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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.
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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“
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Brett Morgen
Cheryl says: “I had high hopes for this documentary and was really looking forward to seeing it when I finally made it to the Arlington Capitol for the last night of its 3-plus week run. “The promo promised never-before-seen live
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Barry Koeghan | Brendan Gleeson | Colin Farrell | Gary Lydon | Kerry Condon
Brett says: “Martin McDonagh paradoxically blasts the audience with deadpan in another highly ironic and character-driven film that adds to an already near-pristine catalog of acclaimed hits from the director. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN fits snugly into what might be
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ondi Timoner
Diane says: “For viewers interested in death and dying, LAST FLIGHT HOME is a powerful film. Documentarian Ondi Timoner wasn’t expecting to make a movie—she just habitually films everything in her family’s life. But when she began to create a
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