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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ricky Staub
Starring: Caleb McLaughlin | Idris Elba | Lorraine Toussaint | Method Man
Chris says: “Urban western or sentimental coming-of-age tale? A bit of both, as a troubled teen sent to gritty North Philadelphia to spend the summer with the father he never met learns to love himself and find a purpose in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sam Pollard
Chris says: “As much about the acronym after the slash as the one before it, this slick but stimulating doc tracks both the slain civil rights leader and the J. Edgar Hoover-led government agency throughout the 1960s. As King’s influence
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Benjamin Voisin | Félix Lefebvre | Philippine Velge
Chris says: “Francois Ozon’s umpteenth feature is cinematic comfort food, a queer, coming-of-age period romance set in a beautifully shabby town off the Normandy coast. The twist (partially revealed at the start) and flashback structure distinguishes this from other like-minded
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michel Franco
Starring: Dario Yazbek Bernal | Patricia Bernal | Samantha Yazareth Anaya
Chris says: “After a flurry of brief, tantalizing, brutal images, NEW ORDER begins at a Mexico wedding attended by one-percenters; it’s best to go into the rest not knowing much more except that the first third is near-perfect in how
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Maïmouna Doucouré
Starring: Esther Gohourou | Fathia Youssouf | Ilanah Cami-Goursolas | Médina El Aidi-Azouni
Michael says: “Diane suggested we watch the film CUTIES for our weekly film discussion because of all the controversy it had been getting, and I’m glad she did, because otherwise I probably never would have watched it. Apparently most of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerals
Starring: Adrian Grenier | Jacki Weaver | Lucy Liu | Mya Taylor
Michael says: “Director Thom Fitzgerald was part of the cavalcade of talent present at our 10th Awards Ceremony, way back in 2004 with his debut film, HANGING GARDEN, taking the special Vanguard Award. His latest film, STAGE MOTHER, has got
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Starring: Asami Mizukawa | Dai Watanabe | Motoki Fukami | Tomohisa Yuge
Jason says: “It’s tough not to get just a little excited during the opening sequence of HIGANJIMA, because it makes a thoroughly enjoyable statement: That putting a stake through a vampire’s heart is for people who aren’t truly committed to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard | Jamie Bell | Richard Madden | Taron Egerton
Thom says: “This is a tough film for me to review because although I’ve been a great lover of music throughout my life I never liked Elton John. Over the years he only had a minuscule number of songs I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shola Amoo
Starring: Denise Black | Gbemisola Ikumelo | Nicholas Pinnock
Michael says: “THE LAST TREE is a coming-of-age story about a Nigerian-born boy named Femi who is growing up in England. For reasons we are not entirely certain of, Femi spends his early years in foster care with a nurturing
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Karen Maines
Starring: Alisha Boe | Francesca Reale | Natalia Dyer | Susan Blackwell | Timothy Simons | Wolfgang Novogratz
Chris says: “As someone who had to attend a Catholic school retreat or two as a teen, what’s depicted here feels more heightened and strident than my own experiences, but I was so entertained by Timothy Simons as a bearded
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