a big admirer of her work. Her first feature film, ME AND YOU AND
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Xinyuan Zheng Lu
Starring: Dan Liu | Dong Kangning | Jin Jing | John Zhou | Ye Hongming | Zhou Chen
Michael says: “In a beautiful homage to the films of the French New Wave, first time feature director Zheng Lu, takes a melancholy look at a young woman returning home to divorced parents and wandering streets and the memories of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Phillip Youmans
Starring: Braelyn Kelly | Dominique McClellan | Karen Kaia Livers | Wendell Pierce
Michael says: “A harsh look at poverty in rural Louisiana, with shadowy imagery, poetic narration, and wrongs suggested, but not seen create the tapestry that is BURNING CANE. The film opens with a woman telling the story of her faithful,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Eugene Ashe
Starring: Aja Naomi King | Alano Miller | Eva Longoria | Jemima Kirke | Nnamdi Asomugha | Regé-Jean Page | Tessa Thompson | Tone Bell
Michael says: “Sylvie works at her father’s record store to kill time waiting for her fiancee to come back home from the Korean War in 1957, but all she really wants to do is break into TV. That is until she
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