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Review of Adoration (2013)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Sep 2013

Trying to be provocative with a capital P, Anne Fontaine's Adore undermines itself by provoking unintended laughs…

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Review of Spark: A Burning Man Story (2013)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Sep 2013

Perhaps most surprising, even the festival footage is ho-hum. We feel a distance, instead of being flies on the wall…

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Review of Afternoon Delight (2013)

By Leba Hertz (37) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Sep 2013

Director Jill Soloway gets the most out of her actors, fleshing out their characters and letting us know what makes them tick…

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Review of Riddick (2013)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Sep 2013

Purely as an action film, Riddick is passable, if grueling. The problem is tonal…

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Review of Bounty Killer (2013)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Sep 2013

The movie is pretty stupid in a lot of ways…

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Review of One Direction: This Is Us (2013)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Sep 2013

The 3-D 1D movie is aimless, seemingly deceptive and spreads a poor message: that it's OK to act extremely immature, as long as you have millions…

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Review of A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

By Peter Stack (261) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Aug 2013

By now, fans of the studied loveliness of Merchant Ivory films savor that they aren't pat, slick or especially action-packed…

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Review of Drinking Buddies (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

This is a special movie…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

The film is beautiful but troubled, achieving in stretches the director's signature dreamy mood but dragged down by narrative confusions…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

Any director who sees Short Term 12 will want to cast Larson in something. This movie puts her on the map…

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Review of The Patience Stone (2013)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

Anchoring the film is an outstanding performance from Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who plays the timid, nameless woman who comes to…

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Review of Getaway (2013)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

You've probably seen this movie before, watching a child play with his toy Hot Wheels cars after eating multiple bowls of sugary breakfast cereal…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2013

Beautiful but troubled, achieving in stretches the director's signature dreamy mood but dragged down by narrative confusions…

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Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 Aug 2013

In addition to Bana and Hall, Jim Broadbent is outstanding in a couple of scenes, as a government official, watching from the sidelines and…

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Review of Soul Plane (2004)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Aug 2013

A better- than-average comedy that is raunchy and tasteless but ultimately funny from beginning to end…

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Review of 24 Hours On Craigslist (2006)

By John Mcmurtrie (16) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Aug 2013

A series of vignettes that are edited in much the same way one might click from one random Craigslist posting to the next, the film is a fun…

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Review of Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

By Leba Hertz (37) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Aug 2013

Kempner once again educates and entertains with unexpected tidbits and just plain good old-fashioned filmmaking…

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Review of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

By Judy Stone (30) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Aug 2013

Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a wondrous feat of imagination…

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Review of Scenic Route (2013)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Aug 2013

Sometimes indie pictures like this, with over-the-top acting and outrageous situations, are meant as a calling card for its creators - a chance…

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Review of Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Aug 2013

This elegant movie never reduces or diminishes its subjects, and leaves us to ponder a remarkable truth - that Ushio and Noriko have an abiding…

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