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Review of I Smile Back (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Nov 2015

As studies in female depression go, I Smile Back is less satisfying as a cohesive film than the recent Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, but Silverman's…

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Review of The Peanuts Movie (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Nov 2015

Steve Martino's wonderful The Peanuts Movie is a loving tribute not only to the original comic strips and cartoons, but to the man who created…

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Review of Nasty Baby (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 29 Oct 2015

Sebastián Silva's Nasty Baby declares its button-pushing intentions right on its in-your-face title screen, but it actually ends up having…

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Review of Marshland (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 29 Oct 2015

While we're still pretending that True Detective season 2 didn't happen, we have Alberto Rodríguez's thriller Marshland to satisfy our yearning…

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Review of Welcome to Leith (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 29 Oct 2015

Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K…

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Review of Jem and the Holograms (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 27 Oct 2015

Though there are some light sci-fi elements, the story remains largely grounded and based in the real world, focusing on the characters rather…

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Review of The Assassin (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Oct 2015

It's a beautifully directed film, no question, but also a glacially paced one, with performances that often give the impression that the cast…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Oct 2015

The picture belongs to Cate Blanchett's Mary Mapes, as she endures a very public scrutiny of both her gender and her politics, particularly…

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Review of Experimenter (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Oct 2015

Indeed,Experimenter often feels like an Errol Morris documentary, and though it never quite answers why humans are capable of such inhumanity…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Oct 2015

The picture belongs to Cate Blanchett's Mary Mapes, as she endures a very public scrutiny of both her gender and her politics, particularly…

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Review of Beasts of No Nation (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 14 Oct 2015

For all its brutality, darkness, and ruminations about how a higher power can allow such things to happen, Beasts of No Nation is also leavened…

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Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Oct 2015

Labyrinth of Lies is fascinating enough in its procedural aspect -- including many scenes in the American-run SS records rooms -- even as it…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Oct 2015

Robert Zemeckis's The Walk is as breathtaking as you'd hope a film about a man walking on a wire between the World Trade Center Towers to be…

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Review of The Final Girls (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 06 Oct 2015

The heart of this mostly bloodless picture is Max's relationship with her mother's film character, and there are some genuinely touching moments…

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Review of The Keeping Room (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Sep 2015

The Keeping Room is dark and violent and ends on an ambiguous note, but so did the Civil War and, arguably, the era of Westerns…

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Review of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Sep 2015

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution covers all the important bases, while also suggesting other places for future documentarians to go…

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Review of Gravy (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Sep 2015

The fast-paced Gravy is kind of like a Rob Zombie film by way of Bobcat Goldthwait's Shakes the Clown…

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Review of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Sep 2015

Depressing, grim, dark, and compulsively watchable…

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Review of Wildlike (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Sep 2015

Greenwood brings his usual A-game, generating great chemistry with Purnell in their ad hoc paternal relationship, but she's the revelation…

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Review of Coming Home (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Sep 2015

For all its big emotions, the low-key Coming Home is a less a melodrama than a mellow drama…

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