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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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: K Youn
Kyle says: “ODE TO MY FATHER is a Korean film about family promises and preservation at all costs. It is melodramatic in various ways, which may render it unpalatable to some Western tastes, for example, gratuitously slamming the audience with
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ruba Nadda
Kyle says: “OCTOBER GALE is a cracking little drama with a perfect dramatic arc in both narrative and character development. It is confined to a tiny private island near Toronto owned by widow Helen (Patricia Clarkson), who travels alone to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Jason says: “I enjoyed NOWHERE GIRL but I must admit to a sneaking suspicion that the filmmakers wind up saying less than they mean to even as they do so in singular, intriguing ways. Or is that simply criticizing the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hal Hartley
Chris says: “Hal Hartley’s gotten the whole gang back together to complete a trilogy also comprised of HENRY FOOL (1997) and FAY GRIM (2006): Thomas Jay Ryan, Parker Posey and James Urbaniak all reprise their now iconic (in indie film
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bill Condon
Jaso says: “One of the interesting things about Sherlock Holmes is that, for as much as he is one of the most iconic and well-defined characters ever created, he rarely subsumes an actor playing the role – for as fine
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fanny Sadiney | Stephen Belber
Michael says: “I just enjoyed an odd little movie called MATCH written and directed by Stephen Belber (who wrote Richard Linklater’s TAPE). It stars Patrick Stewart, as a famed ballet dancer and choreographer, who now lives a solitary existence teaching
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ridley Scott
Thom says: “This entertaining sci-fi thriller reminded me a bit of 2013 multi-Oscar box office boffo returns GRAVITY, which was an original screen play. THE MARTIAN was adapted from Andy Weir’s bestselling novel. While this newish, Oscar-nominated film made less
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