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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Barry Koeghan | Brendan Gleeson | Colin Farrell | Gary Lydon | Kerry Condon
Brett says: “Martin McDonagh paradoxically blasts the audience with deadpan in another highly ironic and character-driven film that adds to an already near-pristine catalog of acclaimed hits from the director. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN fits snugly into what might be
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Laura Wandel
Starring: Günter Duret | James Seguy | Lena Girard Voss | Maya Vanderbeque | Simon Caudry | Thao Maerten
Michael says: “This hard-hitting examination of how children learn the harsh realities of adulthood is a tough watch, but the astounding performance that director Wandel reveals by child-actor Maya Vanderbeque is riveting. Nora and her older brother Abel, go to
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Rebecca Hall
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Andre Holland | Antoinette Crowe-Legacy | Bill Camp | Gbenga Akinnagbe | Ruth Negga | Tessa Thompson
Michael says: “This assured directorial debut from actor Rebecca Hall reveals a practice that many people will be unaware. Set in 1920’s Harlem, a chance reunion of two high school friends poses moral and ethical challenges to a black woman
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Hans Olav Brenner | Herbert Nordrum | Maria Grazia Di Meo | Renate Reinsve
Diane says: “In Joachim Trier’s latest film, the lead from his OSLO AUGUST 31ST (2011), Anders Danielsen Lie, almost steals the show from the main character. But I’m not complaining. Lie plays comic book author Aksel, the first serious relationship
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Starring: Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson | Ester Bibi | Hilmir Snær Guðnason | Ingvar Sigurdsson | Noomi Rapace
Brett says: “All’s fair in love and wool. The film LAMB works as a film that’s more about the journey rather than the meaning. Even the most subtle explanation here would involve potential spoilers for the film, so it is
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Pacho Velez
Chris says: “Internet dating in New York City during the COVID age is a compelling enough subject for a documentary, but it’s the way director Pacho Velez approaches it that renders it an essential one. For the most part, he
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