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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kate Barker-Froyland
Starring: Anne Hathaway | Ben Rosenfield | Johnny Flynn | Mary Steenburgen | Sharon van Etten
Jason says: “There are times when SONG ONE starts to come across as a simple enough romance that its peculiar start fades into the background, and it’s odd for that to feel like a good thing. The way the two
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Leslye Headland
Starring: Adam Scott | Alison Brie | Andrea Savage | Billy Eichner | Jason Mantzoukas | Jason Sudeikis | Jordan Carlos
Jason says: “The romantic comedy genre has felt a little tapped out lately; the big American studios barely produce them anymore and the independent productions like SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE are oddly self-aware. The trick that a filmmaker is trying
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kenneth Kainz
Starring: Allan Hyde | Jakob Oftebro | Laura Bro | Maria Bonnevie | Rebecca Emily Sattrup | Søren Malling
Jason says: “The concept behind Lene Kaaberbøl’s Shamer Chronicles book series is an interesting one, positing a woman and her daughter with the ability to look into a person’s soul and pull out what they are ashamed of. What kinds
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Bard Barber | Scott Christopherson
Jason says: “‘Dub’ Lawrence is a disconcertingly cheerful face with which to sell the idea that the militarization of American police forces is out of hand; it’s a serious, life-and-death subject to which he has a highly personal connection, and
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Joseph Sims Dennett
Jason says: “Writer/director Joseph Sims-Dennett initially seems to start out with a private eye story with the background redacted before quickly evolving into something more sinister. It’s an intense stakeout thriller, if one that leans more toward how this sort
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Robert Kenner
Jason says: “The most impressive thing about MERCHANTS OF DOUBT may be the apparent lack of resignation on the part of its makers. It is, after all, a documentary that is well-researched, clear in its message, and attractively presented, but
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Park Heung-sik
Jason says: “A sequel to CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON was supposed to open on Imax screens this weekend, but that seems to have fallen into some bizarre limbo. Still, as South Korea’s MEMORIES OF THE SWORD begins, one might naturally
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Jason says: “Hollywood stories can be self-indulgent or snide, depending on what sort of axes the people making them have to grind, rarely managing to hit the sweet spot in the middle. What they seldom are, though, is extraneous, but
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Dave Boyle
Jason says: “There’s a moment at the end of a lot of the really good ‘Coen-like’ movies (a description unfair to everyone involved, but one people use) where someone sits down, has a long sigh, and considers just what all
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Alec Su
Jason says: “Even after reading a description of this movie that I thought might give too much away and seeing the dedication at the start, I spent a good chunk of THE LEFT EAR thinking it was going to be
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