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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Glatzer | Wash Westmoreland
Starring: Alec Baldwin | Julianne Moore | Kate Bosworth | Kristen Stewart
Chris says: “Destined to be remembered for its outstanding lead performance and little else, STILL ALICE is a competent literary adaptation about a Columbia University linguistics professor diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Alice Howland is a juicy role
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John MacLean
Starring: Andrew Robertt | Ben Mendelsohn | Caren Pistorius | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Michael Fassbender
Jason says: “I am not sure whether John Maclean narrowly misses the tone he’s going for with SLOW WEST or hits it dead-on; even considering that westerns are relatively rare these days, this one feels a little different. I consider
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Wong
Starring: ‘Neo’ Yau Hawk-sau | Ceilia So | Jan Lamb Hoi-fung | Miriam Yeung Chin-wah | Ng Siu-hin | Ranya Lee
Jason says: “The recent influx of Chinese movies directly into American theaters has been an exciting development, although sometimes the variety has been wanting: Not only have almost all of the movies been Mandarin-language selections from Taiwan and the mainland,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lee Ka-wing
Jason says: “ROBBERY is one of several movies in the festival that I didn’t expect to be nearly as funny as it wound up being, and unlike HE NEVER DIED, this is full-out anything goes material, going for the big
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gren Wells
Kyle says: “The first line of dialogue in THE ROAD WITHIN takes place during a funeral service, as a young man with Tourette’s Syndrome shouts out at the presiding priest, ‘Shut up, fucking pedophile!’ After a few more wildly inappropriate
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Kyle says: “QUEEN OF EARTH opens with a closeup of the tear-stained face and disheveled hair of Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) sobbing bitterly while asking, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ The ‘you’ is boyfriend James (Kentucker Audley), and we
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Samuel Ortí Martí
Jason says: “There are some spoofs that cast such a broad net for their targets that they maybe slip out of the category of parody altogether, and then there are things like POSSESSED which is clearly one-third THE EXORCIST, one-third
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yûichi Satô
Jason says: “I’m not sure when INSIDE OUT opened in Japan, but I do wonder how many folks there saw it as less incredibly creative and insightful compared to their American counterparts, considering that the Poison Berry in My Brain
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dong Chengpeng
Jason says: “I doubt that JIAN BING MAN will be a part of the next International Pancake Film Festival (a real thing in Boston and Chicago, look it up!); there just isn’t enough pancake content to justify adding a feature
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Won-chan
Jason says: “I don’t know if OFFICE ever really gets back around to the question that kicks it off in a definitive way, or if where it winds up going instead is really as fascinating as the filmmakers would have
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