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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ryan White
Diane says: “Such a great subject—the 90-year-old sex therapist—so the doc is bound to be enjoyable. With Westheimer’s frank manner and tiny frame suffusing the film, the only directorial missteps are some unattractive animation for childhood scenes, paired with narration
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Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: Ariane Labed | Honor Swinton | Jack McMullen | Jaygann Ayeh | Richard Ayoade | Tilda Swinton | Tom Burke
Chris says: “Not everything in Joanna Hogg’s latest fully registered for me, but when it was over my first thought was, “I really want to see this again” and it’s been some time since I last felt that way about
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ian Bonhôte | Peter Ettedgui
Starring: documentary
Beth CA says: “This film is interesting, and it’s worth watching because of the subject – and the video and photographic footage was excellent. However, when a film aims to document an artist’s life and work, the film ought to
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Alberto Marini
Starring: Andrés Velencoso | Diego Boneta | Jocelin Donahue | Maiara Walsh
Jason says: “From the title alone, it’s pretty clear that SUMMER CAMP is not exactly likely to break new ground as a horror movie, but there’s plenty of hope that it may do a familiar thing well, and the 81-minute
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Peter Flynn
Jason says: “A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the projectionist at my neighborhood theater by name when talking to a co-worker, and he took the fact that I knew him by name as a sign that maybe I spent
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Yokna Hasegawa
Starring: Aki Morita | Chieko Misaka | Norma Aratani | Ryubun Saitou | Tomomi Mabuchi
Jason says: “I initially started this review by writing about how wonderfully weird Japanese science fiction is, no matter what the medium, but the truth is, DUAL CITY isn’t that strange, at least not by those standards. It’s mainly just
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Denny Tedesco
Jason says: “THE WRECKING CREW has had a long time on the path to release – it played the festival circuit back in 2008, but it started shooting in 1996, meaning that it took director Denny Tedesco nearly two decades
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Starring: André Hennicke | Burak Yigit | Franz Rogowski | Frederick Lau | Laia Costa | Max Mauff
Jason says: “In certain hands, VICTORIA might just have been an impressive achievement in logistics for hitting an ambitious set of marks as a single-shot, real-time thriller. It winds up being a fair bit better than that, even if there
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Matt Chow | Wilson Yip
Starring: Amber Kuo | Charmaine Sheh | Francis Ng | Julian Cheung | Louis Koo | Oceane Zhu | Sammy Chung
Jason says: “There’s a shiny new Shaw Brothers logo among the vanity cards before TRIUMPH IN THE SKIES, likely because it’s a spinoff of a TV show that ran on Hong Kong’s TVB network, which was also founded by the
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Dante Lam
Starring: Choi Si-won Choi | Eddie Peng Yu-yen | Shawn Dou | Wang Loudan
Jason says: “The characters in Dante Lam’s latest, TO THE FORE, often seem like they wouldn’t know what to do if they couldn’t be professional cyclists, and in a way, the film he made reflects that: When the characters are
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