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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michel Franco
Starring: Albertine Kotting McMillan | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Henry Goodman | Iazua Larios | Samuel Bottomley | Tim Roth
Diane says: “A slow burn of a mystery, a puzzle for the viewer, with Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg paired excellently. Mexican director Michel Franco opens with some intriguing images of an upscale Acapulco vacation: freshly caught fish gasping; crashing
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Juho Kuosmanen
Starring: Dinara Drukarova | Polina Aug | Seidi Haarla | Valeriy Nikolaev | Yuliya Aug | Yuriy Borisov
Brett says: “‘I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . [. . . ] And on the pedestal, these words appear: [. . .]Look on
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kateryna Gornostai
Starring: Arsenii Markov | Maria Fedorchenko | Oleksandr Ivanov | Yana Isaienko
Michael says: “Kateryna Gornostal marries her documentary filmmaking experience, with a narrative on regular teen life in the Ukraine in this ordinary, yet powerful story that follows a small group of friends through their senior year of high school. There
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Showalter
Starring: Andrew Garfield | Cherry Jones | Jessica Chastain | Mark Wystrach | Sam Jaeger | Vincent D'Onofrio
Thom says: “Director Showalter (who seems to be a Hollywood jack-of-all-trades as he has numerous credits as Director, Actor, Writer, Producer, Soundtrack, Self, & Thanks) started out with a decided disaster with the insipid THE BAXTER (2005, 1 CAT) but
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Karam
Starring: Amy Schumer | Beanie Feldstein | Jayne Houdyshell | June Squibb | Richard Jenkins | Steven Yeun
Michael says: “Family, holiday drama disguised as horror or is it horror disguised as family, holiday drama? At any rate, an aging couple drive into NYC from Scranton, to spend time with their daughter and her new boyfriend at their
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cho-hee Kim
Starring: Kim Young-min | Mal-Geum Kang | Sang-won Seo | Seung-ah Yoon | Yoo-ram Bae | Yuh-jung Youn
Michael says: “A forty-year-old, South Korean movie producer finds herself adrift in a mid-life crisis when the talented director she has collaborated with for years dies unexpectedly. When this turn of events suddenly finds her unable to find work, Chan-sil
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Gracey
Philip says: “You get from the film how much of a hard worker and how focused Pink is. She takes the role of Mom just as seriously as she has taken her career as a singer songwriter. The doc turns
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Frédéric Ralière | Xavier Fournier
Michael says: “Anyone who knows me, knows that this documentary, that follows the evolution of the female superhero characters in comics from the 1940s up to today, is made for me. As a self-avowed super-heroine advocate, i rejoice in an
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Mayer
Starring: Alexandra Beaton | Barry Bostwick | Jennifer Robertson | Luke Macfarlane | Madison Brydges | Michael Urie | Philemon Chambers
Philip says: “SINGLE ALL THE WAY closely follows the formula of romantic holiday movies but adds the importance of LGBTQ representation and just as importantly models the behavior family’s should display supporting their gay kids. Add this to your list
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Floyd Russ
Starring: Ariana Ron Pedrique | Caesar Hartman | Calliah Sophie Estrada | Henry Foster Brown | Simon Haycock | Vilma Vega
Michael says: “AYAR is an experimental, compelling film that blends the real life stories of the actors involved, with a fictional narrative about three generations of immigrant women exploring complex mother/daughter relationships and the difficult choices that they face. Ayar wants
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