Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9 cats
Director: Eva Victor
Starring: Eva Victor | John Carroll Lynch | Kelly McCormack | Louis Cancelmi | Lucas Hedges | Naomi Ackie
Julie says: “Eva Victor is someone to watch. She’s a chameleon of sorts not recognizable to me as the main character of the movie when she intro’s the movie as I’m sitting in the middle of the Coolidge large theater.
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Charlie Shackleton
Julie says: “The director was so insightful and his laughing through the narration (at appropriate moments) of ‘the movie that wasn’t’ was so wonderful and so infectious! Excellent deconstruction of crime movies and film in general, and so funny as
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Rating: 4.7 cats
Director: Davis Guggenheim | Nyle DiMarco
Chris says: “I knew nothing about Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college in Washington DC for the deaf and hard of hearing; nor was I familiar with the 1988 eight-day, student-led protest against the appointment of a non-deaf president instead of two
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Andrew DeYoung
Starring: Jack Dylan Grazer | Kate Mara | Paul Rudd | Rick Worthy | Tim Robinson
Michael says: “This dark buddy comedy succeeds or fails on your knowledge and appreciation of star Tim Robinson, a sketch comic who is best known for his TV show, ‘I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.’ I had never
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Rating: 3.625 cats | 3.75 cats
Director: Bernhard Wenger
Starring: Albrecht Schuch | Anton Noori | Julia Franz Richter | Salka Weber | Theresa Frostad Eggesbø
Chris says: “Matthias (handsome beanpole Albrecht Schuch) has a most unusual job ‘renting’ himself out to temporarily be whomever one needs him to: whether a friend, son, father or dinner-date companion, he’s a willing blank slate, a cipher who can
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Rating: 3.625 cats | 4 cats
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Chris says: “Where to begin with PAVEMENTS? Is it a vehicle meant to document the famed 1990s indie-rock quintet Pavement as they reunite and rehearse for a 2022 tour? A biopic of the band casting the likes of Joe Keery
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Rating: 2.3 cats
Director: Neo Sora
Starring: Hayato Kurihara | Makiko Watanabe | Shia Peng | Shirô Sano | Yuta Koga
Michael says: “Japanese film, HAPPYEND is the debut narrative feature from director Neo Sora, whose previous work has been in shorts and documentaries. HAPPYEND is a fairly standard story about a group of high school friends nearing graduation who are
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Laks says: “We got a timely Chlotrudis review of Alex Garland’s WARFARE which I kept in mind as I went in to see Mstyslav Chernov’s (20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL) 2000 METERS IN ANDRIIVKA. The film opens with a description of the
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Rating: 4.625 cats
Director: David Osit
Aaron says “PREDATORS is an upsetting and provocative documentary that plays like a morally urgent thriller. Filmmaker David Osit examines the fallout of ‘To Catch a Predator, the NBC show that used decoy actors playing minors to lure would-be sex
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Rating: 3.25 cats
Director: Mariana Wainstein
Starring: Agustín Della Corte | Felipe Gonzalez Otaño | Julieta Cardinali | Minerva Casero | Rafael Spregelburd
Aaron says: “LINDA doubles as a thriller that doesn’t quite thrill and a portrait of an enigmatic main character that never gels into a thoughtful enough character study. Mariana Wainstein’s Argentinian film has a promising setup: alluring maid Linda (Eugenia
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