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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.6
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Alia Shawkat | J.K. Simmons | Jake Lacy | Javier Bardem | Linda Lavin | Nicole Kidman | Nina Arianda | Tony Hale
Thom says: “I went into this thinking a million different things. Director Sorkin after making a huge impression as a writer and creator of monster television successes SPORTS NIGHT, THE NEWSROOM, & THE WEST WING, entered the director’s game with
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.
Starring: Chaske Spencer | Jesse Eisenberg | Julian Goppel | Kate Bosworth | Lisa Cromarty | Michael Greyeyes | Phoenix Wilson | Tres Garcia
Julie says: “This film ended with me being frustrated saying really! That’s the end? Not again! This ending made the most sense of the films I’ve recently seen but I was still frustrated. 4.25” Chris says: “A well-made feature debut
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Jamila Wignot
Chris says: “Dancer/choreographer Alvin Ailey pretty much gets the standard docu-portrait treatment here, as archival performance footage and interviews are blended in with modern day reminisces (often most satisfying when it contrasts performers from a half-century ago with how they
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Fernando Frias
Starring: Adriana Arbelaes | Coral Puente | Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño | Leo Zapata | Sophia Metcalf | Xueming Angelina Chen
Diane says: “In a part of Mexico wracked with violent gangs, Ulises is the leader of a group of young dancers, Los Terkos. Day after day they get together to hone their moves to cumbia, slowed-down Colombian songs. Ulises is
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Chanya Button
Starring: Elizabeth Debicki | Gemma Arterton | Isabella Rossellini | Rupert Penry-Jones
Julie says: “VITA & VIRGINIA is about the intriguing relationship between Vita Sackville-West a very popular socialite author and Virginia Woolf (who we probably all know was much more the reserved reclusive type). It takes place in the 1920’s, a
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Julius Onah
Starring: Kevin Harrison Jr | Naomi Watts | Norbert Leo Butz | Octavia Spencer | Tim Roth
Julie says: “From Rotten Tomatoes(without spoiling anything… i.e.the below all happens right away in the movie) ‘It’s been ten years since Amy and Peter Edgar (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) adopted their son from war-torn Eritrea, and they thought the
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Alejandro Brugués
Starring: Alexis Díaz de Villegas | Andrea Duro | Andros Perugorría | Jazz Vilá | Jorge Molina
Bruce says: “I’m probably not the right person to review a zombie film and I certainly would not do so had I disliked JUAN OF THE DEAD. But like LET THE RIGHT ONE IN which I loved, a film that
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Giorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Aggeliki Papoulia | Ariane Labed | Aris Servetalis | Johnny Vekris
Thom says: “Lanthimos was the director of my TOP 2010 FILM DOGTOOTH so you can imagine how excited I was to see his latest contribution to world cinema. Thrillingly, I loved the film and even flirted with the idea of
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Michael Tully
Starring: Jim Willingham | Michael Tully | Onur Tukel | Rachel Korine | Robert Longstreet
Julie says: “Crazy good, darkish ? homegrown southern curio of a film. Interesting unfolding of events, several humorous moments, several bizarre moments, several poignant moments…in the end, sadly, I was left somewhat unsatisfied as if a piece or two to
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Vera Farmiga
Starring: Dagmara Dominczyk | Donna Murphy | John Hawkes | Joshua Leonard | Vera Farmiga
Michael says: “One of my favorite films at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival was HIGHER GROUND, starring and directed by the charming and talented Vera Farmiga (UP IN THE AIR; DOWN TO THE BONE). HIGHER GROUND tackles the complex
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