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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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: 4.2 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Cord Jefferson
Starring: Erika Alexander | Jeffrey Wright | John Ortiz | Leslie Uggams | Tracee Ellis Ross
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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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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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Margaret Brown
Michael says: “This is one of those documentaries that I can only imagine started out with a particular premise, and as filming commenced, more and more was unearthed around this story that it turned into something so much more. Ostensibly
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Go Kyung-Pyo | Lee Jung-hyun | Park Hae-il | Shin-Young Kim | Tang Wei
Chris says: “Both the camerawork and editing go a long way towards transforming what is at its core a standard romantic thriller Hitchcock could’ve eked out sixty years ago (or Wong Kar-wai in the 1990s.) As others have said, it
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: August Joshi | Carly-Sophia Davies | Joseph Mydell | Louis | Tilda Swinton | Zinnia Davies-Cooke
Michael says: “Completing (perhaps?) the unplanned trilogy begun with THE SOUVENIR and THE SOUVENIR PART II, Joann Hogg’s take on the gothic ghost story, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER becomes my favorite of her films since ARCHIPELAGO. In a genius casting move,
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