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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Starring: Carrie Coon | Elizabeth Olsen | Jay O. Sanders | Jovan Adepo | Natsha Lyonne
Diane says: “HIS THREE DAUGHTERS is a study in the distance between who we want to be and how we appear to others. “I was drawn to this at TIFF because I’m one of three daughters who, like the three
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: DK Welchman | Hugh Welchman
Starring: Ewa Kasprzyk | Kamila Urzedowska | Miroslaw Baka | Robert Gulaczyk | Sonia Mietielica
Diane says: “THE PEASANTS is by the creators of the award-winning LOVING VINCENT. Directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (a married couple) adapted a 4-volume, 1,000-page Polish novel—a story of 19th century rural life: farm, mill, church, tavern. “Like VINCENT,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Christian Friedel | Freya Kreutzkam | Max Beck | Ralph Herforth | Sandra Hüller
Chris says: “Filmmaker Jonathan Glazer’s first feature since 2013’s UNDER THE SKIN is just as carefully sculpted and uncompromising; however, instead of ScarJo playing an alien, you have Sandra Huller as a World War II Nazi hausfrau living (with her military
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Andrew Scott | Carter John Grout | Claire Foy | Jamie Bell | Paul Mescal
Diane says: “ALL OF US STRANGERS opens with three scenes of admirable economy. Later on, director and screenwriter Andrew Haigh (45 YEARS, LEAN ON PETE) finds creative and convincing ways to pull us deep into someone’s psyche, adapting a novel
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ilker Çatak
Starring: Anne-Kathrin Gummich | Eva Löbau | Leonard Stettnisch | Leonie Benesch | Michael Klammer
Chris says: “A junior high school is as ideal a setting as any for a taut thriller and this German film gets all the little details right as to why—in particular, a mounting, no-going-back pressure of the sort easily egged
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Chris says: “The influence of THE WIZARD OF OZ on David Lynch is frankly obvious for anyone who has seen WILD AT HEART but I can’t recall the last time I had such a blast watching any documentary. John Waters
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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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