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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zachary Wigon
Starring: Christopher Abbott | Margaret Qualley
Brett says: “SANCTUARY explores power, identity, and trauma through a peculiar sexual relationship with a unique cinematic reality-bender format. There are only two featured characters, a dominant female sex worker and submissive male executive who finds himself struggling to find
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Aimee Lou Wood | Alex Sharp | Bill Nighy | Lia Williams | Tom Burke | Zoe Boyle
Brett says: “Bill Nighy plays Mr. Williams in an English adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s IKIRU. Mr. Williams has been a proper gentleman bureaucrat during his many years employed at the County Hall office. The tradeoff is that it has been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Bedwani
Thom says: “This is certainly going to be one of the most fun reviews to write ever (or so I thought). When my brother Chuk and I moved from Fell Street to our wonderful new apartment on Laguna Street, the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hlynur Palmason
Starring: Birta Gunnarsdóttir | Friðrik Friðriksson | Hilmar Guðjónsson | Ingvar Sigurdsson | Ísar Svan Gautason
Brett says: “A very ambitious and breathtaking film, director Hlynur Pálmason’s third (and best) feature film to date goes for a full blown epic on the topic of colonialism, setting the film GODLAND in the 19th century during the dawn of photography.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kevin Kopacka
Starring: Anna Platen | Frederik von Lüttichau | Jeff Wilbusch | Luisa Taraz | Robert Nickisch
Brett says: “Aesthetically soothing, frightening, trippy, and feverish all in perfect rhythm with whichever atmosphere the scene calls for at the time, one way to introduce the film DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES is to go ahead and establish that’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Garland
Starring: Gayle Rankin | Jessie Buckley | Paapa Essiedu | Rory Kinnear | Sarah Twomey | Zak Rothera-Oxley
Brett satys: “With a film likely to be as divisive as MEN, it is perhaps best to keep a review as short as possible so as to not dig oneself a hole that he/she is unable to crawl out of.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucia Small
Chris says: “By far not the first film about high school debate programs, Lucia Small’s documentary is surely the only one to focus primarily on female debaters. Shot over five years and using Newton South High School as its primary
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Audrey Diwan
Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei | Kacey Mottet Klein | Louise Chevillotte | Louise Orry-Diquéro | Luàna Bajrami
Diane says: “Based on an autobiographical novel by this year’s Nobel prize winner, Annie Ernaux. And you thought 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS was as harrowing an abortion movie as you’d ever see. Director Audrey Diwan hews close to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sebastian Meise
Starring: Alfred Hartung | Anton Von Lucke | Franz Rogowski | Georg Friedrich | Thomas Penn | Thomas Stecher
Michael says: “This German film led with a strong performance, looks back at the post WWII period in Germany, where the Paragraph 175 law, outlawing homosexuality, was still enforced. Hans Hoffman is repeatedly thrown in prison for cruising toilets, or
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Maria Speth
Diane says: “German doc in the Wiseman style: no explanatory info or voiceovers, and over three-and-a-half hours long. Closely follows 20 or so kids (middle schoolish) and their teacher, who will be retiring at the end of the school year,
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