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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nikyatu Jusu
Starring: Anna Diop | Leslie Uggams | Michelle Monaghan | Morgan Spector | Rose Decker | Sinqua Walls
Brett says: “NANNY is a hybrid genre film based loosely on the story of director Nikyatu Jusu’s own mother and her experience with domestic work in New York City. The genre elements include West African folklore to amplify the horror
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Rating: 4.7 cats
Director: Charlotte Wells
Starring: Celia Rowlson-Hall | Frankie Corio | Paul Mescal
Brett says: “AFTERSUN is a memory encapsulated within a non-linear vacation narrative as a young father and pre-teen daughter have come together at a Turkish resort under some uncertain circumstances. In fact, the hazy cloud hanging over the film from
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lena Dunham
Starring: Andrew Scott | Bella Ramsey | Billie Piper | Dean-Charles Chapman | Isis Hainsworth | Joe Alwyn | Sophie Okonedo
Brett says: “Writer/Director Lena Dunham returns to the big screen with CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY, a witty adaptation of the book of the same name by Karen Cushman. In this work, a 14-year old girl in medieval England undergoes the challenges
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zachary Wigon
Starring: Christopher Abbott | Margaret Qualley
Brett says: “SANCTUARY explores power, identity, and trauma through a peculiar sexual relationship with a unique cinematic reality-bender format. There are only two featured characters, a dominant female sex worker and submissive male executive who finds himself struggling to find
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Aimee Lou Wood | Alex Sharp | Bill Nighy | Lia Williams | Tom Burke | Zoe Boyle
Brett says: “Bill Nighy plays Mr. Williams in an English adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s IKIRU. Mr. Williams has been a proper gentleman bureaucrat during his many years employed at the County Hall office. The tradeoff is that it has been
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Daniel Craig | Dave Bautista | Edward Norton | Ethan Hawke | Jessica Henwick | Kate Hudson | Kathryn Hahn
Brett says: “KNIVES OUT scratched an itch in audiences that they may have not known they even had when the first film in the franchise revived a standard for classic murder mystery characters in a refreshing new standard of modern
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Bedwani
Thom says: “This is certainly going to be one of the most fun reviews to write ever (or so I thought). When my brother Chuk and I moved from Fell Street to our wonderful new apartment on Laguna Street, the
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Director: Bogdan George Apetri
Starring: Cezar Antal | Emanuel Parvu | Ioana Bugarin | Ovidiu Crisan | Valeriu Andriuta
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Starring: Ariela Barer | Forrest Goodluck | Kristine Froseth | Lukas Gage | Sasha Lane
Brett says: “In what promises to be one of the most distinctive films of the year, director Daniel Goldhaber follows up his uniquely effective thriller CAM with another one-of-a-kind thriller, this one affiliated with the cause of environmental activism. The
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: David Bradley | Jesse Akele | Jessica Baglow | Paul Butterworth | Ray Burnet
Brett says: “A few scenes into ALLELUJAH, it might become apparent that this could function as a stage play, and—of course—that is because it is actually based on a stage play. The film is heavily reliant upon the performances of
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