Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kieran Turner
Bruce says: “The hype machine is usually associated with success stories. JOBRIATH A. D. is a fascinating documentary about a colossal failure in spite of tremendous hype. Jobriath (rhymes with Goliath) Salisbury was the stage name chosen by Bruce Wayne
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Adriene Mishler | Gary Poulter | Nicholas Cage | Ronnie Gene Blevins | Tye Sheridan
Jason says: “Look at JOE and you see a couple of people who haven’t necessarily done their best work for the past few years. Some will say director David Gordon Green’s PRINCE AVALANCHE was a return to form after a
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Rating: 1.25 cats
Director: Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad
Starring: Dominic Rains; Serinda Swan; Ray Park; William Atherton; Faran Tahir
Jason says: “This is a terrible little supernatural thriller, one of the more clumsily executed movies I’ve seen at a mainstream multiplex in some time. It’s bad enough that one really doesn’t need to get into how timid it is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Gina McKee | Mathieu Amalric | Michelle Thrush | Misty Upham
Jason says: “Early on in JIMMY P., a character apologizes for the way he tells, and it’s a bit of an odd moment, as he’s not the one whose manner of speech is likely to give a modern audience pause.
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ilan Duran Cohen
Starring: Audrey Dana | Aurélien Recoing | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Laurent Lucas | Pascal Greggory
Kyle says: “THE JEWISH CARDINAL disappoints in the way of most fictional accounts of real people and events: The messiness of life must be reduced to the neatness of fiction. This account of the relationship between Jean-Marie Aaron Lustiger, Archbishop
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Kyle says: “THE JAPANESE DOG is yet another outstanding film from what cineastes refer to as either the Romanian New Wave or the New Romanian Cinema. The title refers to a plastic toy dog that waddles, flashes lights, talks ‘baby
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Riad Sattouf
Jason says: “The fact that the satire in JACKY IN THE KINGDOM OF WOMEN so often seems silly rather than particularly cutting might just be the most damning indictment of entrenched gender roles that there is; the whole thing seems
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Trevor White
Starring: James Woods | Mary-Louise Parker | Spencer Lofranco | Taissa Farmiga | Ving Rhames
Kyle says: “‘All I want is a normal life.’ The moment this line is delivered by James (Spencer Lofranco) in the running time of JAMESY BOY is startling, first because every action and character preceding has made sure this is
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Laurent Cantet
Bruce says: “No one can accuse Laurent Cantet of making the same film over and over. Although his first film was not even released in his home country, his auspicious second feature HUMAN RESOURCES (1999) resonated with filmgoers around the
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Starring: Amanda Hale | Felicity Jones | Joanna Scanlan | John Kavanagh | Kristin Scott Thomas | Perdita Weeks | Ralph Fiennes | Tom Hollander
Jason says: “It’s been far too long since I’ve read far too little Dickens, but that actually matters not a whit in appreciating THE INVISIBLE WOMAN; though knowing some details of his work certainly will help, this story of him
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