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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kim Jee-Woon | Yim Pil-Sung
Starring: Bae Doo-na | Jin Ji-hee | Kim Gyu-ri | Kim Kang-woo | Koh Joon-hee | Ryoo Seung-bum | Song Young-chang
Jason says: “Anthology film DOOMSDAY BOOK does not quite end the world in three ways, as one might expect it to do. Even more interesting is that the contemplative middle segment comes from noted action director Kim Jee-woon, whose unusual
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Director: Steve Kerr
Starring: Catherine Yale | David Boutin | Gilbert Comptois | Janet Lane | Maxime Dumontier | Mylene St-Sauveur | Pierre Collin
Jason says: “COLUMBARIUM is not quite one jettisoned gimmick away from being a perfect little thriller, but it’s tight and suspenseful enough to impress as it is, telling a good little story without much in the way of fat at
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Director: Tom Kingsley | Will Sharpe
Starring: Amanda Hadingue | Anna O'Grady | Chris Langham | Colin Hurley | Simon Angstell | Will Sharpe
Thom says: “This was a wonderful gift from a friend that was chock-full of pluses from some very imaginative filmmakers. The lead actor playing the father of the family Tom Thompson is two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langham. Trust me, this
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson | Alice Vikander | Domhnall Gleeson | Jude Law | Keira Knightly | Kelly Macdonald | Matthew Macfadyen | Olivia Williams
Matt says: “ATONEMENT director Joe Wright’s bold costume drama ANNA KARENINA served as my introduction to Leo Tolstoy’s beloved story of passion and infidelity among aristocrats in 19th century Russia. Despite my lack of familiarity with the novel, Wright’s audacious
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Andy Mitton | Jesse Holland
Starring: Anessa Ramsey | Cassidy Freeman | Clark Freeman | Laura Heisler | Lee Wilkof
Jason says: “YELLOWBRICKROAD is a movie constructed out of every tangentially-related spooky idea that its makers could graft onto the setting, and that grab-bag approach can be a dangerous way to put a movie together, even one where the usual
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Starring: Filipe Vargas | Leonor Silveira | Pilar López de Ayala | Ricardo Trêpa
Jason says: “It is customary, when discussing master filmmakers still producing movies well past when people in most industries have retired, to comment on how they are still vital and what an inspiration it is that they still love their
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Director: Patricio Guzmán
Jason says: “I don’t think it was Patricio Guzmán’s plan to do a bait-and-switch with his documentary NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT, but if it was, he executes an unusually smooth and effective one here: It’s one thing to start with
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Yoshimasa Ishibashi
Starring: Anna Ishibashi | Eiji Okuda | Maiko | Mieko Harada | Seijun Suzuki | Takayuki Yamada
Jason says: “MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY is the sort of colorful, genre-mashing flick that doesn’t just try to bowl the audience over, but practically insists on it, overwhelming the viewer with color and sound and sudden shifts until they either
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Julian Gilbey
Starring: Alec Newman | Eamonn Walker | Ed Speleers | Garry Sweeney | Holly Boyd | Kate Magowan | Melissa George | Sean Harris
Jason says: “There is a certain joy to a move that takes the word ‘cliffhanger’ literally, as A LONELY PLACE TO DIE does in its very first scene. Director Julian Gilbey will go back to this well another time or
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joann Sfar
Starring: Anna Mouglalis | Doug Jones | Eric Elmosnino | Laetitia Casta | Lucy Gordon | Mylène Jampanoï
Bruce says: “Make no mistakes, GAINSGOURG: JTAIME .MOI NON PLUS is no straightforward biopic. Rather than attack his subject conventionally, Joann Sfar is capricious and daring in his portraiture of Serge Gainsbourg. Sfar pages back and forth to Gainsbourgs childhood to
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