Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Starring: Alex Wolff | Cassandra Violet | Elijah Ungvary | Julia Bray | Nicolas Cage
Brett says: “They had a Cook with them who stood alone For boiling chicken with a marrow-bone, Sharp flavoring-powder and a spice of savor. He could distinguish London ale by flavor, And he could roast and seethe and broil and
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Bob Peterson | Pete Docter
Starring: Bob Peterson | Christopher Plummer | Delroy Lindo | Edward Asner | Jordan Nagai
Diane says: “Latest Pixar is bedeviled by a MacGuffin chase that makes it generic. It’s the first half hour of the film, the beautifully moving story of a couple passing from youth to old age and relinquished dreams, that makes this
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Robert Machoian
Starring: Avery Pizzuto | Barbara Whinnery | Chris Coy | Clayne Crawford | Noah Krershisnik | Sepideh Moafi
Bob says: “David and Niki are a married couple in a small rural town in Utah. They got married right after high school, and have a teenaged daughter and three younger sons. Things are not great in the marriage. They’re
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: James Rutenbeck
Chris says: “This doesn’t come up with any particularly profound revelations on racial disparity in Boston, unless one is completely ignorant of how such things play out in most contemporary American cities. Filmmaker James Rutenback excels less when focused on
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Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Jason says: “There are a lot of fiction films that don’t set their main plot up as artfully as MINE does. After all, the title speaks pretty directly to what the movie is about, and yet director Geralyn Pezanoski is
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Edgar Wright
Chris says: “INTRODUCING SPARKS, their seventh album from 1977, would’ve been a better title for this doc from Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD). For those unfamiliar, Sparks, consisting of California born-and-bred brothers Ron and Russell Mael, is one of
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Philippe Lacôte
Starring: Bakary Koné | Denis Lavant | Issaka Sawadogo | Jean Cyrille Digbeu | Rasmané Ouédraogo | Steve Tientcheu
Jeff says: “You might expect a movie about life in an African prison to be relentlessly grim. NIGHT OF THE KINGS, though, tells a lyrical story about storytelling itself. “La Maca prison, set in the midst of the Ivory Coast
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Noah Hutton
Starring: Arliss Howard | Babe Howard | Dean Imperial | Dora Madison | Frank Wood | Ivory Aquino | James McDaniel | Madeline Wise
Michael says: “I’ve got a nice start on my 2021 films now that I’ve wrapped up my nomination viewing. I recently watched the amusing and nicely done LAPSIS through the Brattle Theatre’s virtual cinema. For his feature debut, writer/director Noah
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Radha Blank
Starring: Antonio Ortiz | Haskiri Velazquez | Imani Lewis | Oswin Benjamin | Peter Kim | Radha Blank | T.J. Atoms
Bob says: “Radha Blank wrote, directed, and starred in this film about a character named Radha Blank. Is it autobiographical? I imagine it must be, at least in part. “The Radha in the film was the recipient of an award:
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Thor Freudenthal
Starring: Andy Garcia | Beth Grant | Charlie Plummer | Molly Parker | Taylor Russell | Walton Goggins
Michael says: “Structurally, there’s nothing really all that noteworthy about WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS, a high school rom-com that hits all the right beats and plays out in a fairly expected manner. What makes WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS notable, and
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