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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Amy Adams | Armie Hammer | Isla Fisher | Jake Gyllenhall | Laura Linney | Michael Shannon
Bruce says: “NOCTURNAL ANIMALS brings as layered and complex a narrative as anyone will find this year, combined with an unapologetic visual style that accents every complex fold of the plot. Added to the vision of Tom Ford as it
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Justin Roberts
Lorraine says: “NO GREATER LOVE is ending a festival run but will be making a theatrical run and I want to put it on your radar. “It played in the Beaufort Film Festival. I missed the screening but met the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Blanca Suárez | Carmen Machi | EnriqueVillén | Hugo Silva | Mario Casas | Pepón Nieto | Raphael
Thom says: “Alex de la Iglesia is such a fun director that I think about him all the time. For some 23 years now he has consistently gone the extra mile to make extravagant rich entertainments that are delightfully complex
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jia Zhangke
Starring: Dong Zijian | Liang Jing Dong | Sylvia Chang | Zhang Yi | Zhao Tao
Kyle says: “MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART is only the eighth feature film by iconoclastic virtually legendary Chinese director Jia Zhangke. According to his own words during a New York Film Festival Q & A last fall, he had thought about not
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Ben Whishaw | Colin Farrell | John C. Reilly | Léa Seydoux | Olivia Colman | Rachel Weisz
Michael says: “I sure hope you got to see this when it had its very successful run earlier this year in the theaters. Greek director Yorgos Lathimos (DOGTOOTH; ALPS) brings us his first English-language film, a hilarious, dark, and pointed
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Aaron Paul | Aisha Takow | Alan Rickman | Armaan Haggio | Barkhad Abdi | Helen Mirren | Phoebe Fox
Jason says: “What one often reads about Unmanned Aerial Vehicle strikes may lead such a person to believe that the way concern about collateral damage drives EYE IN THE SKY marks it as a fantasy, as does the stark, immediate
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Attila Szász
Starring: Dorka Gryllus | János Kulka | Laura Döbrösi | Patrícia Kovács
Lorraine says: “In January 1914, a horrible murder shook up the city of Budapest. One of the most high-profile courtesans in town, Elza Mágnás, was strangled and her body was thrown into the icy water of the Danube. DEMIMONDE chronicles
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Thomas Bidegain
Starring: Agathe Dronne | Djemel Barek | Ellora Torchia | Finnegan Oldfield | François Damiens | John C.Reilly
Bruce says: “Having written the screenplays for RUST AND BONE, DHEEPAN, and SAINT LAURENT Thomas Bidegain is no outsider dabbling in film. He directs his first film with the hand of a master. The acting, editing, cinematography and use of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Pablo Larraín
Starring: Alejandro Goic | Alfredo Castro | Antonia Zegers | Jaime Vadell | Marcelo Alonso | Roberto Farías
Bruce says: “Although I have not yet seen SPOTLIGHT, I’m sure there is a comparison to be made. Both films deal with priests and abuse cover-ups. Pablo Larrain (TONY MANERO, NO) takes us to a house in a remote Chilean
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: James Le Gros | Jared Harris | Kristen Stewart | Laura Dern | LilyGladstone | Michelle Williams
Michael says: “I haven’t seen all of Kelly Reichardt’s films, but CERTAIN WOMEN is the fourth, and the most fully realized in a string of strong films including OLD JOY, WENDY & LUCY, and MEEKS’ CUTOFF. Based on a collection
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