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Review of Prince Avalanche (2013)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Aug 2013

Plenty of absurd and deadpan humor, even slapstick, with a melancholy undertone…

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Review of Planes (2013)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Aug 2013

Airplane buffs are going to have a particularly good time; each of the planes seems to have an obscure real-life counterpart…

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Review of The Attack (2012)

By Leba Hertz (37) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Aug 2013

There's nothing new here about the conflict, but the film portrays the two sides fairly - both right, both wrong…

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Review of Elysium (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Aug 2013

Blomkamp's universe is a fascinating place to visit and the movie is stuffed with ideas - there's far too much here to satisfactorily explore…

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Review of The Canyons (2013)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Aug 2013

A tale of young, vapid, sexually insatiable Z-listers in Hollywood had the credentials to be deliciously awful fun but almost every time something…

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Review of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Aug 2013

There are plenty of bad films to get riled up about in the summer. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters isn't one of them…

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Review of We're the Millers (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 Aug 2013

Get past the comedy and there's something almost weird at the movie's core - a deep cynicism about family and a longing for family, both at…

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Review of Flash of Genius (2008)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 Aug 2013

An enjoyable way to start the Oscar season…

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Review of Transamerica (2005)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 Aug 2013

Transamerica provides the frame and the occasion for one of the year's best performances, Felicity Huffman's as a woman trapped in a man's…

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Review of Mindhunters (2004)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Aug 2013

Mindhunters is as effective as a movie can be and yet still be 100 percent forgettable…

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Review of Quiz Show (1994)

By Peter Stack (261) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 02 Aug 2013

Robert Redford's exceptionally handsome and provocative Quiz Show manages a trick that few films even dare try -- to take a hard look at personal…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda (2008)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Aug 2013

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is probably the best movie so far this year about a kung-fu fighting panda…

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Review of Drift (2013)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Aug 2013

The direction, by Ben Nott and Morgan O'Neill, is average, except for the surfing sequences, which are easily as striking as what we see in…

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Review of Hannah Arendt (2012)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 31 Jul 2013

Balanced portrayal, makes a persuasive case that Arendt was a valuable voice, whose dedicated work in trying to unravel the causes of Europe's…

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Review of Drift (2013)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 31 Jul 2013

The direction, by Ben Nott and Morgan O'Neill, is average, except for the surfing sequences, which are easily as striking as what we see in…

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Review of Downloaded (2013)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 31 Jul 2013

As you watch the film, you'll be amazed how the world of the Internet turns the recent into the ancient: In a matter of only a few years, a…

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Review of 2 Guns (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 31 Jul 2013

It's a complete mess, the spectacle of filmmakers blowing up their movie and everything in it, because they can't think of anything else to do…

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Review of Blue Jasmine (2013)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 31 Jul 2013

Blanchett in Blue Jasmine is beyond brilliant, beyond analysis…

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Review of Whiz Kids (2010)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 31 Jul 2013

Though the film seems less like a theatrical release and more like something that might play on an obscure PBS station at 2 p.m…

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Review of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 31 Jul 2013

Legend of the Guardians sounds as if it were scripted by a team of 11-year-old boys, with too much plot for its 91-minute running time, a script…

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