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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.4
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Emilio Echevarrio | Gael García Bernal | Goya Toledo
Hilary says: “AMORES PERROS is a film that I’d heard a lot about, but wasn’t sure would be to my liking. However, I found myself completely drawn in for the entire 2-plus hours. “Initially I was taken aback by the
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Luis Mandoki
Starring: James Caviezel | JenniferLopez | Jeremy Sisto
Laura says: “Director Luis Mandoki and screenwriter Gerald DiPego tone down the saccharine syrup they applied liberally to their last effort, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, but can’t resist overdoing the melodrama in the home stretch of their new one.” 2
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Audrey Tautou | Mathieu Kassovitz | Rufus
Bob says: “AMÉLIE, AMÉLIE, AMÉLIE. What can we say about AMÉLIE? “Well, we can talk about how it answers the questions that were raised by the complete fiasco that was ALIEN RESURRECTION: was it that Jeunet was no longer working
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Charles Shyer
Starring: Adrien Brody | Hilary Swank | Jonathan Pryce | Simon Baker
Laura says: “While the story certainly is of interest, it is consistently undermined. Jonathan Pryce is entertaining as the debauched Cardinal whose ambitions are frustrated by Marie Antoinette’s hatred. Yet the movie plays him for a buffoon with a clandestine
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gerard Stembridge
Starring: Frances O'Connor | Kate Hudson | Stuart Townsend
Tim says: “ABOUT ADAM was fun. This was a movie made great by a strong cast, all of whom split split up the work of making it a good movie. I thought Frances O’Connor was especially great.” 4 cats
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Starring: Anna Kendrick | Craig Robinson | June Squibb | Lisa Kudrow | Margo Martindale
Michael says: “TABLE 19 is a sweet romantic comedy with a very unusual pedigree… one that, in a strange way, is better than this film should have had. When Eloise is demoted from maid of honor at her oldest friends
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