About Fate (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Marius Vaysberg
Starring: Britt Robertson | Emma Roberts | Lewis Tan | Madelaine Petsch | Thomas Mann
The Wonder (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Starring: David Wilmot | Florence Pugh | Niamh Algar | Ruth Bradley | Toby Jones
Chris says: “A triumph of production design and tone rather than story, though Florence Pugh is so convincingly invested in it one’s almost inclined to actually buy it. And I’d leave it at that if it weren’t for those opening
Read the review...The Tsugua Diaries (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Maureen Fazendeiro | Miguel Gomes
Starring: Carloto Cotta | Crista Alfaiate | João Nunes Monteiro
Chris says: “Fassbinder’s BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE in the time of Covid lockdown with a similar ennui but richer colors and textures, not to mention petty complaints about breakfast options. 3.5 cats“
Read the review...The Story of Film: A New Generation (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mark Cousins
Chris says: “At 160 minutes, it’s too much of a good thing (the hour-long chunks of the original miniseries were ideal in that regard) and I would’ve rather digested this as the two separate halves in which it presents itself.
Read the review...Clytaemnestra (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ougie Pak
Starring: Haru Kim | Jongman Kim | Taehee Kim
Chris says: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as a drunken bitch-slap fight. 3 cats“
Read the review...My Policeman (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Michael Grandage
Starring: Emma Corrin | Gina McKee | Harry Styles | Linus Roache | Rupert Everett
Chris says: “My policeman has a first name, It’s H-A-R-R-Y; My policeman has a second name, It’s S-T-Y-L-E-(S); Oh, he struggles playing aloof and gay, And the adapted screenplay’s just okay, But David Dawson steals this film; He’s better in
Read the review...Fanny: The Right to Rock (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Bobbi Jo Hart
Chris says: “The form’s nothing special when you consider more ambitious rock docs from ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL to THE VELVET UNDERGROUND; fortunately, the content tells such an essential, long-obscured story that you come away from it practically beaming
Read the review...Broker (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.6
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Bae Doona | Dong-Won Gang | Ji-eun Lee | Lee Joo-young | Song Kang-ho
Chris says: “After a brief sojourn in France (THE TRUTH), director Hirokazu Kore-eda made this movie in South Korea rather than his home country of Japan, purportedly so he could work with the actor Song Kang-ho (he was most recently
Read the review...Armageddon Times (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: James Gray
Starring: Anne Hathaway | Anthony Hopkins | Banks Repeta | Jaylin Webb | Jeremy Strong
Chris says: “The latest from writer/director James Gray is almost nakedly autobiographical. His 11-year-old alter ego, Paul (Banks Repeta) lives in Queens, 1980 (as Gray did), the younger son of a middle-class Jewish-American family whose grandfather (Anthony Hopkins) arrived at
Read the review...Tantura (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alon Schwarz
Diane says: “Were hundreds of Palestinians massacred in their village of Tantura in 1948? Director Alon Schwarz has created an investigation into a prior scholarly investigation into an incident in Israel’s War of Independence. His ‘star’ is Teddy Katz, whose graduate
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