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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 06 Jun 2019

Funny, poignant, personal and a rage-filled valentine to a metropolis that’s seen its fair share of gentrification…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 06 Jun 2019

Mostly, though, The Last Black Man in San Francisco — which is what Jimmie sometimes feels like in the gentrifying city of his birth —…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 06 Jun 2019

Most of all, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a love letter — not a romantic one, but the kind you write when you can no longer hold…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 06 Jun 2019

This isn’t just a story about displaced communities, it’s about displaced souls, people so connected to history that they never feel quite…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 05 Jun 2019

San Francisco may be waging war against its most vulnerable residents, but if you can enjoy its beauty, as Jimmie and Montgomery do for a magical…

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By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Jun 2019

The Last Black Man plays like a poetic portrait, part tender ode and part cartography of lived experience, bringing a nuanced and hard-earned…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Jun 2019

A strikingly immersive movie, a slow burn filled with subtleties and nuance, with its message nestled in the details as much as the greater…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Jun 2019

The film simultaneously announces itself as an expressive portrait of a city, an endearing ode to male comradery, a leisurely paced hangout…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 19 Feb 2019

Like Barry Jenkins similarly set Medicine for Melancholy, The Last Black Man in San Francisco supplies positivity to the struggle…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2019

The film team is so strong and the direction so fine that it’s simply hard to believe this is actually Talbot’s first full-length feature…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Feb 2019

Aside from exploring the housing crisis benefiting developers and startups, “Last Black Man” hones in on male friendship from the standpoint…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Feb 2019

Talbot has a gift for making twee material feel true, but his grip weakens during the pivotal home stretch of his debut, and as a result the…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

All the dramatic components have not only been well thought out by Talbot and co-writer Rob Richert, but they’re adorned, for the most part,…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Feb 2019

A patchwork of impressions, ruminations and unsolved mysteries, The Last Black Man in San Francisco teems and even overflows with life and…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 01 Feb 2019

This is a film of shifting moods and occasionally contradictory narratives…

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By Anthony Kaufman (83) for Screen International (2,241) on 01 Feb 2019

This ambitious debut features flashes of imaginative visuals, quirky dialogue, and well-meaning messages about gentrification and disenfranchisement…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 01 Feb 2019

It’s a shaggy, wistful film that acts as a heartfelt tribute to both a city and a friendship and when the cutesy quirk that surrounds it…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Feb 2019

While Talbot and Fails claim to have walk-and-talked their way all over San Francisco, the script — and especially the dialogue — is the…

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By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Feb 2019

The subject matter is immediate and engaging. But the structure of this film is languid to the point of aggravation…

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