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Review of Torn (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Oct 2013

Both women are excellent, and they, as much as the movie's whodunit elements, hold the viewer until the finish…

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Review of The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Oct 2013

There is history as it's remembered, and then there's history as it happened. This documentary gives us the latter, and it's a true education…

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Review of Informant (2013)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Oct 2013

This is a multilayered film that not only exposes a man's contradictions - a do-gooder narcissist; a thoughtful, delusional activist - but…

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Review of The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Oct 2013

[Streep] isa pleasure to watch -- and to marvel at -- every second she's onscreen…

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Review of Burton and Taylor (2013)

By David Wiegand (95) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Oct 2013

Not only does it capture the essence of the two outsize icons of film and scandal, it also brings them in for a humanizing close-up…

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Review of Concussion (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

It's a tepid, quiet and uneventful film, directed almost in slow motion, with no narrative propulsion and with a succession of very similar…

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Review of Zaytoun (2012)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

It's probably best viewed as a fable that tries to strike a hopeful note amid the many woes of the Middle East, but the blunt filmmaking and…

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Review of Carrie (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

In a way, the new Carrie is almost too easy to enjoy…

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Review of Escape Plan (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

So chalk Escape Plan up as a pretty good action movie given an extra edge by the intelligent use of its two main actors…

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Review of Carrie (2002)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

In a way, the new Carrie is almost too easy to enjoy…

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Review of After Tiller (2013)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

At the end of the day, though, thanks to the moral complications expressed by the abortion doctors and patients, this movie gives us more than…

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Review of The Fifth Estate (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

Not entirely successful or appealing - not exactly a delightful evening in the company of scintillating characters - but interesting all the same…

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Review of Broadway Idiot (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2013

Director Doug Hamilton was given extraordinary access from the very beginning, so that we see Green Day composer and lead singer Billie Joe…

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Review of Synecdoche, New York (2008)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Oct 2013

The temptation to be emphatic about Synecdoche, New York is overwhelming but should be resisted, because the movie really is a mixed bag…

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Review of The Watcher (2000)

By Bob Graham (157) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Oct 2013

A hodgepodge of half-baked visual styles can't disguise the fact that this dismal thriller is all situation and no story…

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Review of Freakonomics (2010)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Oct 2013

The movie as a whole is a mixed bag, offering up stiff shots of skepticism and a few provocative thoughts on correlation and causality…

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Review of When You're Strange (2010)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 Oct 2013

When You're Strange is a remedial Doors class, taught by a professor who sounds as if he's doing voiceovers for car commercials…

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Review of Sweetwater (2013)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Oct 2013

A revenge-fantasy Western that wants to luxuriate in its B-movie roots but suffers from dull direction and an even duller central performance…

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Review of Machete Kills (2013)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Oct 2013

As much as Machete Kills is a reunion and continued revival, it also represents a sort of gentrification of the exploitation genre…

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Review of Laurence Anyways (2012)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Oct 2013

Laurence Anyways is a formidable display of French Canadian director Xavier Dolan's prodigious talents, but also a case study of a young talent…

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