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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Kyle says: “AT BERKELEY and THE LAST OF THE UNJUST share little in common aside from both being Main Slate screenings of the 51st New York Film Festival, both having very long running times, and both being sharply revealing contemporary
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Charlotte Prior | Ethan Hawke | Jennifer Prior | Julie Delpy | Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Chris says: “*Minor spoilers ahead* “Though not a flawless film, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE concluded almost perfectly: its open-endedness exuded a lovely power as it revisited all the spaces its two leads Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) inhabited
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Starring: Chapman To | Dada Chan | Ronald Cheng | Suet Lam
Jason says: “VULGARIA would certainly be an example of writer/director Pang Ho-Cheung’s incredible recent productivity if it were nothing else; it’s his second film of the year, shot in a ridiculous twelve days. Of course, it is something else –
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Licinio Azevedo
Starring: Ana Maria Albino | Ermelinda Cimela | Ilda Gonzales | Iva Mugalela | Rosa Mario | Sumeia Maculuva
Bruce says: “Three of my Toronto International Film Festival films in 2012 were selected based on a single criterion, that I had never before seen a film from its country. Those countries were Angola, Guatemala and Mozambique. “When Soviet-backed bush
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Dongyu Xhou | Meijuan Xi | Rina Sa | Shawn Dou | Xuejian Li
Thom says: “With so many great films behind him (including RAISE THE RED LANTERN, CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER, HERO, SHANGHAI TRIAD, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, & many others) I would have thought this lovely film would have, at least,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tom Lin
Starring: Harlem Yu | Hui Ming Lin | Janei Tsai | Kenneth Tsang | Lunmei Kwai | Rene Liu
Jason says: “Stick around through the end credits of STARRY STARRY NIGHT, which appear to contain images from Jimmy Liao’s original illustrated book. It’s not just that they’re beautiful (they are) or that they imply that this pretty stunning film
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jeremy Power Regimbal
Starring: Alex Ferris | James D'Arcy | Joshua Close | Quinn Lord | Rachel Miner | Selma Blair
Jason says: “It strikes me as extremely unlikely that anybody else will go into REPLICAS with the same expectations I had – not having reached the ‘R’ section of the program, I had somehow got it in my head that
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ann Hui
Starring: Andy Lau | Deannie Ip | Fuli Wang | Hailu Qin
Jason says: “A SIMPLE LIFE opens with a screen of text explaining how these characters got to this point in their lives, but is intriguingly silent on why its two main characters are mostly alone except for each other. That’s
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: David O. Russell
Starring: Bradley Cooper | Jacki Weaver | Jennifer Lawrence | John Ortiz | Julia Stiles | Robert De Niro
Bruce says: “The buzz was great. The director is a favorite. It has heavy backing from The Weinstein Company. Will SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK live up to the hype? Happily the answer is yes. But to get the most out of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Thom says: “Yes, I’d read all the raves but somehow I had my doubts but 10 minutes into this charmer I was hooked. Rodriguez was an early-70s rock/folk singer from Detroit who released two albums that were monumental bombs and
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