4.2 cats Archives - Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film

Train Dreams (2025)

Diane says: “As a fan of the novel, I was disappointed in TRAIN DREAMS. Where is the laugh-out loud humor (read the vignette about the man who was shot by his dog), the guilt that plagues Robert for things he’s

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Caught by the Tides (2025)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Maotao Hu | Tao Zhao | You Zhou | Zhou Lan | Zhubin Li

Michael says: “Zhangke Jia’s twelfth, full-length feature narrative, CAUGHT IN THE TIDES, is a challenging yet fascinating construction of his own past and present work to tell the tale of a woman searching for her beloved over decades. The film

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Good One (2024)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: India Donaldson
Starring: Danny McCarthy | James Le Gros | Lily Collias | Peter McNally | Sumaya Bouhbal

Michael says: “We first meet Sam, hanging with her best friend, Jessie the night before she will head off on a weekend camping trip with her dad, her dad’s longtime buddy and his teenaged son. When her counterpart teen traveler

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American Fiction (2023)

Michael says: “Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison, a distinguished academic and writer of literary fiction who decries the popular trend of best-selling books about the black experience – usually involving single moms, gangs, and police shootings – in Cord

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Linoleum (2023)

Diane says: “LINOLEUM is a film with some tricks, like certain other films greatly loved by Chlotrudis. I won’t tell you which ones so as not to give any hints or spoilers. Cameron, aspirational astronaut and actual astronomer, faces a

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Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Questlove

Michael says: “Questlove’s documentary about a summer long music festival in Harlem, during 1969 — happening concurrently with Woodstock, but that very few people are aware of today, benefitted by my recent viewing of the film PASSING. and my reading

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Ham on Rye (2020)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Tyler Taormina
Starring: Adam Torres | Audrey Boos | Gabriella Herrera | Haley Bodell

Diane says: “If you’ve ever gone from childhood to adulthood, I think you will like this film. It’s Tyler Taormina’s first, and looks at rituals of growing up in a really weird, delightful way. It’s beautifully shot—I particularly liked how

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The Vast of Night (2020)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Andrew Patterson
Starring: Bruce Davis | Gail Cronauer | Jake Horowitz | Sierra McCormick

Brett says: “THE VAST OF NIGHT, under the direction of debut feature film wizard Andrew Patterson, is a film that takes genre film-making to a whole new level. Premiering at Sundance back in 2019, the film is now set for release

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The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Joe Talbot
Starring: Jimmie Fails | Jonathan Majors | Rob Morgan | Tichina Arnold

Chris says: “Based on the life of its lead actor (Jimmie Fails), Joe Talbot’s film is both a loving ode to and a fervent indictment of his and Fails’ hometown. With themes of gentrification, community, ownership, race and familial legends,

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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Chris says: “It’s not so much that Melissa McCarthy is a revelation here as that she finally has a role that allows her to be more than just silly or weird (although she’s occasionally those things too.) The real-life story

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