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By Trypsinogen (3) on 22 Jun 2019

I'm black, I live in the Bay Area (though never lived in San Francisco proper) and I still don't get what this movie is about…

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By Moviemitch96 (552) on 21 Jun 2019

This is a film about an African American man who's lived and grown up in San Francisco his whole life with his best friend by his side, as…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 20 Jun 2019

The movie simply has the best use of music (Talbot is also a musician) that I’ve seen this year, starting with a gorgeous score by Daniel…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for The Seattle Times (964) on 18 Jun 2019

Though his character bears Fails’ name and the picture is autobiographical, it’s not a documentary…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 14 Jun 2019

The movie is daring and unconventional. It’s daring in feeling so static, with a distinctive, unhurried rhythm…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Jun 2019

A lyrical, visually stunning tone poem to loss, lies, reclamation and making peace with the past, The Last Black Man in San Francisco virtually…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 13 Jun 2019

For all its pointed critique, The Last Black Man in San Francisco also offers a fair amount of whimsy…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 13 Jun 2019

“Last Black Man” pulses with undeniable energy and the promise of other, even better films to come…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 Jun 2019

The displacement Jimmie feels pervades most every shot of Talbot’s film and gives it all a slow-churning aura of foreignness and melancholy,…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Jun 2019

One of the most original movies of the year…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Jun 2019

The musical score by Emile Mosseri of the band The Dig, is very fine stuff, supple and surprising in its blend of classical, jazz and pop strains…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 11 Jun 2019

The Last Black Man in San Francisco works best as a mood piece, and as its final act swung back toward heavy plotting, it mostly lost me, getting…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Jun 2019

It’s not a movie for admiring in freeze frame; it’s the kind you fall into with your whole heart and emerge from feeling, for two hours…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 07 Jun 2019

Jimmie’s story is a slow ballad, a tragic ode, a dirty limerick, a wistful lament and a heartbreaking elegy…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 07 Jun 2019

It’s all so handsomely shot and deliberately staged that you might at times worry that The Last Black Man in San Francisco is leaning more…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 06 Jun 2019

Mostly, the movie has a cascade of images and ideas, reference points and glimpses of everyday beauty that flow and swirl and, over time, gather…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 06 Jun 2019

Fails is unsurprisingly exceptional given his relationship to the material, shaping the film’s overall tone as he goes along, portraying…

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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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