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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Leon
Starring: Claire Buchanan | David Ajala | Lauren Colasanti | Maya Hawke | Simon Brickner | Taylor Clanton | Vanessa Kirby
Michael says: “This is a curious, nearly experimental film that rides mainly on the strength of Vanessa Kirby’s performance. In a dreamlike sojourn through a New York City night, Kirby plays Alina Reynolds, a writer of a collection of short
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Talya Lavie
Starring: Avigail Harari | Elisha Banai | Meir Suissa | Orly Silbersatz | Ran Danker | Yael Folman
Michael says: “This Israeli film joins the ranks of fun and whacky movies about everything going wrong overnight in a big city. Newlyweds arrive at their luxurious hotel suite after the reception festivities and quickly break down into a fight
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen
Chris says: “Two intertwined documentaries for the price of one, following a family of vintners in France and father-and-son cannabis farmers in Northern California. While it partially draws parallels between the two sets of subjects (in particular focusing on the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Celeste Bell | Paul Sng
Chris says: “As the female, biracial lead singer for the British punk band X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene was an undeniable trailblazer: self-styled and decked out in braces, she sang/shouted her own provocative lyrics and was briefly a counterculture star. This is
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Euros Lyn
Starring: Damian Lewis | Joanna Page | Karl Johnson | Nicholas Farrell | Owen Teale | Peter Davison | Siân Phillips | Toni Collette
Chris says: “Based on a true story, this film about a middle-aged Welsh woman (Toni Collette) breeding a prize-winning race horse is thoroughly predictable but considerably engaging fluff. You’ve seen all this before: the protagonist who interrupts her everyday tedium
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Clark Johnson
Starring: Adam Beach | Christina Ricci | Christopher Walken | Luke Kirby | Martin Donovan | Peter Stebbings | Roberta Maxwell | Zach Braff
Michael says: “I’m sure many of you saw the documentary THE CORPORATION when it was released in 2004. One segment of this harrowing tale featured a lawsuit brought to bear on a Canadian farmer after he unknowingly grew and harvested
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Brittany Murphy | Eminem | Evan Jones | Kim Basinger | Mekhi Phifer | Omar Benson Miller
Laura says: “”Producer Brian Grazer combines his passion for hip hop with a prestige director (Curtis Hanson, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL), a music superstar and a Rockyesque genre script for a solid commercial outing. 8 MILE isn’t a great film, but it is
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Joe Penna
Starring: Anna Kendrick | Daniel Dae Kim | Shamier Anderson | Toni Collette
Michael says: “STOWAWAY is serviceable science fiction flick about a doomed mission to Mars and the four people on board who must race against the clock to find the slimmest chances of survival. It’s what I call an ethical thriller,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Amjad Abu Alala
Starring: Bonna Khalid | Islam Mubarak | Moatasem Rashed | Mustafa Shehata | Talal Afifi
Michael says: “This audacious debut film, the first Oscar entry from Sudan, is a fable of sorts, about a young man trapped by his destiny. When Sakina present her newborn infant to the Sheikh to be named, he informs her
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Al Pacino | Anna Paquin | Bobby Cannavale | Harvey Keitel | Jack Huston | Jesse Plemons | Joe Pesci | Kathrine Narducci | Ray Romano | Robert De Niro | Stephen Graham | Steven Van Zandt
Thom says: “Let me be perfectly clear, director Scorsese has had a hugely successful career both financially & artistically and while I have highly admired a lot of his material, only 2 of his films received my highest rating: THE
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