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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lee Won-suk
Jason says: “I’ve been looking to make a ‘costume drama’ joke about this film ever since I first heard of it, but it initially didn’t quite seem appropriate – for the first half or so, this is mainly a very
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Jungyi Ceng
Jason says: “This thing was the highest-grossing movie in the world last weekend, and I’m hoping like heck that China turning out for it in large numbers doesn’t give Hollywood any ideas. It’s vaguely worrisome enough that this sort of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Brie Larson | Jacob Tremblay | Joan Allen | Rom McCanus | Sean Bridgers | Wendy Crewson | William H. Macy
Diane says: “Hey, fans of the book–you won’t be disappointed. I’ll be giving ROOM noms for Best Adapted Screenplay (happily, by the book’s author and Best Actress. This movie was as emotionally intense as any I’ve seen. As THE ROAD
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lee Ka-wing
Jason says: “ROBBERY is one of several movies in the festival that I didn’t expect to be nearly as funny as it wound up being, and unlike HE NEVER DIED, this is full-out anything goes material, going for the big
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gren Wells
Kyle says: “The first line of dialogue in THE ROAD WITHIN takes place during a funeral service, as a young man with Tourette’s Syndrome shouts out at the presiding priest, ‘Shut up, fucking pedophile!’ After a few more wildly inappropriate
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Rating: 0 cats
Director: Helen Hunt
Kyle says: “35 minutes into the seemingly interminable running time of the twaddle titled RIDE, which accurately describes what anyone who sits through this is being taken for, I had exhausted the wait for one single believable moment, curiosity about
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Fouad Mikati
Kyle says: “If you’ve been longing for a movie about rape and revenge, this one is for you. I extend my apologies for allowing my impatience with films like this to repeating IMDB ‘Plot Keywords’ instead of venting purple prose
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Alain Chabat | Elodie Bouchez | John Glover | Jon Hader | Jonathan Lambert | Kyla Kenedy
Jason says: “A sad thing about how peculiar movies like those made by Quentin Dupieux are likely to be more readily available to a larger audience via the various on-demand services is that I’m certain that, at some point while
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Kyle says: “QUEEN OF EARTH opens with a closeup of the tear-stained face and disheveled hair of Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) sobbing bitterly while asking, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ The ‘you’ is boyfriend James (Kentucker Audley), and we
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kevin Derek
Jason says: “There have always been a fair number of documentaries like THE REAL MIYAGI, but I wonder if there are a lot more in the future. Equipment to shoot/record fairly well in 2K is readily available, if not quite
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