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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Chen Sicheng
Starring: Carina Lau Ka-ling | Chen Sicheng | Nana Ou-young | Tong Liya | Tony Leung Ka-fai | Wang Xue-bing
Jason says: “BEIJING LOVE STORY tells five overlapping stories of romance, and it could have gotten by with just three or four: Some feel like fragments just meant to tie others together, and some could use a little more fleshing
Read the review...Before I Go To Sleep (UK/France/Sweden; 92 min.) directed by: Rowan Joffestarring: Nicole Kidman; Colin Firth; Mark Strong; Ben Crompton; Anne-Marie Duff; Adam Levy Thom says: “Gorgeous, super-talented Nicole Kidman has had such a strange career. She did finally win
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mary Dore
Chris says: “The feminist movement’s early years (roughly 1966-71) seem like such a fruitful topic for a documentary that one wonders why it hasn’t been done before, or at least with the scope of Mary Dore’s thorough, entertaining and wonderfully-titled
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jennifer Kent
Starring: Barbara West | Daniel Henshall | Essie Davis | Hayley McElhinney | Noah Wiseman
Kyle says: “THE BABADOOK is a slick well-made horror genre item that sets up the events to follow with a car speeding to local hospital with mother in labor crashing and killing the father. It follows logically that the relationship
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Director: Gabe Ibáñez
Starring: Antonio Banderas | Birgitte Hjart Sørensen | Dylan McDermott | Melanie Griffith | Robert Forster
Jason says: “For the purposes of AUTOMATA, filmmaker Gabe Ibáñez reduces Asimov’s traditional three laws of robotics to two: Do not harm a living thing, and do not engage in self-modification. Most movies about rogue machines would concern themselves with
Read the review...Ayiti Toma (Canada; 82 min.) directed by: Joseph Hillel documentary Jason says: “Full disclosure: I missed the first few minutes of AYITI TOMA, so I admittedly cannot give a full accounting of the film. That happens when you try to
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Director: Yang Woo-seok
Starring: Jung Won-joong | Kim Young-ae | Kwak Do-won | Siwan | Song Kang-ho
Jason says: “THE ATTORNEY made its way to the United States rather quickly after its box-office success in South Korea, taking just a month and a half to cross the Pacific. It isn’t hard to see why it did so
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jennifer Grausman | Sam Cullman
Jason says: “One of the neat things about ART AND CRAFT is that it hints at a number of different angles to an already-interesting story, acknowledging that it is all but impossible to fit the entirety of a tale of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: Amy Lloyd | Christopher Baker | Kate Fahy | Lydia Leonard | Tom Hiddleston
Bruce says: “ARCHIPELAGO begins with a plein air painter working on a canvas. The painting is abstract and is more about mood and feeling than it is about recording facts. Christopher (Christopher Baker), the painter, is only a peripheral character
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Jonathan Sobol
Kyle says: “Kurt Russell plays a character named Crunch Calhoun, a failed daredevil con-man art thief who repeatedly mutters, ‘Oh boy!’ when he’s in a jam. The only worse Kurt Russell performance I can think of is his indelible Steve
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