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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi | Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Bruce says: “Although I am not a huge fan of the two Panahi films I have seen (THE WHITE BALOON and THE CIRCLE), the director’s personal story has grabbed my attention. A poster child for freedom in art and human
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Bryan Wizemann
Starring: Adina Porter | David Conrad | Dylan Baker | Lauren Ambrose | Penelope Ann Miller
Thom says: “It’s always nice to see ‘Six Feet Under’ alumnus Ambrose back on the boards and she fits her role here like a glove. Here she plays a down-on-her-luck single mother (Angela) with a precocious young daughter living in
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Jill Sprecher
Starring: Alan Arkin | Billy Crudup | Bob Balaban | David Harbour | Greg Kinnear
Jason says: “THIN ICE started life as THE CONVINCER (and played Sundance under that name) before being re-cut and re-scored to its current form, and that name would have put a bit of a target on its back. The movie
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Carrie Preston
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Anne Heche | Kate Rigg | Kellie Overby | Marcia DeBonis | Marylouise Burke | Miriam Shor
Bruce says: “Comparisons to BRIDESMAIDS are inevitable – another female buddy raunch film. That would be unfair. THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID is equally outrageous, but its sentiments are more genuine and its characters have greater depth. And while we’re at
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Mads Matthiesen
Starring: Allan Mogensen | David Winters | Elsebeth Steentoft | Kim Kold | Lamaiporn Hougaard
Bruce says: “Dennis (Kim Kold) is a 38 year old bodybuilder. He still lives with his mother Ingrid (Elsebeth Steentoft) who treats him as though he were just entering his teen years. Theirs is the quintessential co-dependent relationship. Normal boundaries
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Jessica Biel | Jodelle Ferland | Samantha Ferris | Stephen McHattie | William B. Davis
Jason says: “THE TALL MAN tries to do something worthy and interesting, at least at points, and those intentions certainly seem praiseworthy, but it just doesn’t work. the whole thing simply isn’t very well-constructed, to the extent that whether one
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Diane D'Aquila | Jennifer Podemski | Luke Kirby | Michelle Williams | Sarah Silverman | Seth Rogen
Bruce says: “TAKE THIS WALTZ will have more impact for those who have not seen Michelle Williams in BLUE VALENTINE or WENDY AND LUCY. In all of these films she plays young women in search of something undefinable and elusive.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Fung
Starring: Angelababy | Eddie Peng | Qi Shu | Tony Leung Ka-fai | Yuan Xiaochao
Jason says: “I knew going in that TAI CHI ZERO had a follow-up coming out in fairly rapid succession (a one month gap in China, three in North America), and was still a bit surprised that the movie saves its
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Kern Saxton
Starring: Andy Mackenzie | Cortney Palm | Danny Trejo | James Duval | Mark Hamill | Noah Hathaway | Tony Todd
Jason says: “Ugh, what an unpleasant movie. Sure, it’s the sort of grittily flamboyant crime flick that has an audience, but it’s a hollow, mean-spirited thing that isn’t nearly clever or well executed enough to be worth it. “After serving
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Haofeng Xu
Starring: Cheng-Hui Yu | Yang Song | Yuanyuan Zhao
Jason says: “It might not be obvious from the opening, which is a fine action sequence, but THE SWORD IDENTITY perhaps works best as the straightest-faced spoof of martial arts films imaginable. It’s more than that, of course, but its
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