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Review of Obvious Child (2009)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

Slate erases the boundary between a good comedic performance and a good dramatic one: Her wit is most palpable when expressed verbally, but…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

Without the goneness of Philip Seymour Hoffman hanging over it, what would A Most Wanted Man be worth…

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Review of Obvious Child (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

Slate erases the boundary between a good comedic performance and a good dramatic one: Her wit is most palpable when expressed verbally, but…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Jan 2015

A bit of a letdown in terms of actual characterization and music appreciation, writer-director Damien Chazelle's film is at least a thrilling…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Jan 2015

Maybe only Linklater could do a radical narrative experiment that's also just another low-key slice of life…

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Review of Starred Up (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Jan 2015

Mackenzie supports his screenwriter's humanitarian intentions by bringing out his actors' best, so it's forgivable that Starred Up is shaped…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Jan 2015

Maybe only Linklater could do a radical narrative experiment that's also just another low-key slice of life…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 20 Nov 2014

It all looks exactly like an answer to the question of what would be next from the guy who won an Oscar for the cinematography in Gravity…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 20 Nov 2014

It all looks exactly like an answer to the question of what would be next from the guy who won an Oscar for the cinematography in Gravity…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Oct 2014

The pleasure, however preposterous, is in Nolan's dedication -- creating, maintaining, and to an extent defending a universe in which people…

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Review of Memphis (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 18 Sep 2014

Its metabolism may be unfamiliar, but this extraordinary movie has true rhythm, and true life…

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Review of A Letter to Momo (2012)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Sep 2014

Filmmakers of live-action fare, even that which ostensibly is aimed at adults, could learn a lot from its tact…

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Review of Frank (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 28 Aug 2014

Though packaged for relative ease of consumption, Frank does manage to investigate the frontier between indie quirk and mental illness, the…

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Review of Life of Crime (2013)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 28 Aug 2014

While Schechter takes the hairpin plot-turns more cautiously than more flamboyant and better-known directors might, at least Bey and especially…

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Review of The One I Love (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 28 Aug 2014

The way we were is hard enough to live up to; harder still is the way we might be…

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Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Aug 2014

[It] gets by on typical Tarantino gumption…

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Review of Calvary (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Aug 2014

It's Gleeson who turns McDonagh's self-conscious erudition and defense-mechanism irreverence into something transcendent…

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Review of Land Ho! (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Jul 2014

The filmmakers don't presume to reinvent the recognizably shopworn two-guys-on a-trip scenario…

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Review of Coherence (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 29 Jun 2014

Byrkit's is an exactingly proportioned blueprint for well-paced cerebral freakouts, downplayed humor, and the humblest of special effects…

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Review of NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jun 2014

It's as cozy and self-congratulating as you'd expect from a thing executive-produced and distributed by Spacey…

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