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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Alexia Fast | Jason Blicker | Mireille Enos | Rosario Dawson | Ryan Reynolds | Scott Speedman
Michael says: “Sadly, despite some strong performances by Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, and Mireille Enos, Egoyan’s latest film THE CAPTIVE, became the first of his films to disappoint me. Billed as a psychological thriller, had it stayed in that realm it
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Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Anna Taylor-Joy | Diana Rigg | Jessie Mei Li | Matt Smith | Oliver Phelps | Rita Tushingham | Thomasin McKenzie
Brett says: “I’m sure I’m not the only one who has thought of this by any means, but a piece of advice about Steven Spielberg I always told friends in my younger days was that you should find out the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jayro Bustamante
Starring: Ayla-Elea Hurtado | Juan Pablo Olyslager | Julio Diaz | Margarita Kenéfic | María Mercedes Coroy | María Telón | Sabrina De La Hoz
Michael says: “Here’s a Guatemalan horror film that features the Central American legend of ‘the wailing woman’ a spirit who returns to avenge an injustice to women, but uses the the actions of a military government that resulted in the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rossana Diaz Costa
Starring: Augusto Linares | Fernando Bacilio | Fiorella de Ferrari | Liliana Alegría | Nacho Fresneda | Rodrigo Barba
Diane says: “Director Rossana Díaz Costa gets her own adaptation of this preeminent Latin American novel on screen in time for the novel’s 50th anniversary. Julius is the youngest of four children in a wealthy family living palatially in Lima, Peru
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mélanie Delloye
Starring: Antoine Chain | Julie Judd | Samantha Markowic | Sébastien Drouet
Diane says: “Debut feature by French-Colombian filmmaker Melanie Delloye. Siblings return home to their 80-year-old father’s mansion in Reims to persuade him to sell the house–for his own good, of course! The family members are leery of each other, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Scott Monahan
Starring: Christopher Corey Smith | Dakota Loesch | Scott Monahan
Diane says: “First film from collaborators Scott Monahan and Dakota Loesch, ANCHORAGE was shot in five days with a crew of ten. The director and writer also play the two leads, brothers who hit the road to sell a huge
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Hans Olav Brenner | Herbert Nordrum | Maria Grazia Di Meo | Renate Reinsve
Diane says: “In Joachim Trier’s latest film, the lead from his OSLO AUGUST 31ST (2011), Anders Danielsen Lie, almost steals the show from the main character. But I’m not complaining. Lie plays comic book author Aksel, the first serious relationship
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martyn Robertson
Diane says: “RIDE THE WAVE (Martyn Robertson directs his debut doc) had something for both me and my sweetheart!: Scotland and surfing. WAVE hits highlights and lowlights of three years with Ben Larg, a young Scottish surfer who competes on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alana Waksman
Starring: Devery Jacobs | Kate Britton | Kendra Mylnechuk | Madeleine Coghlan | Rinnan Henderson
Diane says: “In WE BURN LIKE THIS, Rae, a young woman living in Billings, MT, calls upon her heritage of survivorship to begin to face childhood trauma and present-day addictions. Filmmaker Alana Waksman packs a little too much thematically into
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Gabrielle Sanz | Joséphine Sanz | Margot Abascal | Nina Meurisse | Stéphane Varupenne
Diane says: “Director Celine Sciamma (GIRLHOOD, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) disappoints with a slight take on a mother-daughter relationship. Eight-year-old Nelly tries to understand her mother’s depression, especially now after the death of her grandmother. On the long
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