Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: André 3000 | Hong Chau | Lauren Lakis | Michelle Williams | Todd-o-Phonic Todd
Diane says: “Kelly Reichardt’s latest, starring Michelle Williams as a closed-up ceramic artist, satirizes the art school scene perfectly, from funky clothing and cheese-heavy gallery openings to parent-child competition and every kind of crafts class. (I saw it with my
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Nida Manzoor
Starring: Rekha John-Cheriyan | Renu Brindle | Ritu Arya | riya Kansara | Seraphina Beh
Diane says: “A colorful mashup of Jane Austen, martial arts, horror, and more, which for me failed. “High schooler Ria, an aspiring stuntwoman, is upset—very upset—when her older sister/bf Lena gives up on an art career and decides to marry
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Matt Johnson
Starring: Cary Elwes | Glenn Howerton | Jay Baruchel | Matt Johnson | Saul Rubinek
Amanda says: “BLACKBERRY is a biographical comedy-drama film that chronicles the captivating journey of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in Waterloo, Canada that starts in the late 1990’s. These two individuals played a pivotal role in shaping the extraordinary ascent
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Anthony Shim
Starring: Anthony Shim | Choi Seung-yoon | Dohyun Noel Hwang | Ethan Hwang | Hunter Dillon
Michael says: “Even though I wasn’t able to catch the IFFBoston’s much lauded closing night film, I ended my festival experience the night before with a very strong showing. This powerful tale of a Korean immigrant who comes to Canada
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Adolphus
Michael says: “It would be difficult for me not to like a documentary about Mary Tyler Moore, an actor and celebrity that I am obviously very well aware of, have enjoyed in many TV and movie appearances, but actually not
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Inna Sahakyan
Michael says: “A fascinating, beautifully recounted documentary about a teenaged girl who survived losing her family, enduring rape and slavery during the Armenian genocide, only to end up in the manipulative mechanisms of Hollywood. Aurora Mardiganian survived months of marching
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chie Hayakawa
Starring: Chieko Baisho | Hayato Isomura | Stefanie Arianne | Taka Takao | Yumi Kawai
Michael says: “The best speculative fiction can illuminate both flaws and beauty of the human condition,. Chie Hayakawa’s adaptation of a story by Jason Gray does this beautifully in a gentle but sobering examination of the worth of a human being
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Enno Trebs | Langston Uibel | Matthias Brandt | Paula Beer | Thomas Schubert
Chris says: “Two young Berliners, Leon (Thomas Schubert), a writer struggling to finish his novel and his friend Felix (Langston Uibel), a photographer, take a trip to a cabin in the woods near the Baltic Sea owned by Felix’s mother. Upon
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Starring: Anne Ramsay | Ezra Buzzington | Jeremy Holm | Larry Fessenden | Ron E. Rains
Brett says: “A person kills herself/himself and then a stage play breaks out. So, it’s Chekhov or Ibsen in reverse, right? Throw in a seance to bring back said dead person from the grave and BROOKLYN 45 might just fit
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Estefanía Contreras | Miguel Drake-McLaughlin | Silvia Del Carmen Castaños
Chris says: “Best friends Silva and Estefania (nicknamed ‘Beba’) are two teenagers in Laredo, Texas. They engage in typical activities for their age: hanging out at the convenience store parking lot, sneaking past the gates of vacant or abandoned homes, sitting
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