Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ann Shin
Jason says: “THE DEFECTOR is a documentary adventure of sorts – it embeds the filmmakers and audience in a situation that has very real danger as things happen, rather than having the filmmakers dig up what they can later. Sure,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
Starring: Aamir Khan | Abhishek Bachchan | Katrina Kaif | Kim DeJesus | Riya Ray | Tabrett Bethell
Jason says: “No prior experience with Bollywood’s biggest action franchise is necessary to enjoy DHOOM: 3, and that appears to be very much by design – the heroes carried over from the previous two installments are very much secondary to
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jason Lapeyre | Robert Wilson
Starring: Aidan Gouvela | Andy Reid | Gage Munroe | Kolton Stewart | Mackenzie Munro | Michael Friend | Siam Yu | Spencer Howes
Jason says: “I DECLARE WAR is a terrific little coming-of-age movie that’s made all the better because there are no adults and no real crises in it; it’s just kids evolving into something that’s not quite the same as what
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Rating: 2.7 cats
Director: Molly Bernstein
Jason says: “Even those of us who have never seen Ricky Jay do close-up magic will likely recognize the man from his side gigs as a character actor – and if you stay through the credits of those movies and
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Anthony Dixon
Starring: Jamie Abrams | Jenna Jade Rain | Ryan Brownlee
Jason says: “‘THE DEAD EXPERIMENT’ is going to get abused as a title. There’s the way it’s probably meant to be taken, as a sinister-sounding article-adjective-noun combination, but it also turns out to be a true sentence describing the plot
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring: Denis O'Hare | Jaerd Leto | Jennifer Garner | Kevin Rankin | Matthew McConaughey | Steve Zahn
Chris says: “On paper, this scans as a calculated attempt by Matthew McConaughey to complete his multi-film rehabilitation from rom-com leading man joke to well-respected, award-winning Actor. However, from the instant you see him startlingly emaciated as Ron Woodruff, you
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: John Roberts
Starring: Bryan Dick | Carlos Acosta | Charity Wakefield | Christopher Simpson | Eva Birthistle | Manuel de Blas
Bruce says: “The value of such films as DAY OF THE FLOWERS lies not in cinematic prowess of any sort. They help us understand the many layers of many cultures that most of us never experience firsthand. On the plus
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sebastián Silva
Starring: Agustin Silva | Gaby Hoffman | José Miguel Silva | Juan Andrés Silva | Michael Cera
Chris says: “At the very least, CRYSTAL FAIRY features two irrefutably memorable, if supremely irritating characters, both of them twenty-something Americans in Chile. The first, Jamie (Michael Cera) babbles on pretentiously about The Doors of Perception and harbors an obsession
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Byung-gil Jung
Starring: Jung Hae-kyun | Jung Jae-young | Kim Young-ae | Park Si-hoo
Jason says: “If movies were graded on a strict plus-minus system, CONFESSION OF MURDER would grade out as average; it’s packed full of silly and unbelievable plotting and twists along with a feeling of missed opportunities with its media satire,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sophie Letourneur
Starring: Camille Genaud | Carole le Page | Julien Gester; Eugenio Renzi | Sophie Letourneur
Bruce says: “LES COQUILLETTES is an enjoyable piece of fluff, an example of amateur filmmaking pushing its way into the festival circuit, possibly the mainstream. Anyone can be a filmmaker today especially if they can tap into the beat of
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