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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shannon Triplett
Starring: Beau Bridges | Edwin Garcia II | Frances Fisher | Kristine Froseth | Ryan Hurst
Aaron says: “This tightly constructed sci-fi thriller from first-time writer-director Shannon Triplett is the discovery of the fest. Kristine Froseth stars as the nameless (for a while) woman who crashes her car in the Mojave desert and can’t find her
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brady Corbet
Starring: Adrien Brody | Felicity Jones | Guy Pearce | Joe Alwyn | Raffey Cassidy
Brett says: “The phrase ‘where do we begin?’ is sometimes an overused line to set up what all is too often an underwhelming account for such a grandiose introduction, but in reflecting on the film THE BRUTALIST, ‘where do we
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Elliot
Starring: Dominique Pinon | Eric Bana | Jacki Weaver | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Sarah Snook
Diane says: “Ten years after MARY AND MAX, Australian stop-motion filmmaker Adam Elliot presents another tragicomedy in the form of biography. The film proper starts deep in the mouth of a dying old woman (who, when the camera is pulled
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Cory Michael Smith | Dylan O'Brien | Ella Hunt | Gabriel LaBelle | Rachel Sennott
Diane says: “What chutzpah Lorne Michaels had to think he could revolutionize television with ‘Saturday Night Live’! SATURDAY NIGHT is a paean to the cast and crew of SNL, based on memories of the first show in 1975. It’s a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: RaMell Ross
Starring: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor | Ethan Cole Sharp | Jase Stidwell | Najah Bradley | Sam Malone
Diane says: “Based on Colson Whitehead’s novel of the same name, NICKEL BOYS has an impressionistic and disorienting style. Early scenes are shot from the POV of main character Elwood–as though through his young eyes–and the landscape is often sideways
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kazik Radwanski
Starring: Alejandra Zapico | Deragh Campbell | Georgia Tannis | Matt Johnson | Simon Reynolds
Brett says: “The film MATT AND MARA is the latest from director Kazik Radwanski (ANNE AT 13,000 FT.) and, like his previous feature film, is a character study from start to finish. Co-title-character Matt is one who takes things as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Thibault Emin
Starring: Edith Proust | Lika Minamoto | Matthieu Sampeur
Brett says: “From director Thibault Emin, ELSE is a rather strange entry into the body horror genre, even for a genre that is usually rife with weirdness as is. The narrative begins a bit conventionally at first as a couple—Anx
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marielle Heller
Starring: Amy Adams | Arleigh Snowden | Emmett Snowden | Jessica Harper | Scoot McNairy
Brett says: “Both director Marielle Heller (THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL) and actor Amy Adams deliver yet again in NIGHTBITCH, a drama-comedy that goes dark at times to tear into the daunting expectations of motherhood. The film is a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Niclas Larsson
Starring: Ellen Burstyn | Ewan McGregor | Lara Flynn Boyle | Rhys Ifans | Taylor Russell
Diane says: “Mother (Ellen Burstyn) has plunked herself down on a couch in a furniture store and refuses to get up. Her youngest son David (Ewan McGregor) is torn between tending to his mother and trying to get to his daughter’s birthday
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kit Zauhar
Starring: Ian Edlund | Jessie Pinnick | Kit Zauhar | Zane Pais
Michael says: “A couple who probably shouldn’t be together, travel from NYC to Philly for Ben’s high school reunion. He and girlfriend Tessa, are sharing an Airbnb with host, Adam, who’s socially awkward that just adds to the discomfort of
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