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IFF Boston’s Fall Focus features telepaths, samurai, and Greta Gerwig

The leaves are turning, there's a crispness to the air, and all those damn students are back: Yes, that's right, it's fall. And with the season comes a small screening series from the the good folks at the Independent Film Festival Boston.

For a few days starting Sunday (October 22), IFF Boston will be taking over the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge and showing some of the most interesting and buzz-worthy films on the release calendar for the rest of this year. We've got new films from Greta Gerwig, Richard Linklater, Martin McDonagh, and Takashi Miike amongst others, and everything else still looks and sounds absolutely drool-worthy. We've previewed the schedule for you, and included links to some of our reviews to the films playing the fest that we saw at some other festivals for your perusal as well.

Kick ass and support a local fest, will you?

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Thoroughbreds
Wednesday, October 25 @ 7 p.m.

This darkly comic thriller was one of the true standouts at Fantastic Fest this year, and you should most definitely check this film out if you want to be a cool kid when it hits theaters in March. Read our review here, because it does a better job getting across exactly what kind of movie this is than we have the space here to do, but we’ll offer a short synopsis: two sociopaths, one slightly unhinged and detached (Olivia Cooke), one rich and manipulative (Anya Taylor-Joy) decide to kill the latter’s step-father (Paul Sparks) when he threatens to send her away to boarding school. It’s one of the funniest movies of next year, and you’ve got a great shot to see it early without waiting in a giant line and potentially not getting in. What are you waiting for?

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