Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nathan Grossman
Starring: António Guterres | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Greta Thunberg
Chris says: “It’s one thing to think of Greta Thunberg as a sound bite or a headline—the outspoken, determined, teenaged Swedish climate change activist; this doc presents her as something more by recording her journey from lone striker sitting on
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Oyelowo
Starring: Alfred Molina | Maria Bello | Rosario Dawson
Chris says: “Solid directorial debut for actor David Oyelowo, who also appears as the father of Gunner, a young aspiring graphic novelist. Along with Gunner’s mom (Rosario Dawson), they’ve just moved to a small town Oregon, where the title figure
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Suzanne Lindon
Starring: Arnaud Valois | Frédéric Pierrot | Suzanne Lindon
Chris says: “‘I’m bored with people my own age,’ notes Suzanne Lindon’s self-named teenaged protagonist; in her first feature, which she wrote, directed and starred in (at age *19*), you can see why. Gawky and plainspoken (resembling a young Charlotte
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Lars Ranthe | Mads Mikkelsen | Thomas Bo Larsen
Chris says: “Pleasantly buzzed while celebrating a birthday at a fancy restaurant, history teacher Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) and his three male colleagues decide to test an obscure theory as to whether one’s life is enhanced if a 0.05% alcohol level
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Nicolás Pereda
Starring: Francisco Barreiro | Gabino Rodríguez | Luisa Pardo
Chris says: “Strange little thing about a woman introducing her boyfriend to her family. It plays like a Mexican episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm directed by Roy Andersson: slow, deadpan, full of crossed wires and subtle digressions. I alternately laughed
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Manijeh Hekmat
Chris says: “Musical trio braves its way through a flood in a camper van in order to make it to a “Battle of the Bands” in Tehran where they believe fame and fortune will surely be theirs. The setting/situation makes
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Cathy Brady
Starring: Kate Dickie | Martin McCann | Nora-Jane Noone
Chris says: “Kelly (Nika McGuigan) returns home to her Northern Ireland border town after running away the year before, to both the relief and consternation of her family, including her close sister Lauren (Nora-Jane Boone). What Kelly ran away from
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Clive Oppenheimer | Werner Herzog
Chris says: “Werner Herzog’s at it again and he’s brought back his co-director Clive Oppenheimer from INTO THE INFERNO along for the ride. The subject this time is meteorites, which takes the two across the globe, from Mecca to ultra-remote
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ricky Staub
Starring: Caleb McLaughlin | Idris Elba | Lorraine Toussaint | Method Man
Chris says: “Urban western or sentimental coming-of-age tale? A bit of both, as a troubled teen sent to gritty North Philadelphia to spend the summer with the father he never met learns to love himself and find a purpose in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sam Pollard
Chris says: “As much about the acronym after the slash as the one before it, this slick but stimulating doc tracks both the slain civil rights leader and the J. Edgar Hoover-led government agency throughout the 1960s. As King’s influence
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