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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: John Krokidas
Starring: Ben Foster | Dane DeHaan. Michael C. Hall | Daniel Radcliffe | David Cross | Elizabeth Olsen | Jack Huston | Jennifer Jason Leigh | John Cullum
Thom says: “WARNING SPOILER: I Do give some information away but since the film is based on fact I felt I had the license but if you would be disturbed stop reading now. “It’s rare to see such an utterly
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Starring: Ai Hashimoto | Kôdai Asaka | Kurumi Shimizu | Masahiro Higashide | Mizuki Yamamoto | Noboyuki Suzuki | Ryunosuke Kamiki | Suzuka Ohgo | Takemi Fujil
Kyle says: “THE KIRISHIMA THING received its New York Premiere at the Asian Film Festival. There is no jury, no prize is given, the film is not a commodity in competition. Nonetheless this film resonated more strongly with me, stayed
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kenji Uchida
Starring: Masato Sakai | Ryoko Hirosue | Toruyuki Kagawa | YosiYosi Arakawa
Jason says: “Imagine a hat containing many pieces of paper. Each one of those slips of paper has written upon it an offbeat comedy trope, and screenwriters start their work by grabbing a handful. KEY OF LIFE is an example
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kang Yi-kwan
Starring: eo Young-ju | Gang Hyeok-il | Gang Rae-yeon | Jeon Ye-jin | Jeong Seok-yong | Lee Jeong-hyeon
Kyle says: “The North American Premiere of JUVENILE OFFENDER provided one of the surprisingly touching experiences of the New York Asian Film Festival. It is a deceptively simple but emotionally resonant story about a teenage boy without family tending toward
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chad Crawford Kinkle
Starring: Daniel Manche | Kaitlin Cullum | Larry Fessenden | Lauren Ashley Carte | Sean Bridgers | Sean Young
Jason says: “JUG FACE is the sort of horror movie that I often have trouble with, where any hint of supernatural activity actually seems somewhat deflating, as there’s plenty of real-world unpleasantness at work. It’s done well enough to overcome
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Miguel Gonçalves Mende
Jason says: “The time period covered by JOSÉ AND PILAR aligns, roughly, with the time it took Nobel Prize-winning writer José Saramago to bring his book The Elephant’s Journey from concept to release, and that sounds like a fairly dull
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Denis Arqueros | Nicolás Klein | Sergio Allard
Starring: Camilia Stuardo | Eusebio Arenas | Florencia Astrorga | Sergio Allard
Jason says: “Alone in the world’ movies offer the independent science fiction filmmaker a fair amount of bang for their buck – you can get by with a very small cast, some unusually still establishing shots taken at the right
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: Chase Williamson | Clancy Brown | Doug Jones | Glynn Turman | Paul Giamatti | Rob Mayes
Jason says: “According to the post-film Q&A (and others I’ve talked to), John Dies at the End is a cult novel that barely had time to gain a reputation as unfilmable before going before the cameras. Director and screenwriter Don
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chris James Thompson
Chris says: “As a teenaged Milwaukee native/resident, the Jeffrey Dahmer case obviously hit close to home for me, as it would for anyone to have something so high profile and extremely grotesque occur in your backyard. This documentary is both
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Alec Baldwin | Andrew Dice Clay | Bobby Cannavale | Cate Blanchett | Peter Sarsgaard | Sally Hawkins | Tammy Blanchard
Thom says: “I feel so lucky to be still living during Woody Allen’s marvelous renaissance and this latest effort is truly one of his best that totally transforms his usually recognizable dialogue into an entirely new aura of intelligence. Most
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