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Review of The Ice Road (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Jun 2021

It’s Ice Road Truckers with a plot and concentrated, well-staged jeopardy…

Review of Spirit Untamed (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jun 2021

Whatever its weaknesses, contemporary parents who want a nontoxic Western to show their children could hardly find better than “Spirit Untamed.”…

Review of American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 May 2021

It presents a mostly sympathetic portrait of Mildred Gillars, the American actress who made propaganda radio broadcasts for the Nazis during…

Review of Oslo (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 May 2021

Oslo ultimately acknowledges that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is anything but resolved, and shows why even this first, limited step toward…

Review of Army of the Dead (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 May 2021

Snyder served as his own director of photography for the first time and, aided by terrific effects makeup and digital production design, he’s…

Review of The Paper Tigers (2020)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 May 2021

Undergirding it all is a light but ever present tension between living up to the philosophy the men were taught as teenagers and making their…

Review of The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Apr 2021

The film’s overall aesthetic is a pleasing blend of naturalistic drawings, cartoonier designs and Heavy Metal magazine futurism…

Review of Stowaway (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Apr 2021

If you can buy the film’s unlikely core premise, you’ll be rewarded with persuasive speculative fiction in all its other aspects…

Review of Mortal Kombat (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Apr 2021

Those who just want to watch a cool, competent and only semi-dumb action movie, though, can thank god for small favors like that…

Review of Stowaway (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Apr 2021

If you can buy the film’s unlikely core premise, you’ll be rewarded with persuasive speculative fiction in all its other aspects…

Review of The Man Who Sold His Skin (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Apr 2021

The Man Who Sold His Skin may not be entirely believable, but its many great metaphors for multiple social ills create their own, withering…

Review of WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Mar 2021

Between the talking heads, Rothstein also uses kinetic imagery and spry cutting to keep the potentially eye-glazing subject matter as gripping…

Review of Crisis (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

It’s a more modest Traffic in several ways, adequate at what it tries to say about this dirty business but light on the wider scope of the…

Review of Dear Comrades! (2020)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

Setting political movies in the past is an easy, usually safe way to signal virtue…

Review of Crisis (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

It’s a more modest Traffic in several ways, adequate at what it tries to say about this dirty business but light on the wider scope of the…

Review of Little Fish (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

This day-after-tomorrow fantasy, made before anybody had even heard of COVID-19, is touchingly romantic and emotionally credible…

Review of Crisis (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

It’s a more modest Traffic in several ways, adequate at what it tries to say about this dirty business but light on the wider scope of the…

Review of Outside the Wire (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Jan 2021

It’s entertaining enough, but you wish it had something quirkier, more messily human, more imaginatively drawn outside the lines to it…

Review of Fatman (2020)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Nov 2020

In the humor department, Fatman’s is a scattershot but often clever affair thanks to the film’s director brothers, Ian and Eshom Nelms…

Review of Us Kids (2020)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Oct 2020

The humanity Snyder’s cameras capture is stirring as these young people work past their issues and together on shrewd political strategies…

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