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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jay Burleson
Starring: Allison Shrum | Darius Willis | K.J. Baker | Kansas Bowling | Poppy Cunningham | Taylor Smith
“Slasher films are a dime a dozen, so when an authentic standout rears its intimidating, masked head lurking from the shadows, it would be … criminal not to give such a film(s) its proper due. “THE THIRD SATURDAY IN OCTOBER
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marat Sarulu
Starring: Akmaral Uzbekova | Aziz Yusupov | Jyldyz Bekova | Kurmanbek Mamyrov | Meerim Atantaeva
Brett says: “A cryptic excerpt from a poem by W.H. Auden about Atlantis opens this equally dream-like film. The underwater isle of fantasy in this particular excerpt of the poem is described with a similar flair as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Barrett Burgin
Starring: Curt Doussett | Emily Marie Palmer | Jyllian Petrie | Mason D. Davis | Michael Flynn | Morgan Gunter
Brett says: “CRYO is a science-fiction psychological thriller that borrows tidbits from previous sci-fi films, but some of these borrowings fly under the mainstream radar. In this case, the sci-fi considerations are effective as ideas and setting components that accompany
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Eric Pennycoff
Starring: Graham Skipper | Jeremy Gardner | Rigo Garay | Taylor Zaudtke
Brett says: “The horror Christmas movie tradition might bring to mind some cult classics like BLACK CHRISTMAS; SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT; and RARE EXPORTS. It might be a bit too early to tell, but if given a fair shake and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Eskil Vogt
Starring: Alva Brynsmo Ramstad | Ellen Dorrit Petersen | Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim | Morten Svartveit | Rakel Lenora Fløttum | Sam Ashraf
Brett says: “THE INNOCENTS is a film that see-saws back and forth with character-driven family drama and shocking kid-fueled horror/fantasy. The film’s primary focus is on a group of four Norwegian children who—through their own sets of circumstantial conflicts—have by-passed
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alika Tengan
Starring: Jordan Cheng | Joshua Co | Lisette Marie Flanary | Reanna Barboza | Tyler Ebisuya
Chris says: “It feels too easy to label this as ‘Hawaiian Mumblecore’, even if that’s exactly what it is. The backstory is more interesting: Director Alika Tengan developed this around the real life circumstances of its star, Naz Kawakami, a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Charlie McDowell
Starring: Jason Segel | Jesse Plemons | Lily Collins | Omar Leva
Diane says: “Jesse Plemons plays the opposite of his THE POWER OF THE DOG role—an obnoxious tech billionaire who lords it over his wife and staff. In this thriller, the couple is held hostage by a disgruntled average guy. Tone varies
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Fanny Liatard | Jérémy Trouilh
Starring: Alseni Bathily | Denis Lavant | Farida Rahouadj | Finnegan Oldfield | Jamil McCraven | Lyna Khoudri
Chris says: “Really cool production design does what it can to enhance a perfectly adequate narrative. Denis Lavant appears briefly (just call him ‘One Scene Denis’) because he can. 3 cats”
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Josephine Decker
Starring: Cherry Jones | Grace Kaufman | Jacques Colimon | Jason Segel | Pico Alexander
Michael says: “Apparently based on an uber-popular YA novel, the film is clumsy, beautiful, trite, and beautiful all at the same time. While it follows a formula that screams teen fiction there are some moments that work so perfectly, that
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Hyunri | Issey Takahashi | Masahiro Higashide | Minosuke | Ryôta Bandô | Takashi Sasano | Yû Aoi | Yuri Tsunematsu
Chris says: “Historical melodrama that takes a while to get where it’s going, although it eventually arrives (e.g. the stowaway sequence) and then unpredictably goes a little batshit after that. Docked at least half a star for how clumsily it
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