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Review of Wild City (2015)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Jul 2015

The car chases and other stunt work are excellent, although there could have been more action, and the downtime scenes of the characters plotting…

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Review of The Look of Silence (2014)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Jul 2015

It's a testimony to how much this is a live issue in Indonesia that some of the credits are listed simply as anonymous…

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Review of A LEGO Brickumentary (2014)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Jul 2015

Even the interesting parts of A Lego Brickumentary aren’t that interesting, but are rather more like the best thing you might hear while…

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Review of Vacation (2015)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 Jul 2015

Vacation is consistently funny from beginning to end, a piling on of dumb but inventive jokes and excruciating, awkward situations…

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Review of Garfield (2004)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 Jul 2015

Nothing really works here, and nobody seems to have put in a huge amount of effort, except maybe the marketing department -- there are many…

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Review of Reel Paradise (2005)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Jul 2015

Not sure we need to know this much about his family life…

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Review of Pixels (2015)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Jul 2015

With a novel idea at its center and some good jokes scattered throughout, Pixels is a relief from the self-serious action films that invade…

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Review of 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets (2015)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Jul 2015

The straightforward, well-edited trial scenes speak volumes, not only about the defendant, but also about the racism that still haunts our country…

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Review of The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Jul 2015

As Zimbardo, Billy Crudup adopts an implacable facade, and for a while we don’t know what we’re seeing — a humanitarian on the brink…

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Review of Do I Sound Gay? (2015)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Jul 2015

It’s cute and easy to watch, though we can’t overcome the feeling that it’s an unambitious film about an ambitious topic…

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Review of Paper Towns (2015)

By Michael Ordoña (350) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Jul 2015

Self-absorption might be a common teen trait, but its glorification here may fail to excite those old enough to know they don't know everything…

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Review of Unexpected (2015)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Jul 2015

Although nothing really surprising happens (the film has no real plot twists), it’s natural and unforced, like real life…

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Review of Pixels (2015)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Jul 2015

With a novel idea at its center and some good jokes scattered throughout, Pixels is a relief from the self-serious action films that invade…

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Review of Pixels (2010)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Jul 2015

With a novel idea at its center and some good jokes scattered throughout, Pixels is a relief from the self-serious action films that invade…

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Review of A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile (2015)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Jul 2015

The film falters a bit near the end, when it dwells on the romantic fallout of the affair, but all in all, “Amina” is an enterprising movie…

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Review of Irrational Man (2015)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Jul 2015

Every so often he inflicts something like Irrational Man on the world, which is so awful you have to wonder if Allen wrote it himself or farmed…

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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Jul 2015

The experience of Southpaw is rather like seeing the truth behind the cliches, revived in all their pain and power to surprise…

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Review of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Jul 2015

First, and perhaps most important, it should be disclosed that my 4-year-old laughed pretty much nonstop throughout Alvin and the Chipmunks…

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Review of New York, I Love You (2008)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Jul 2015

Gamely tries to capture a vast, twinkling cityscape with not one love story - but 11 little ones, a few of them overlapping…

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Review of Ant-Man (2015)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Jul 2015

By being more than a superhero movie, it reminds us of what it’s worse than…

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