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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter | Olivia Williams | Paul Bettany
Laura says: “After the death of their father, Dinah (Helena Bonham Carter, NOVOCAINE) stays briefly at her sister Madeline’s (Olivia Williams, THE SIXTH SENSE) London townhouse, frustrating her sister’s sense of decorum while delighting her nephew Anthony (Luke Newberry) and
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Starring: Andrea Renzi | Margherita Buy | Serra Yilmaz | Stefano Accorsi
Michael says: “Disappointingly cliched drama about a woman who loses her husband of 15 years to a sudden car accident. While cleaning out his office belongings she discovers that he’d been having not only an affair, but a double-life as
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Starring: Heather Graham | Jimi Mistry | Marissa Tomei | Michael McKean
Hilary says: “Being a sucker for musicals I have to admit that I enjoyed the first half of this film. After that it descended into Formulaic Hollywood Romance territory with Heather Graham playing yet another naïve porn star. If only
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Emir Kusturica | Nick Nolte | Nutsa Kukhianidz
Bruce says: “What possesses talented directors to remake films which for one reason or another are considered classics of their genre? Neil Jordan, director of MONA LISA, THE CRYING GAME, THE BUTCHER BOY and THE END OF THE AFFAIR, must
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Richard Day
Starring: Clinton Leupp | Dana Gould | Eric Stonestreet | Hamilton von Watts | Jeffery Roberson | Plotnick | Ron Mathews
Michael says: “GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS tells the tale of three Hollywood actresses, all at different stages of their careers. There’s the drunken shrew, Evie, a bitter, ruthless, pill-popping, aging actress who had one memorable role in a Hollywood blockbuster,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shushuke Kaneko
Starring: Chiharu Nîyama | Masahiro Kobayashi | Ryudo Uzaki
Ivy says: “This Godzilla film was exceptional: All of the beasts are back for this one, being that it is ALL OUT MONSTER ATTACK. It’s a very smart Godzilla film but it still contains all of the fun from the
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Director: Gus Van Zant
Starring: Casey Affleck | Matt Damon
Emily says: “GERRY is going to be one of those that generates a lot of dissension amongst Chlotrudis ranks, I think. Its an either ‘you love it or you hate it’ kind of film. I’ll say one thing, that it
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Kick Gurry | Maya Stange | Pia Miranda | Russell Dykstra
Laura says: “Proyas, who cowrote with Dave Warner (CUT) & Michael Udesky, has made a film that resembles TRAINSPOTTING if it were sweet instead of edgy. Unfortunately, his third feature seems more like a first effort, with style borrowed from
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Hélène de Saint-Père | Valérie Lemercier | Vincent Lindon
Ivy says: “If you missed FRIDAY NIGHT when it played in the Boston’s Women’s Fest this Spring, please consider going tonight to the Monday Night at the Movies, or catching it at the Kendall before it leaves this Thursday. This,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mark S. Waters
Starring: Harold Gould | Jamie Lee Curtis | Lindsay Lohan | Mark Harmon
Howard says: “The biggest surprise this summer turns out to be the one that everyone rolled their eyes at. FREAKY FRIDAY, yet another Disney remake of one of their own films, is a well-acted, well-scripted piece of family fluff. For
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