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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Marielle Heller
Starring: Amy Adams | Arleigh Snowden | Emmett Snowden | Jessica Harper | Scoot McNairy
Brett says: “Both director Marielle Heller (THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL) and actor Amy Adams deliver yet again in NIGHTBITCH, a drama-comedy that goes dark at times to tear into the daunting expectations of motherhood. The film is a
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Agniia Galdanova
Michael says: “Gwen is a non-binary, drag, performance artist who grew up with his grandparents in a village in Russia. As a young adult, they use their outrageous, confrontational performance art for various forms of protest against the system in
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jessica Hausner
Starring: Florence Baker | Ksenia Devriendt | Luke Barker | Mia Wasikowska | Samuel D. Anderson
Michael says: “This highly stylized, dark satire is an international affair produced by a plethora of countries, but shot in Austria and the UK. It follows a group of students who are influenced by a new teacher at a private
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Bakhtiyar Panjeei | Jafar Panahi | Mina Kavani | Narges Delaram | Vahid Mobasseri
Diane says: “NO BEARS is the latest from Jafar Panahi, the outlawed Iranian director. I’m still wondering about the tone of the film: I took much of it to be hilarious satire, but I’m not sure that it actually is.
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joanna Arnow
Starring: Babak Tafti | David Arnow | Joanna Arnow | Rushi Birudala | Scott Cohen
Brett says: “Joanna Arnow’s feature film debut comprises a series of threads, crossing and weaving, but never quite seamless from scene to scene. The film employs a fragmented editing approach, almost as if audiences are picking up pieces here and
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Eita Nagayama | Hinata Hiiragi | Mitsuki Takahata | Sakura Andô | Soya Kurokawa
Chris says: “This is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film set in his native Japan since SHOPLIFTERS and also his first that he hasn’t written himself since MABOROSI, his 1995 feature debut. Rest assured, MONSTER is completely in the director’s wheelhouse of
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Sebastián Silva
Starring: Catalina Saavedra | Jordan Firstman | Martine Gutierrez | Mateo Riestra | Sebastián Silva
Michael says: “While the synopsis of this film did a bit to prepare me for the audacious and flat-out bizarre journey I might be embarking on, certainly Silva’s earlier film, THE MAID, for which lead actress Catalina Saavedra was nominated
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Starring: arin Grigore | Judith State | Macrina Barladeanu | Orsolya Moldován | Rácz Endre
Diane says: “The latest from Cristian Mungiu, of 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS, R.M.N. Is like the titular MRI of the (diseased?) mind of Transylvania. In a small town, a flourishing industrial bakery has to import and house
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: André 3000 | Hong Chau | Lauren Lakis | Michelle Williams | Todd-o-Phonic Todd
Diane says: “Kelly Reichardt’s latest, starring Michelle Williams as a closed-up ceramic artist, satirizes the art school scene perfectly, from funky clothing and cheese-heavy gallery openings to parent-child competition and every kind of crafts class. (I saw it with my
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Rating: 3.3 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Amanda Kramer
Starring: Annie Kyle | Cricket Arrison | M. Diesel | Reshma Gajjar | Tess Hewlett
Chris says: “Cheerfully billed as ‘A Saturday Night Television Special’ starring Sissy St. Claire (Sophie von Haselberg), writer/director Amanda Kramer’s film may feel as if it’s beaming in from another planet to those unfamiliar with 1970s/80s variety shows. Devotees of
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