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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucia Small
Chris says: “By far not the first film about high school debate programs, Lucia Small’s documentary is surely the only one to focus primarily on female debaters. Shot over five years and using Newton South High School as its primary
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Morosini
Starring: Afrim Gjonbalaj | J.P. Edwards | Rachel Dratch | Seamus Callahan | Sheri Fairchild
Chris says: “If it seems outlandish that a young man’s estranged father could ‘catfish’ him as a young adult by posing as a young girl on a fake social media profile, well, it happened to actor/writer/director James Morosini and he’s
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alika Tengan
Starring: Jordan Cheng | Joshua Co | Lisette Marie Flanary | Reanna Barboza | Tyler Ebisuya
Chris says: “It feels too easy to label this as ‘Hawaiian Mumblecore’, even if that’s exactly what it is. The backstory is more interesting: Director Alika Tengan developed this around the real life circumstances of its star, Naz Kawakami, a
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Max Walker-Silverman
Starring: Benja K. Thomas | Dale Dickey | John Way | Michelle Wilson | Wes Studi
Chris says: “With her weathered face, Tennessee accent and general moxie, Dale Dickey is an actress who brings something inimitable to the table. This distinctness has relegated her to smaller, supporting parts and there’s nothing wrong with that. Still, just because
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Audrey Diwan
Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei | Kacey Mottet Klein | Louise Chevillotte | Louise Orry-Diquéro | Luàna Bajrami
Diane says: “Based on an autobiographical novel by this year’s Nobel prize winner, Annie Ernaux. And you thought 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS was as harrowing an abortion movie as you’d ever see. Director Audrey Diwan hews close to
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Director: Russell Owen
Starring: Gaia Weiss | Greta Scacchi | Jamie Marie Leary | Kate Dickie | Tom Hughes
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Keoni Waxman
Starring: Eric Dane | Leslie Uggams | Peter Facinelli | Stephen Louis Grush | Teri Polo
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Michael McGowan
Starring: Alison Pill | Amybeth McNulty | Donal Logue | Mare Winningham | Mimi Kuzyk | Sarah Gadon
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Daniel Raim
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: A.B. Zax
