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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Stanton | Lee Unkrich
Starring: Albert Books | Alexander Gould | Ellen DeGeneres | Willem Dafoe
Howard says: “If you can get past the first 10 minutes of Pixar’s latest, you’ll get a movie that is on par with their four other feature films. FINDING NEMO turns out to be a big, adventure film with a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Damian Pettigrew
Michael says: “This documentary about legendary Italian director Federico Fellini is a terrific film for fans of his work. Extensive interviews with Fellini make up the bulk of the film, with conversations with the likes of Donald Sutherland, Terrence Stamp,
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Rating: 3.25
Director: David R. Ellis
Starring: A.J. Cook | Ali Larter | Michael Landes | Terrence 'T.C.' Carson
Laura says: “FINAL DESTINATION was a cut above the standard teen horror flick, leading the pack of current films which examine luck and fate’s relationships with death (UNBREAKABLE, INTACTO), its premise obscuring its slasher film agenda of innovative death scenes.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jordan Melamed
Starring: Don Cheadle | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Michael Bacall | Sara Rivas | Zooey Deschanel
Laura says: “Tyro director Jordan Melamed gets natural and perceptive work from a cast comprised of amateurs and professionals. They mine their own truths improvising their way around actors Michael Bacall and Blayne Weaver’s script despite some genre cliches. However,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Gavin Heffernan
Starring: Denise DePass | Erin Simkin | Gavin Heffernan | Janet Lane | Paul Rogic | Yetide Badaki
Michael says: “First-time director Gavin Heffernan writes and stars in this overly-ambitious ‘out-all-night’ film with mixed results. Given the difficulties that low-budget, independent films face today, the very fact that EXPIRATION exists is certainly an impressive feat. The twenty-three year
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Rating: 3.2 cats
Director: Danny Pang | Oxide Pang Chung
Starring: Angelica Lee | Chutcha Rujinanon | Lawrence Chou | Yut Lai So
Howard says: “See this before Tom Cruise’s company turns it into Hollywood schlock. THE EYE is the latest of the Asian films to be bought up by the power brokers in Tinsel Town and like THE RING will probably be
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