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Review of When the Game Stands Tall (2014)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Aug 2014

More in the tone of the big screen Friday Night Lights than Rudy or The Blind Side, it succeeds as mainstream entertainment without relying…

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Review of Rich Hill (2014)

By David Wiegand (95) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Aug 2014

What makes this elegy worth watching is the unfettered access to Andrew, Appachey and Harley, teenagers who are dealing with a hardscrabble…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Aug 2014

Moretz is an appealing young woman whose star is rising. She'll probably have an exceptional career, but If I Stay won't be a highlight…

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Review of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Aug 2014

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is still a visual buffet, but adding 102 more minutes of double crosses, slow torture and hookers with hearts…

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Review of Ilo Ilo (2013)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Aug 2014

Chen builds his case not with sentimentality and obvious plot points, but through everyday life -- showering, doing laundry, dropping the boy…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Aug 2014

Moretz is an appealing young woman whose star is rising. She'll probably have an exceptional career, but If I Stay won't be a highlight…

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Review of The One I Love (2014)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Aug 2014

It's probably the only love story you'll see this decade that will make you half-expect the camera to swerve and pick up the sight of Rod Serling,…

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Review of Piglet's Big Movie (2003)

By C.w. Nevius (37) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Aug 2014

This is harmless fun for the kindergarten crowd, but even they will notice that the Blustery Day video they've been playing at home is a lot better…

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Review of Mississippi Burning (1988)

By Judy Stone (30) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Aug 2014

Mississippi Burning is visually splendid. Director Parker and his crew have created a film that is unquestionably watchable…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Aug 2014

Really, The Expendables 3 has only one thing going for it, beyond the unremarkable novelty of seeing lots of celebrities in a lousy movie…

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Review of The Giver (2014)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Aug 2014

Just in the last few months, we've seen Snowpiercer and Divergent, which also deal with what happens after a civil collapse…

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Review of Finding Fela (2014)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Aug 2014

For all his strangeness, Fela had a captivating side, and his music could be riveting…

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Review of Finding Fela (2014)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Aug 2014

The film is good enough to inspire viewers to learn more about Fela, but it should be better than that…

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Review of Holy Man (1998)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 Aug 2014

What a waste of a great comedian. What demented casting…

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Review of S.W.A.T. (2003)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 Aug 2014

SWAT is better than Gigli, but so is most outpatient surgery…

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Review of An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Aug 2014

Virtually everyone who sees this movie will be galvanized to do something about global warming -- and everyone should see this movie…

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Review of Heli (2013)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Aug 2014

Director Amat Escalante and his gifted cinematographer Lorenzo Hagerman have crafted a powerful film that feels and looks a lot like Steven…

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Review of Into the Storm (2014)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Aug 2014

It's hard to imagine any movie ever topping this one's depiction of killer tornadoes laying waste to the Midwest…

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Review of Alive Inside (2014)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Aug 2014

Questions of politics and policy, even urgent ones, seem pretty dry after watching Henry and the other elderly patients come to life…

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Review of What If (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Aug 2014

Fortunately, What If rights itself well before the finish and finds its way back to the truth and the light…

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