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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Starring: Antony Starr | Felicity Price | Joel Edgerton | Teresa Palmer
Jason says: “WISH YOU WERE HERE pulls off something of a neat trick, even if it doesn’t always mean to: The filmmakers might not have anticipated Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer getting top billing Stateside (they’ve each put on North
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Starring: Alexie Gilmore | Bryce Johnson
Jason says: “Ever since THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT kickstarted the boom in found-footage horror a decade and a half ago, there’s been a tendency to make the form ever more elaborate, until the likes of CLOVERFIELD and TROLLHUNTER are basically
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ben Nabors
Jason says: “WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL does not so much tell the tale of a boy who builds a windmill to generate electricity for his poor village as one that has built such a windmill. After all, that’s the sort
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zach Clark
Starring: Anna Margaret Hollyman | Joe Swanberg | Laura Lemar-Goldsborough | Lydia Hyslop | Nathan Williams
Jason says: “It would be kind of amusing if, in the future, WHITE REINDEER winds up dropped into the Christmas rotation of independent-minded theaters, television stations, and online-streaming-lists as an apparent poison pill. Not that there aren’t already plenty of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Arvin Chen
Starring: Kimi Hsia | Lawrence Ko | Mavis Fan | Richie Ren
Michael says: “Both thoughtful and whimsical, Arvin Chen’s WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW is a poignant exploration of a married couple’s domestic struggle while trying to have a child, when the husband realizes he cannot deny his homosexuality. Weichung
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pablo Trapero
Starring: Jérémie Renier | Martina Gusman | Ricardo Darín
Bruce says: “The ‘hidden cities,’ the slums of Buenos Aires, are not as famous as the favelas of Rio de Janeiro but that may be because they are a more recent phenomenon. The tribal people of the western mountains bordering
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ahmad Alyaseer
Starring: Najwan Baqaeen | Zaid Baqaeen
Jason says: “I’m guessing that there’s not a whole lot of money for science fiction filmmaking in Jordan, which is why WHEN TIME BECOMES A WOMAN not only feels less like a movie than a one-act play, but also has
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Amy Berg
Thom says: “Coming so close on the heels of my viewing of the PARADISE LOST trilogy: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS, REVELATIONS, & PURGATORY, I saw this the week it opened in San Francisco. With a big heft
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: David Siegel | Scott McGehee
Starring: Alesander Skarsgârd | Joanna Vanderham | Julianne Moore | Onata Aprile | Steve Coogan
Thom says: “McGehee & Siegel have long fascinated me starting out with one of the strangest films ever made in SUTURE followed by two great films in THE DEEP END & BEE SEASON. While UNCERTAINTY was a decided letdown, because
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jo Sung-hee
Starring: Jang Young-nam | Park Bo-young | Song Joong-ki | Yoo Yeon-seok
Kyle says: “The title is misleading only if your notion of ‘werewolf’ is defined by the usually unclad muscular body of Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black, and CGI transformations into a huge snarling but protective wolf, in THE TWILIGHT SAGA
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