Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Jérôme Salle
Starring: Conrad Kemp | Forest Whitaker | Orlando Bloom | Tinarie van Wyk Loots
Jason says: “That ZULU Is basically a mismatched-cop movie is not something that should be held against it; that’s a field-tested template which could prove a little more interesting than usual given this film’s South African setting. There’s usually something
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Andrew Matthews | Katie Graham
Starring: Anne Gee Byrd | Brock England | Cyndi Williams | Garrett Graham | Sam Eidson | Vincent James Prendergast
Jason says: “If I were the type of person to walk out of movies (and could have done it without disturbing the rest of the audience), I would have bolted ZERO CHARISMA. That’s not to say it’s a terrible movie;
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Angelababy | Carina Lau | Chao You-ting | Feng Shaofeng | Ling Geng-xin
Jason says: “I’ve got to confess: When I hoped for more Detective Dee movies after seeing MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME a couple years ago, I didn’t really think I’d get them. Happily, it seemed the people of China also
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Lior Ashkenazi | Ohad Knoller | Orly Silbersatz Banai | Oz Zehavi
Bruce says: “I’ll admit to a bit of skepticism when I saw that a sequel to Eytan Fox’s wonderful 2002 film YOSSI AND JAGGER would be made. Sequel can be a very bad word for a film buff. Very few
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Alexis Dziena | Eric Judor | Jack Plotnick | Mark Burnham | Regan Burns | Steve Little | William Fichtner
Jason says: “Even those who haven’t seen Quentin Dupieux’s previous feature-length bit of absurdity RUBBER can probably guess that this is going to be a strange movie from the title alone. The playful, cheery nature of the picture may be
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Juan Carlos Fanconi
Starring: Alvaro Matute | Fabian Sales | Juan Pablo Olyslager | Rocio Carranza
Jason says: “EL XENDRA is impressively ambitious for a Honduran science fiction movie, and it actually does a better job of delivering on those ambitions than a lot of movies whose reviews start that way. It’s not necessarily going to
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Catherine Corsini
Starring: Adele Haenel | Alban Aunard | Arta Dobroshi | Clotide Hesme | Raphaël Personnaz | Rasha Bukvic | Reda Kateb
Thom says: “”I had quite like Corsini’s LEAVING (2009) and went into this with my eyes wide open and was mostly satisfied. It’s the story of a man returning from his bachelor party with two friends who runs over an
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Director: Terence Malick
Starring: Ben Afleck | Javier Bardem | Olga Kurylenko | Rachel MacAdams
Brett says: “Terrence Malick has a new film out. Did you take your pill this morning? “Malick’s TO THE WONDER follows in the footsteps of his previous works, that of a slow-paced stroll through a series of contemplations against the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kim Nguyen
Starring: Alain Lino | Mic EliBastien | Mizinga Mwinga | Rachel Mwanza | Ralph Prosper | Serge Kanyinda
Beth Ca says: “My goodness! This is a wonderful film! It’s amazingly beautiful and emotional!! I have to stop using exclamation points!!!! I’ve seen so many films this year I think are my favorite, but this one has stampeded past
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hou Chi-ja
Starring: Chien Man-shu | Kai Ko | Kuo Shu-yau | Nikki Hsieh | Tsai Chen--nan
Kyle says:”A welcome respite from gangsters and ninjas, the New York premiere of this delightfully whimsical comedy is the remarkably assured work of director Hou Chi-jan, who directed the insightful documentary on Taiwanese cinema history called TAIWAN BLACK MOVIES —
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