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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jeff Stanzler
Starring: Aasif Mandvi | Abdel Kechiche | Elodie Bouchez | Robin Wright Penn | Sandra Oh
Bruce says: “The strangeness of this film’s title matches the tenor of the film. SORRY, HATERS is one of the most disturbing, unsettling films I’ve seen. With two sensational performances by Robin Wright Penn and Abdel Kechiche the film is
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr | Helen Mirren | Joseph Gordon Leavitt | Stephen Dorff
Bruce says: “Mixed genre films are tricky business; they are difficult to carry off and equally difficult to digest upon a single viewing. SHADOWBOXER is a black comedy, thriller, romance and crime drama all rolled into one unique package. To
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Starring: Audrey Tautou | Cécile de France | Kelly Reilly | Kevin Bishop | Romain Duris
Bruce says: “RUSSIAN DOLLS is written by a director who loves his characters yet is not afraid to have them make plenty of mistakes as they discover how to love and be loved. Employing plenty of digital tricks in the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Adam Curtis
Bruce says: “Of all the political documentaries to come out in the past few years THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES is the most innovative in its thinking. According to Curtis the neo-con movement and the fundamentalist Muslim movement both had their
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Andrew Bujalski | Justin Rice | Rachel Clift
Michael says: “Chlotrudis loves it when a talented, local filmmaker achieves some level of success, and while Andrew Bujalski isn’t a Matt Damon or even an Eliza Dushku, he’s well-known in indie-circles for his debut film, FUNNY HA HA. Now
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Starring: Moshe Agazai | Rami Danon | Roni Hadar | Sirak M. Sabahat | Yaël Abecassis
Michael says: “LIVE AND BECOME is the first epic film to be made about the migration of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. As that, it has a little bit of the epic formula that Atom Egoyan so successfully avoided in
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Luc Dardenne
Starring: Déborah François | Jérémie Segard
Chris says: “Despite the leisurely pace and authentic stabs at social realism, don’t say nothing ever happens in a film by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Like their previous feature THE SON, this one gradually bottles up a lot of tension
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Heidi Ewing | Rachel Grady
Carolyn says: “A very well done documentary about children brought up in the born-again tradition. The framing of the film was a big discussion topic afterwards. I especially liked the question at the end of the introductory scene. OK I
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Starring: Ali Nassirian | Hossein Farzi-Zadeh | Neda Pakdaman
Michael says: “IRON ISLAND is a little-seen Iranian film by Mohammad Rasoulof that enjoyed a very brief run at the Museum of Fine Arts. It’s now available on DVD, and I highly recommend that you take a look. Blending captivating
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Catherine Keener | Frances McDormand | Jennifer Anniston | Joan Cusack
Michael says: “I really enjoy Nicole Holofcener’s films. Beginning with the brilliant WALKING & TALKING, and LOVELY & AMAZING I find it so delightfully refreshing to see smart films written and directed by a woman, focusing on women, and with
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