Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Ayumu Watanabe
Starring: Hiiro Ishibashi | Mana Ashida | Seishรป Uragami | Win Morisaki
…an adapted screenplay nomination in addition to other categories like best film or production design, with a beautiful score by the acclaimed Joe Hisaishi. The film mixes a coming of…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stuart Murdoch
Starring: Emily Browning | Hannah Murray | Olly Alexander | Pierre Boulanger
…to sneak back in. A while later, when Eve (Emily Browning) has gotten enough of a handle on her anorexia to be given a little more freedom, she walks out…
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Director: Colm McCarthy
Starring: Anamaria Marinca | Dominique Tipper | Fisayo Akinade | Glenn Close | Paddy Considine | Sennia Nanua
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Meagan Good | Tamara Bass
Starring: Joelle Ashley | Jon Chaffin | Li Eubanks | McKinley Freeman | Mekia Cox | Niles Fitch | Shamicka Benn | Tamara Bass
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: John Swab
Starring: Alice Englert | Frank Grillo | Jack Kilmer | Jessica Rothe | Melissa Leo | Michael K. Williams | Owen Campbell | Peter Greene
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ricky Staub
Starring: Caleb McLaughlin | Idris Elba | Lorraine Toussaint | Method Man
Chris says: “Urban western or sentimental coming-of-age tale? A bit of both, as a troubled teen sent to gritty North Philadelphia to spend the summer with the father he never…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brad Anderson
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Eduardo Noriega | Emily Mortimer | Kate Mara | Thomas Kretschmann | Woody Harrelson
…of the story early on (you’d have to be pretty dim to not figure out why Carlos only lets Jessie examine *that* matryoshka doll), the first big twist is surprising…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Starring: Gaby Hoffman | Jon Tenney | Laura Linney | Mark Ruffalo | Matthew Broderick | Rory Culkin
…up staying for a while, and the siblings and Sammy’s daughter start to share a domestic life that is on the one hand comfortable and warm, yet spiked with some…
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Sian Heder
Starring: Ann Forsyth | Daniel Durant | Emilia Jones | John Fiore | Kevin Chapman | Lonnie Farmer | Troy Kotsur
…the New Black, TALLULAH) has constructed a straight-down-the-line crowd-pleaser (complete with a requisite love interest/duet partner played by Ferdia Walsh-Peelo from SING STREET.) Fortunately, it’s an excellent one. In its…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Yann Demange
Starring: Bel Powley | Brian Tyree Henry | Bruce Dern | Eddie Marsan | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Matthew McConaughey | Piper Laurie | Richie Merritt | Rory Cochrane | Taylour Paige
Thom says: “I’m more than a little tired of this genre trying hard to make basic nogoodniks into sympathetic, likable sorts, They’ve tried to make these films workable since the…
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