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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Carmen Emmi
Starring: Christian Cooke | Maria Dizzia | Russell Tovey | Sam Asa Brownstein | Tom Blyth
Michael says: “In a rare moment of synergy, my choice for the best film at the festival was also awarded the Narrative Audience Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival this year. This debut feature tells the story of Lucas,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Shoshannah Stern
Vicki says: “MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE? is a an uplifting documentary that highlights Marlee Matlin’s journey as a deaf actress and advocate. The film explores her early struggles breaking into Hollywood, overcoming societal barriers, and using her voice to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Junta Yamaguchi
Starring: Gôta Ishida | Manami Honjô | Riko Fujitani | Shiori Kubo | Yoshimasa Kondô
Michael says: “This delightful science fiction comedy starts off modestly enough, introducing us to the staff and guests at the one-hundred-year-old Fujiya inn nestled in a quiet region of Kyoto. The snow covered beauty matches the care in which the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Starring: Ana Nikolava | Ia Sukhitashvili | Kakha Kintsurashvili | Merab Ninidze | Roza Kancheishvili
Michael says: “I thought I had already reviewed this one, but apparently that was not the case. I will say, this film both defies easy description, and my ability to rate it as I left the theater at the IFFBoston.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ryan J. Sloan
Starring: Ariella Mastroianni | Jack Alberts | Marianne Goodell | Renee Gagner | Tommy Kang
Jeff says: “A widow by suicide, Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni) suffers from dyschronometria, a neurodegenerative and eventually fatal disease which alters her perception of time. She can’t hold down a job because of it, her daughter’s caretaker is her former husband’s
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alex Barland | Ray Mendoza
Starring: Aaron Mackenzie | Alex Brockdorff | Cosmo Jarvis | D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai | Joseph Quinn
Diane says: “WARFARE is a recreated 2006 incident from the Iraq War, involving a group of mostly Navy SEALS. Co-director Ray Mendoza (along with Alex Garland) was part of the platoon. They used the testimony of platoon members to write the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tommaso Santambrogio
Starring: Alain Alain Alfonso González | Alexander Diego | Edith Ibarra | Frank Ernesto Lam
Jeff says: “An early season favorite for me. Filmed in Cuba by an Italian director and crew, OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENTS takes its cue, fittingly, from Italian neorealism, telling three proletarian stories set in a small town in the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Michael says: “What a delight it was going into the film FLOW with no knowledge of the plot, other than it was a dialog-free, animated film about a cat. As the film began, it quickly became apparent this this tale
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mati Diop
Laks says: “The former British Prime Minister had caused international scandal when he blew off the Greeks on discussing the restitution of the Parthenon sculptures and the establishment echoed the same tired colonial nonsense as it does to all nations,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Matthew Rankin
Starring: Amir Amiri | Bernard Arene | Faraz Anoushah Pour | Mani Soleymanlou | Matthew Rankin | Pirouz Nemati | Rojina Esmaeili
Chris says: “A considerable advance over Matthew Rankin’s previous weirdo-Canadian feature THE TWENTIETH CENTURY while also barely resembling it. Maybe the funniest, most original film I’ve seen in ages? Also, while not quite HUNDREDS OF TURKEYS, I was not expecting
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