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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jordan Scott
Starring: Adele McCann | Ellie Nunn | Eva Green | Imogen Poots | Juno Temple | Maria Valverde
Chris says: “The arrival of an aristocratic Spaniard student upsets the delicate hierarchy of an elite, remote, all-female 1930s British boarding school. Eva Green stars as a flamboyant, idealistic, controlling teacher. A slightly overcooked directorial debut from Jordan Scott (daughter
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Jennifer Connelly | Jeremy Northam | Martha West | Paul Bettany | Toby Jones | Zak Davies
Thom says: “How this film opened TIFF is beyond all understanding for it failed on so many levels. There really wasn’t even much pleasure in seeing Bettany play against his real life wife Connelly as Charles Darwin & his wife
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Carter Gunn | Ross McDonnell
Michael says: “I was very excited to see COLONY, which was reportedly about honeybees. In fact, while honeybees drive the story, COLONY is actually about beekeepers, the economics of bees, and colony collapse disorder (CCD), a syndrome that is causing
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Starring: Andy Garcia | Dominik García-Lorido | Emily Mortimer | Ezra Miller | Julianna Margulies | Steven Strait
TC says: “The title locale is a fishing village on an island in the middle of the Bronx, where corrections officer Vince Rizzo has lived almost all his life. Now Vince is the head of a family including a bored
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Julianne Moore | Liam Neeson | Max Thieriot | Nina Dobrey
Bruce says: “CHLOE is a reworking of Anne Fontaine’s 2003 French film NATHALIE which starred Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu and Emanuelle Béart. And CHLOE is one of the rare films that is more inspired than its antecedent. The plot is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tze Chun
Starring: Cindy Cheung | Crystal Chiu | Frank Pando | Kieran Campion | Michael Chen | Stephen Gevedon
Jason says: “I am certain that there is no shortage of bad independent films which focus on kids; after all, there are plenty in the mainstream. Having to contend with boutique cinema and festival programmers looking to please grown-up audiences
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Andreas Wisniewski | Axelle Carolyni | Dave Legeno | Dominic West | Michael Fassbender
Jason says: “I suspect that Neil Marshall will never break through to doing big Hollywood movies, assuming that holds any interest for him, despite just how good he is at every aspect of the job. The man is just too
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Rodrigo García
Starring: Annette Benning | Cherry Jones | Jimmy Smitts | Kerry Washington | Naomi Watts | Samuel Jackson | Shareeka Epps
Michael says: “Rodrigo García is so clearly a writer/director who knows how to create dramatic stories about women, and we can always use more filmmakers like that. He also lets some beautiful performances by women and men shine through beautifully
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Daniel Monzón
Starring: Alberto Ammann | Antonio Resines | Carlos Bardem | Luis Tosar | Manuel Morón | Marta Etura
Jason says: “Director Daniel Monzón seems to know that the hook to CELL 211, with a rookie guard having to impersonate an inmate when a riot breaks out, is as improbable as it is intriguing. He and co-writer Jorge Guerricaechevarria (adapting
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Airel Schulman | Henry Joost
Thom says: “I saw CATFISH & I finally ended up putting in the positive column. It’s very heartwarming in a way. It’s definitely entirely documentary although I thought it wasn’t for some duration. A young man connects with a family
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