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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 0.5 cats
Director: James Nguyen
Starring: Aan Bagh | Colton Osborne | Janae Caster | Tippie Hedren | Whitney Moore
Diane says: “Perfect! My sweetheart and I had recently re-watched Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS and earlier in the day we were alarmingly strafed by gulls. “I thought we’d watch for ten minutes as a joke, but we were captivated. Afterwards, we
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrew Jarecki | Charlotte Kaufman
Garrett says: “THE ALABAMA SOLUTION is the latest production from Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman of Capturing The Friedmans and The Jinx. In it, the story of a poor family’s struggle for truth and justice after their son’s brutal prison murder
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Roman Day-Lewis
Starring: Daniel Day Lewis | Safia Oakley-Green | Samantha Morton | Samuel Bottomley | Sean Bean
Diane says: “I’d seen the gist of a few reviews for ANEMONE (Ronan Day-Lewis, director; Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis, screenplay; Daniel, actor) so was predisposed to be disappointed. Critics were so excited to see DDL back on the screen that
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Aidan Delbis | Alicia Silverstone | Emma Stone | J. Carmen Galindez Barrera | Jesse Plemons
Diane says: “Lanthimos’ latest, about bee colony collapse (if you believe that…), is a remake of the Korean black comedy/horror SAVE THE GREEN PLANET. And it’s very good, but not for me. I don’t like having all my muscles clenched
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Chase Infiniti | Leonardo DiCaprio | Regina Hall | Sean Penn | Teyana Taylor
Diane says: “Hip hip hooray for PT Anderson! His new ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is an intense thrill ride (like BUGONIA is intense, but you’re happier afterwards). Deserving of a screenplay nom for updating Pynchon’s Vineland (once I get my
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Director: Brandt Johnson
Cobi says: “A friendly, earnest celebration of grammar and wordplay. The crowd I saw it with absolutely loved it; every pun landed, and it was fun to feel the room respond. “For me, the concept didn’t deepen much beyond its
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Director: Lav Diaz
Starring: Amado Arjay Babon | Ângela Azevedo | Dario Yazbek Bernal | Gael García Bernal | Hazel Orencio
Vicki says: “A sweeping epic about Magellan that goes on for way too long. Apparently it is one of Philippine director, Lav Diaz’s shorter films. “It does not hold back from depicting the horrors of the two pivotal wars in
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Nnamdi Asomugha
Starring: Aiden Gabrielle Price | Aja Naomi King | Amari Alexis Price | Manny Jacinto | Melissa Leo | Nnamdi Asomugha
Michael says: “There’s a lot about THE KNIFE that impressed me. A complicated tale of a young, black family doing their best to climb the ladder and live the American dream. That dream turns into a nightmare when the patriarch
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Adam Driver | Cate Blanchett | Charlotte Rampling | Indya Moore | Lukka Sabbat | Miyam Bialik | Tom Waits | Vicky Krieps
Diane says: “I think how you much you like Jim Jarmusch’s triptych will depend on your own family dynamics. Are get-togethers awkward, with long silences? Are you boisterous and demonstrative? How well do you know your parents and siblings? “In
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Gabin Visona | Jérôme Commandeur | Karim Leklou | Sandrine Kiberlain
Chris says: “A social media satire that might’ve seemed fresh had it come out a decade earlier, but Dupieux/Exarchopoulos is turning out to be as inspired and correct a pairing as Scorsese/De Niro (and no one has ever rocked a
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