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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jim McKay
Starring: Abel Perez | Alejandro Huitzil | Alfonso Velazquez | Fernando Cardona | Genoel Ramírez | Gilberto Arenas | Gilberto Jimenez
Chris says: “Jim McKay wrote and directed one of my favorite films, OUR SONG two decades ago; since then, he’s mostly worked on various prestige TV series. I hadn’t even heard of this 2017 feature, his first in 12 years,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Andra Day | Da'Vine Joy Randolph | Dusan Dukic | Erik LaRay Harvey | Leslie Jordan | Miss Lawrence | Natasha Lyonne | Trevante Rhodes
Philip says: “A great film, my only hesitation in giving it a perfect score stems from a desire to edit the last half. I also would have liked to have seen more of her relationship with Bankhead. 4 cats“
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mona Fastvold
Starring: Andreea Vasile | Casey Affleck | Christopher Abbott | Daniel Blumberg | Ioachim Ciobanu | Karina Ziana Gherasim | Katherine Waterston | Vanessa Kirby
Michael says: “Stories of forbidden love are nothing new. Even adding a historical context, and a same sex passion isn’t all that original anymore. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do something beautiful with it. Witness this year’s Best Movie
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Curtis Vowell
Starring: Emily Barclay | Madeleine Sami | Matthew Lewis | Nic Sampson | Rachel House | Rose Matafeo
Jeff says: “Zoe (Rose Matafeo) finds out she’s pregnant. It’s the worst possible time; an arborist who co-owns a successful tree service with her partner, Tim (Matthew Lewis), and a no-holds-barred adventurer (in her own mind anyway), she’s training for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Starring: Alan S. Kim | Ben Hall | Darryl Cox | Eric Starkey | Esther Moon | Noel Cho | Steven Yeun | Will Patton | Yeri Han | Yuh-jung Youn
Diane says: “MINARI is a gentle family drama, an autobiographical work by Korean-American director Lee Isaac Chung. Mother (Yeri Han) and father (Steven Yuen, also producer) are a loving couple divided by the conflicting drivers of dreams and practicality. The
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sam Hobkinson
Diane says: “Just saw MISHA AND THE WOLVES at Sundance. The director calls it ‘historical documentary that becomes psychological thriller.’ Misha Defonseca published a book in the late 1990s, and lived off the pursuant fame, about her childhood experience in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Chris says: “As with the Fred Rogers doc WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR, it’s near-impossible for me to be critical of one about SESAME STREET, another program I watched religiously when I was very young. Just its opening credits montage of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Naomi Kawase
Starring: Aju Makita | Arata Iura | Hiroko Nakajima | Hiromi Nagasaku | Ren Komai | Reo Sato | Takato Tanaka | Tetsu Hirahara
Michael says: “There’s something about a mother that stirs up emotions. A mother fighting for her child is a force to be reckoned with. In TRUE MOTHERS, Japanese director Naomi Kawase gently and thoughtfully explores the conflict between two women and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Allison Janney | Bobby Cannavale | Bojana Novakovic | Caitlin Carver | Julianne Nicholson | Margot Robbie | Paul Walter Hauser | Sebastian Stan
Michael says: “Anyone who was an adult in the early 90’s remembers the story of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, but who knows the real story? I was an avid figure skating viewer during those years, and was quite familiar
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lois Patiño
Starring: Ana Marra | Carmen Martínez | Pilar Rodlos | Rubio de Camelle
Michael says: “I caught up with one of Bruce’s favorite film festivals virtually this year, as Lincoln Center presented New Directors/New Films. Here is the first of several films I managed to watch. “The Galacian coast featured in RED MOON
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