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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky
Starring: Chris Galust | Darya Ekamasova | Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer | Maxim Stoyanov
Chris says: “Unfolding over a single day in Milwaukee, Kirill Mikhanovsky’s film follows Vic (Chris Galust), a young medical transport driver and son of Russian immigrants. In addition to getting his own clients from point A to B, he also
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Craig Robinson | Eddie Murphy | Keegan-Michael Key | Mike Epps
Diane says: “I’m giving a shout-out for DOLEMITE IS MY NAME starring Eddie Murphy. Based on a real story, a continually discouraged guy makes it as an entertainer on a wild path in self-promotion and blaxploitation films. For a while
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Heather Lenz
Thom says: “This is they type of documentary that rings all my bells. It’s the life story of now hugely successful Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose work now pops the million dollar ceiling, but for years she suffered through bouts
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Greg Berlanti
Starring: Alexandra Shipp | Jennifer Garner | Josh Duhamel | Katherine Langford | Keiynan Lonsdale | Logan Miller | Nick Robinson
Thom says: “This got a big publicity push earlier this year and was a minor success. A coming-of-age story about a gay teen boy just coming out is as sweet as all-get-out. Simon is an adorable boy with terrific parents,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Kristen Stewart | Lars Eidinger | Nora von Waldstätten | Sigrid Bouaziz | Ty Olwin
Thom says: “French director Olivier Assayas has been something of an in-and-outer director for me but his best films are indeed world class brilliant. I loved CLEAN (2004), SUMMER HOURS (2008), CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2014), & especially DEMONLOVER, my
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Isold Uggadottir
Starring: Babetida Sadjo | Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir | Patrik Nökkvi Pétursson
Michael says: “In a moment of rare alignment, my favorite film at the Provincetown Film Festival also won the Audience Choice Award. I truly hope this film gets a domestic release, because it is really well done. This Icelandic film
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Ann LeuVoy | Dylan Gelula | Elizabeth Trieu | Haley Lu Richardson | Krista Hayes | Regina Hall | Zoe Graham
Chris says “Building on the underrated RESULTS, Andrew Bujalski’s sixth feature might be his most satisfying one to date. Using a Hooter’s-like restaurant called Double Whammie’s as its unlikely setting, he portrays what amounts to a makeshift workplace family that
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sandi Tan
Chris says: “As a 19-year-old student in her native Singapore, Sandi Tan wrote and starred in an independent feature film she made with her friends and her much older male mentor, but it was never finished, as said mentor absconded
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chloé Zhao
Starring: Brady Jandreau | Cat Cliffortd | Leroy Pourier | Lily Jandreau | Mooney | Tim Jandreau
Chris says: “At a time when filmmaking is more accessible than ever, it’s heartening to still see real talent emerge. Chloe Zhao has such a firm handle on what she’s trying to depict and express in this film about Native
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Bill Hoag | Cedric the Entertainer | Ethan Hawke | Michael Gaston | Philip Ettinger | Victoria Hill
Chris says: “I believe any work of art has the potential to be both ridiculous and sublime, however rarely one achieves such a tricky balance is. To its credit, FIRST REFORMED is often firmly the latter—the austere opening credits sequence with
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