Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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: 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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Davina Pardo | Leah Wolchok
Julie says: “When watching this time capsule doc on Judy Blume and an interesting story of her career and life there’s a scene that it so much like a scene in THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE, I had a big
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Léa Mysius
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Moustapha Mbengue | Patrick Bouchitey | Sally Dramé | Swala Emati
Michael says: “For second outing as writer/director, French artiste Léa Mysius tackles mystic melodrama with largely successful results. An eight-year-old girl with supernatural smelling abilities, an forbidden romance, a tragic fire, and some time travel all add up to a filled-to-bursting
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mark Jenkin
Starring: Edward Rowe | Flo Crowe | Joe Gray | John Woodvine | Loveday Twomlow | Mary Woodvine
Jeff says: “ENYS MEN (i.e., ‘mane’, the phrase meaning stone island in Cornish, according to the Guardian) follows a naturalist through her daily ritual, each morning observing the soil temperature around and any change in the appearance of a cluster
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