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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Björn Almroth | Goran Marjanovic | Sanna Bråding | Thorsten Flinck
Thom says: “I once spent a week in Malmö, where Moodysson lives with his family, which I know is neither here nor there. I’m sorry to report that this once very promising Swedish director has lost his way. His TOGETHER
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: Dave Cloud | Harmony Korine | Page Spain | Paul Booker
Thom says: “If this wasn’t the worst film entered at TIFF 2009 I certainly wouldn’t want to see what was. This seriously is one of the worst disappointments of my entire life. Korine’s previous film MISTER LONELY was my #1
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Mogens H. Christiansen
Starring: Clara Maria Bahamondes | Jakob Cedergren | Jonas Wandschneider | Kim Bodnia | Stine Stengade
Thom says: “This kids film was way too unsophisticated for my tastes and other than a sweet feel to the story was nearly an anachronism. Two children discover a time-traveler and try to help him out of his centuries old
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yonfan
Starring: Guangxuan Zhu | Joseph Chang | Kenneth Tsang | Terri Kwan | Wing Fan
Thom says: “It happens in 1950s Taiwan, during the period known as White Terror, when an anti-Communist crusade swept the island and hysteria reigned. On one fall afternoon, two young sisters come back from class to find their home ransacked
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Starring: Alex van Warmerdam | Annet Malherbe | Eva van de Wijdeven | Gene Bervoets | Gijs Naber | Marlies Hueur | Marwan Kenzari
Thom says: “This Dutch gem is so droll that I find myself still thinking about months after seeing it at T.I.F.F. A woman who supposedly is dying lives in a large country house where she has assigned servant roles (including
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Don Roos
Starring: Anthony Rapp | Debra Monk | Lauren Ambrose | Lisa Kudrow | Natalie Portman | Scott Cohen
Thom says: “This film was adapted from the novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman. This didn’t really win me over but perhaps it was a matter of relating to it. Emilia Greenleaf (Portman) a young lawyer sets
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Isabelle Carré | Louis-Ronan Choisy | Melvil Poupaud | Pierre Louis-Calixte
Thom says: “French director Ozon was well on his way to becoming one of my favorite TOP 10 LIVING DIRECTORS with his 4 really strong showings WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS, UNDER THE SAND, 8 WOMEN, & SWIMMING POOL (my
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Rating: 0 cats
Director: Claudio Fragasso
Starring: Connie Young | George Hardy | Margo Prey | Michael Paul Stephenson
Scot says: “While I can’t say that TROLL 2 is the worst film I’ve ever seen (see PLANET 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, LET ME DIE A WOMAN, and INDEPENDENCE DAY), I could be convinced that it is the worst film
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard | Jamie Bell | Richard Madden | Taron Egerton
Thom says: “This is a tough film for me to review because although I’ve been a great lover of music throughout my life I never liked Elton John. Over the years he only had a minuscule number of songs I
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Eliza Scanlen | Emma Watson | Florence Pugh | Laura Dern | Saiorse Ronan
Thom says: “LITTLE WOMEN has been somewhat of a Hollywood staple over the years with adaptations of the Louisa May Alcott classic coming out in 1918, 1933, 1949, 1994, & 2018, not to mention the innumerable television versions. I’ve seen
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