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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ilker Çatak
Starring: Anne-Kathrin Gummich | Eva Löbau | Leonard Stettnisch | Leonie Benesch | Michael Klammer
Chris says: “A junior high school is as ideal a setting as any for a taut thriller and this German film gets all the little details right as to why—in particular, a mounting, no-going-back pressure of the sort easily egged
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Chris says: “The influence of THE WIZARD OF OZ on David Lynch is frankly obvious for anyone who has seen WILD AT HEART but I can’t recall the last time I had such a blast watching any documentary. John Waters
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mark Slutsky | Sarah Watts
Starring: Antoine Yared | Anwen O'Driscoll | Hasani Freeman | June Laporte | Liane Balaban
Michael says: “Thoughtful script, and some strong performances, coupled with a haunting, effective score, lift YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER above that could be TV movie fare. After the death of her father, a high school girl goes to Quebec to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Morrisa Maltz
Starring: Devin Shangreaux | Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux | Lily Gladstone | Raymond Lee | Richard Ray Whitman
Chris says: “Lily Gladstone recently won a Gotham Award for her lovely, subtle performance as a woman on a road trip from Minnesota to Texas following her grandmother’s death. However, this feature debut from writer/director Marissa Maltz is also award-worthy
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Horgan
Starring: Caitlin Zoz | Chinaza Uche | Eli Powers | Joshua Koopman | Vera Teixeira
Jeff says: “Not so much a thriller, HOW TO ROB is more of a low budget, tough-guy movie, but it packs some thrills. The plot involves two boyhood friends grown up and working for a local gangster as stick-up guys who
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Seong-eun
Starring: Gong Seung-Yeon | Jeong Da-eun | Jeong-hak Park | Seo Hyun-woo
Michael says: “I thought 2022 – 2021 was the year of films about grief, but as evidenced by this post alone, that topic remains a strong one for filmmakers. (Although admittedly, this South Korean film was made in 2021). That’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tina Satter
Starring: Benny Elledge | John Way | Josh Hamilton | Marchánt Davis | Sydney Sweeney
Chris says: “If one can successfully adapt a screenplay from a Twitter thread a la ZOLA, then one can also do so from an FBI recording. This rolls out straightforwardly until it doesn’t; Sydney Sweeney also nails the (at first,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Arian Moayed | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Michaela Watkins | Owen Teague | Tobias Menzies
Chris says: “It takes some skill to get something this masterfully funny and humane from such a potentially inconsequential premise. Has a superb cast (Tobias Menzies, Owen Teague, Michaela Watkins), but can Julia Louis-Dreyfus please just star in all of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francisca Alegria
Starring: Benjamin Soto | Enzo Ferrada Rosati | Frederique Gudelj | Leonor Varela | Mia Maestro
Michael says: “This debut feature from Chile is a magical realist fable that tackles a lot of issues with a cryptic story that’s pretty indecipherable, but it’s beautiful to look at and sounds great, and the themes around rebirth, environment
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Allison Otto
Julie says: “I was engaged from beginning to end. Truth can definitely be stranger than fiction. Some things you may see coming, others (at least one) not so much! Worth a watch! “Glenn Howerton was in this who I did not
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