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Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: Alfred Molina | Greg Kinnear | Michael Barbieri | Paulina Garcia | Rachel Ehle | Talia Balsam | Theo Taplitz
TC says: “I adored this film when we saw it at IFFB this year – and we are actively pushing its two young stars Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri, who just charmed the socks off of us in this beautiful
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Emma Stone | J.K. Simmons | John Legend | Rosemarie DeWitt | Ryan Gosling | Tom Everett Scott
Thom says: “LA LA LAND is a pleasant film that will probably be ever remembered as the movie that won a Best Film Oscar only to be announced seconds later that it hadn’t received the prize statuette, but rather the
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Director: Travis Knight
Starring: Art Parkinson | Brenda Vaccaro | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Charlize Theron | George Takei | Ralph Fiennes
TC says: “I know it’s not eligible for the Trudys, but it’s a masterpiece all the same… don’t want to say much because you need to see it, but it’s going to give the very good but not perfect FINDING
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shakun Batra
Starring: Alia Bhatt | Fawad Khan | Kapoor | Rajat Kapoor | RatnaPathak | Sidharth Malhotra
Jason says: “Like a lot of movies where the filmmakers want to both celebrate family and build a story about what kind of stresses it can place on people, KAPOOR AND SONS can swing from one to the other fast
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Director: Jing Wong
Starring: Andy Lau | Jacky Cheung Hok-yau | Kimmy Tong Fei | Nick CheungKa-fai | Shawn Yue Man-lok
Chris says: “Winner of the John Cassavetes award at this year’s Independent Spirits, this low-budget indie reminds me a little of Jane Campion’s early work (particularly SWEETIE) in that it’s about familial relations and everything seems just a little off
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Prakash Jha
Starring: Kiran Karmarkar | Manav Kaul | Ninad Kamat | Prakash Jha | Priyanka Chopra
Jason says: “I’m not sure how much of a coincidence it is that Priyanka Chopra’s most recent Bollywood film is getting is global release on a weekend when she has a fairly high profile in the United States – she
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen | John Zhang Jin | Lynn HungDoi-lam | Mike Tyson | Sarut Khanwilai | Shi Wang-Yan
Jason says: “The previews for the American release of IP MAN 3 have been playing it up as Donnie Yen versus Mike Tyson, and that’s probably good marketing even if the former heavyweight champ is credited with a ‘special appearance’
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Janet Grillo
Starring: AnnSophia Robb | Famke Jansen | Israel Broussard | Sophia Anne Caruso | Taylor Richardson
Jason says: “I don’t know much about raising kids or autism, let alone the combination of the two, but I probably know just enough to find JACK OF THE RED HEARTS a bit more alarming than it was perhaps meant
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Philippe Garrel
Starring: Antoinette Moya | Clotilde Courau | Jean Pommier | Lena Paugam | Stanislas Merhar | Vimala Pons
Bruce says: “Filmed in black and white reminiscent of the 1960s, Philippe Garrel’s IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN follows the dissolution of a marriage. Both husband and wife are having extra-marital affairs although they are happily married and deeply in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Starring: Ali Suliman | Ashraf Barhom | Eyad Hourani | Nadine Labaki | Tawfeek Barhom
Bruce says: “Hany Abu-hassad would seem an unlikely director of a biopic. His earlier films, RANA’S WEDDING, PARADISE NOW, and OMAR have documented the effects of Israeli enforced apartheid on the Palestinian community. While THE IDOL has many of those
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