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Meet Me In Montenegro

by Craig J. Clark

Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen turn their personal experience into fodder for this slight but charming indie about a frustrated American filmmaker and a Norwegian dancer he loved and lost. 

  • Mel Rodriguez III’s ostensible romantic comedy concerns the on-again/off-again relationship between two intensely unlikeable people, but doesn’t seem to recognize what disagreeable company they make. 

    In Stereo

    by Mike D'Angelo
  • Ami Canaan Mann’s third feature offers a refreshingly mature, tender romance between two musicians over the course of a few days in Ogden, Utah. But she retreats to convention when it matters. 

    Jackie & Ryan

    by Mike D'Angelo
  • This Australian comedy strives to be a kinky Love Actually. Did the world need such a thing?

    The Little Death

    by Scott Tobias
  • Adding to the ignoble tradition of rape-revenge thrillers, José Manuel Craviato’s misguided, pseudo-feminist bloodbath centers on a woman who turns on her abductor and seeks out other women who have been captured, too. 

    Bound To Vengeance

    by Charles Bramesco
  • Journalist Sacha Jenkins looks at how hip-hop has inspired fashion and vice versa, but despite some great footage and a battery of rap superstars, his documentary has a once-over-lightly superficiality. 

    Fresh Dressed

    by Keith Phipps
  • Three sisters gather in their childhood home after their mother disappears into the adjoining lake in Sarah Adina Smith’s found-footage horror/thriller, which walks the fine line between unsettling and aimless. 

    The Midnight Swim

    by Andrew Lapin
  • A cross between Heat and Bottle Rocket—but inferior to both—Jay Martin’s debut feature is skillfully directed, but its story of a fresh-faced bumbler trying to carry out a small-town heist could use smarter screenwriting. 

    7 Minutes

    by Chris Klimek
  • Appearing nearly simultaneously with his second film, The Overnight, Patrick Brice’s debut teams him up with Mark Duplass for some low-budget scares.

    Creep

    by Scott Tobias
  • Despite the unfortunate title, Andrew Disney’s ensemble comedy about intramural football isn’t a lowbrow, juvenile sports movie, but a smart, absurdist, self-referential parody of one. 

    Balls Out

    by Charles Bramesco
  • Literary references run amok in Antonia Bogdanovich’s wearying thriller about two brothers (named Samuel and Beckett) who get in over their heads in the L.A. criminal underworld.

    Phantom Halo

    by Matthew Dessem
  • A vampire film set in the hinterlands of Canada takes an unconventional, strangely sleepy approach to the genre.

    The Stranger

    by Scott Tobias
  • Between when Kurt Cobain went missing and when he was found dead, Courtney Love hired a private investigator. Benjamin Statler’s queasy mix of documentary and docudrama examines the revelatory audio files that resulted. 

    Soaked In Bleach

    by Noel Murray
  • In their third documentary, the progressive pranksters take a self-congratulatory victory lap with no victory in sight, and offer a paucity of the hilarious stunts on which they gained notoriety. 

    The Yes Men Are Revolting

    by Andrew Lapin
  • Eddie Mullins’ inspired debut feature has many cinematic fathers, but his pre-apocalypse comedy about a couple of buddies who go squatting in Catskills vacation homes has its own uniquely funny, poignant flavor. 

    Doomsdays

    by Noel Murray
  • Writer-director Craig Goodwill’s twisted, big-hearted comic fantasy delves into the dark, violent origins of Cabbage Patch Kids and the people who operate the sweatshops that produce them. 

    Patch Town

    by Charles Bramesco
  • An in-name-only continuation of one of Jackie Chan’s most popular series finds the star facing the limitations of age by going the gritty, Die Hard-inspired route.

    Police Story: Lockdown

    by Scott Tobias
  • A trained-from-birth teen spy faces her toughest assignment when she tries to pass as a normal teen in a comedy that strains to do right by its high-concept premise.

    Barely Lethal

    by Scott Tobias
  • The latest from Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess) creates a love triangle between a pair of trainers (Cobie Smulders and Guy Pearce) and an awkward millionaire (Kevin Corrigan).

    Results

    by Scott Tobias
  • Leah Meyerhoff’s perceptive drama follows a vulnerable, inexperienced 16-year-old who clings too hard to a volatile first love. 

    I Believe In Unicorns

    by Noel Murray
  • Andrew Morgan’s advocacy doc about the terrible human and environmental consequences of “fast fashion” doles out information thoroughly but artlessly. 

    The True Cost

    by Genevieve Koski
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