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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alma Har'el
Starring: Byron Bowers | Laura San Giacomo | Lucas Hedges | Noah Jupe | Shia LaBeouf
Chris says: “Your mileage will vary depending on what you think of therapy sessions turned into autobiographical feature films. Actor/writer Shia LeBeouf does a damning but compelling impersonation of his own father, while Noah Jupe, who plays a version of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Starring: Aldis Hodge | Alfre Woodard | LaMonica Garrett | Wendell Pierce
Michael says: “CLEMENCY is a powerful film with some great acting, but even the best of acting couldn’t quite give this film the spark it needed and honestly, deserved, to make it stand out. Alfre Woodard, always amazing, and top
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Chester
Beth says: “This film was about a great story about an important mission. It was just not an award-worthy film. The music really ruined it. In fact, the music was so bad, it pervaded the whole film, and you can’t
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bart Freundlich
Starring: Abby Quinn | Azhy Robertson | Billy Crudup | Julianne Moore | Michelle Williams | Will Chase
Michael says: “I really want to love Bart Freundlich’s films. Not because he’s Julianne Moore’s husband, although I appreciate that he often casts her in his films, but because I loved his debut, THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS so much and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Jeremy Northam | Katherine Kelly | Keira Knightley | Matt Smith | Matthew Goode | Ralph Fiennes
Chris says: “A fascinating story (based on actual events) told adequately; it wants to be ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, but Keira Knightley lacks the presence of a Hoffman and the ease of a Redford. It’s even more noticeable in her
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Rating: 2 cats | 3 cats
Director: Scott A. Burns
Starring: Adam Driver | Annette Bening | Corey Stoll | Evander Duck Jr. | Jon Hamm | Michael C. Hall
Diane says: “Scott Burns’ THE REPORT, starring Adam Driver, is decidedly uncinematic, at least for the first 2/3 of the film. It’s the story of Dan Jones, a Senate Intelligence staffer who labors for years (mostly in a small secure room)
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho | Juan Minujín | Lola Dueñas | Mariana Nunes | Matheus Nachtergaele | Nahuel Cano
Chris says: “Apart from her debut feature LA CIENAGA, all of Lucrecia Martel’s films have left me cold and damn if I can pinpoint why. As a big fan of stuff like Tarkovsky’s STALKER, it’s not like I abhor slow
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Augustine Frizzell
Starring: Atheena Frizzell | Camila Morrone | Joel Allen | Kendal Smith | Kyle Mooney | Maia Mitchell | Matthew Holcomb
Chris says: “Less the Gen-Z GHOST WORLD it wants to be than a distaff, sillier, low-budget SUPERBAD. Upped half a notch for inspired use of a certain Michael Bolton song. Camila Morrone, however, is nearly as good as a young
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Chris Metzler | Jeff Springer | Quinn Costello
Chris says: “Further proof that one can make a movie about *anything*–in this case, twenty-plus pound swamp rats (technical name: nutria) infesting coastal Louisiana and beyond. Fun, educational (Wendell Pierce should narrate everything) and not for the squeamish. 3 cats“
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Clinch | T.G. Herrington
Chris says: “Ephemeral but heartfelt and engaging, particularly whenever it shows the dialogue occurring organically between the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Cuban musicians (it spends a little too much time telling us about it.)”
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