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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yngvild Sve Flikke
Starring: Arthur Berning | Kristine Kujath Thorp | Nader Khademi | Silya Nymoen | Tora Christine Dietrichson
Diane says: “A sweet and angsty Norwegian film about an unsettled woman who finds out she’s pregnant and has to make decisions fast. “What I liked: The tone—funny, yet also captured the fear and confusion of the predicament Major and minor
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nadav Lapid
Starring: Avshalom Pollak | Mili Eshet | Naama Preis | Neeta Roth | Nur Fibak | Yehonatan Vilozny
Chris says: “Lapid’s mastery of style here at least has the substance to justify and fortify it. Preachy though it may be, his alter-ego’s climactic spilling-of-guts is necessary and effective, even if the mother stuff ends up providing more catharsis.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Emmanuel Marre | Julie Lecoustre
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Alexandre Perrier | Arthur Egloff | Mara Taquin | Tamara Al Saadi
Chris says: “‘Once I wanted to be a nun til I found out what it takes from you; Now I’ve settled on Flight Attendant, and I know my heart is true.’ –Meryn Cadell. (P.S. Adele Exarchopoulos, whom you may remember
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Justin Kurzel
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Caleb Landry Jones | Essie Davis | Judy Davis | Phoebe Taylor | Sean Keenan
Diane says: “NITRAM is a tough film. I’m grateful that I was told hardly anything about it by the friend who recommended it. It’s the story of a misfit, a depressive young Australian man whose parents try hard to make
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michel Franco
Starring: Albertine Kotting McMillan | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Henry Goodman | Iazua Larios | Samuel Bottomley | Tim Roth
Diane says: “A slow burn of a mystery, a puzzle for the viewer, with Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg paired excellently. Mexican director Michel Franco opens with some intriguing images of an upscale Acapulco vacation: freshly caught fish gasping; crashing
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Starring: Dinara Drukarova | Polina Aug | Seidi Haarla | Valeriy Nikolaev | Yuliya Aug | Yuriy Borisov
Brett says: “‘I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . [. . . ] And on the pedestal, these words appear: [. . .]Look on
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kateryna Gornostai
Starring: Arsenii Markov | Maria Fedorchenko | Oleksandr Ivanov | Yana Isaienko
Michael says: “Kateryna Gornostal marries her documentary filmmaking experience, with a narrative on regular teen life in the Ukraine in this ordinary, yet powerful story that follows a small group of friends through their senior year of high school. There
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Showalter
Starring: Andrew Garfield | Cherry Jones | Jessica Chastain | Mark Wystrach | Sam Jaeger | Vincent D'Onofrio
Thom says: “Director Showalter (who seems to be a Hollywood jack-of-all-trades as he has numerous credits as Director, Actor, Writer, Producer, Soundtrack, Self, & Thanks) started out with a decided disaster with the insipid THE BAXTER (2005, 1 CAT) but
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Karam
Starring: Amy Schumer | Beanie Feldstein | Jayne Houdyshell | June Squibb | Richard Jenkins | Steven Yeun
Michael says: “Family, holiday drama disguised as horror or is it horror disguised as family, holiday drama? At any rate, an aging couple drive into NYC from Scranton, to spend time with their daughter and her new boyfriend at their
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