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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gail Dolgin | Vincente Franco
Michael says: “This heart-rending film looks at a Vietnamese-American girl, taken from her mother at the age of 7 and air-lifted to the United States near the end of the VietNam War. She is adopted by a single woman in
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Peter Care
Starring: Emile Hirsch | Jena Malone | Jody Foster | Kieran Culkin | Vincent D'Onofrio
Michael says: “Whoo Boy! I haven’t seen a movie that I’ve disliked this much in quite a while. “Set presumably in the 70’s, 4 boys in Catholic school misbehave, pay the consequences and grow up a little. Despite a host
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: John McKay
Starring: Andie MacDowell | Anna Chancellor | Bill Paterson | Imelda Staunton | Kenny Doughty
Laura says: “Were it not for MacDowell’s honest performance, the genuine heat between her and Doughty, and an imaginative use of musical themes, CRUSH would be pure Lifetime television fare. While jealousy among female friends is a true enough phenomenon,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Jacobson
Starring: Artel Kayàru | Bruce Davison | Jeremy Renner | Matt Newton
Bob G. says: “Jeremy Renner takes an almost impossible task — demythologizing serial cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer — and hits it out of the park. He has Dahmer’s blandness, which was his key to remaining undetected for so long, down pat.
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Carlos Carrera
Starring: Ana Claudia Talancón | Damien Alcazar | Gael García Bernal | Sancho Gracia
Laura says: “Or should that title be the crimes of Father Amaro? Carlos Carrera’s pot boiler, adapted from an 1875 novel by screenwriter Vicente Lenero, is long on licentiousness and short on subtlety. While the grey shadings of Benito’s character
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Knut Erik Jensen
Janet says: “THE BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB with snow. This documentary about a men’s choir in the small fishing village of Belgevad, Norway, starts out seeming like it will be short, skimpy, funny, then goes much deeper than you’d ever
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Roman Coppola
Starring: Angela Lindvall | Billy Zane | Elodie Bouchez | Gerard Depardieu | Jeremy Davies | John Philip Law
Hilary says: “Roman Coppola officially joins the family business with his directorial debut, CQ. For anyone out there who loves BARBARELLA (and I know there’s at least one other person among the membership that will admit this) it’s a must-see.
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Director: George Clooney
Starring: Drew Barrymore | George Clooney | Julia Roberts | Sam Rockwell
Hilary says: “I think Steven Soderbergh should be quite flattered: George Clooneys directorial debut, CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, is a tribute to his work. Clearly the films they’ve done together have had a great influence on Clooney. Stylistically, the
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Bill Weber | David Weissman
Clinton says: “This thoroughly charming and visually exciting documentary follows the hippie drag troupe who started a legendary anarchist gender-ambiguous theatre movement in late 60’s San Francisco. The Cockettes, a more ribald and daring kick-line than their New York namesakes,
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Alan Taylor
Starring: Ian Holm | Iben Hjejle | Nigel Terry | Tim McInnerny | Tom Watson
Laura says: “In Paris, Napoleon mostly waits for the unveiling of the imposter in order to make his move. The film rouses itself when Napoleon turns around Pumpkin’s (Iben Hjeile, HIGH FIDELITY) fruit business with military strategy, but little else
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