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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Signe Baumane
Jason says: “I want to champion ROCKS IN MY POCKETS; it is a striking animated film made with adults in mind, and one that tackles a difficult but important subject head-on. The world needs movies like that. The thing is,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jon Stewart
Starring: Amir El-Masry | Gael García Bernal | Kim Bodina | Shohreh Aghdashloo
Jason says: “I want more from ROSEWATER, but I’m not exactly sure what I want more of. More obvious suffering and torment on the part of its protagonist would certainly drive the point home better, but demanding that seems callous
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Director: Raymond De Felitta
Starring: Andy Garcia | Frank Whaley | Griffin Dunne | Michael Pitt | Nina Arianda | Ray Romano
Toni says: “The worst thing about a Buried Treasure eligible film ($208K made in the US) like ROB THE MOB is its title, directed by Raymond De Felitta who made CITY ISLAND. “While it does describe what the film is
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Lau
Starring: Billy Magnussen | Harry Shum Jr. | Jin Auyuen | Justin Chon | Kevin Wu | Leonard Wu | Ray Liotta
Jason says: “Don’t let some of the pedigree that REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS can whip out fool you – executive producer/’presenter’ Martin Scorsese and co-director Andrew Lau have made some transcendent gangster movies, but this one is more or
Read the review...The Return to Homs (Syria/Germany; 94 min.) directed by: Talal Derki documentary Kyle says: “THE RETURN TO HOMS is one of the great documentaries on war — horrifying, infuriating, haunting. It takes place over a two-year period from August 2011
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lee Ju-hyoung
Starring: Jung Woo | Kim Yu-mi | Oh Jae-moo | Park Myung-shin | Park So-young | Son Byung-ho
Jason says: “There have been many, many films built around the twin premises that the family next door that’s too perfect to be true really isn’t, and that they have their own problems. RED FAMILY doesn’t go a completely new
Read the review...The Reconstruction of William Zero (USA; 98 min.) directed by: Dan Bushstarring: Conal Byrne; Amy Seimetz; Adam Fristoe; Tim Habeger; Melissa McBride Jason says: “As much as it’s fun to be one of the first people to see a movie,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Josh C. Waller
Starring: Bailey Anne Borders | Doug Jones | Rebecca Marshall | Sherilyn Fenn | Tracie Thoms | Zoe Bell
Jason says: “The problem with RAZE ultimately, is that it’s boring. It’s got a good cast that executes some good action, but this is a movie that lacks one single moment of surprise in its stupid story. And when a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Andrei Gruzsniczki
Kyle says: “Students of Latin and mathematical and philosophical arguments will know QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM by its more familiar abbreviation QED, meaning ‘that which has been demonstrated.’ It is an essential journey into the Romanian New Wave by way of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jonathan Tiplitzky
Starring: Colin Firth | Hiroyuki Sanada | Jeremy Irvine | Nicole Kidman | Stellan Skarsgaard | Tanroh Ishida
Jason says: “This is a movie seemingly designed for awards consideration that the Weinstein Company released in April, and while that may just be an example of them deciding another horse was a safer bet… Well, PHILOMENA was the safer
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