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Review of The Guilt Trip (2012)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Dec 2012

There are laughs throughout, but Guilt Trip isn't joke-happy…

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Review of Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Dec 2012

The only way Bill Murray could seem less like Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park on Hudson is if the movie showed him winning a marathon…

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Review of Any Day Now (2012)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Dec 2012

The biggest strength of the movie is the chemistry between Cumming and Isaac Leyva, a first-time feature film actor with Down syndrome, who…

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Review of The Central Park Five (2012)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Dec 2012

Worth seeing, both for the ways it's timeless and for the ways it encapsulates an era…

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Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Dec 2012

If you loved the earlier films, these are moments you will hold on to, but they're very few, and they're not enough…

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Review of Crop Circles: Quest for Truth (2002)

By Jonathan Curiel (75) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Dec 2012

Gazecki's film is so journalistically flawed and needlessly melodramatic that it will be treasured only by those who share his singular vision…

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Review of Lay the Favorite (2012)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Dec 2012

A small and not particularly ambitious movie, but it's pleasing and exceptionally well made…

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Review of In the Family (2011)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Dec 2012

To see it is to sit there for long stretches amazed at how clumsy, fake and misguided it is…

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Review of Waiting for Lightning (2012)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Dec 2012

It's enjoyable enough, but how much you like it will depend on how much you like skateboarding and extreme sports…

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Review of Playing for Keeps (2012)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Dec 2012

As a movie, it's not much. But it's the best showcase for his charm that Butler has ever had…

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Review of The Low Down (2001)

By Bob Graham (157) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 Dec 2012

If the movie sometimes seems not to come to much either, it does have something to say to those patient enough to stick with it…

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Review of Friday the 13th (2009)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Dec 2012

The reboot of the Friday the 13th series is a pretty big mess - not particularly scary or interesting or even gory by 21st century movie standards…

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Review of Bedtime Stories (2008)

By Jonathan Curiel (75) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Dec 2012

A fun bit of escapism that's even tender in spots…

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Review of Smokin' Aces (2006)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Dec 2012

Even more nihilistic and confused than Narc, and yet a lot better. It's better for some specific and interesting reasons…

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Review of Starlet (2012)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Nov 2012

The plotline is unpromising - young porn actress befriends crotchety old lady - and the setup is underwhelming…

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Review of Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2012)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Nov 2012

In the end, there is something to be said for letting actors loose on a roller-coaster ride, but from time to time, someone needs to be operating…

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Review of Lipstick & Dynamite (2005)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Nov 2012

At its best, the movie is a collection of entertaining memories from a group of gutsy women…

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Review of A History of Violence (2005)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Nov 2012

But for director David Cronenberg and the commitment of his actors, A History of Violence might have been a cartoony action film…

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Review of The Mystical Laws (2012)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Nov 2012

If you're an anime fan, you already know to look past the mumbo jumbo plots and enjoy the visual scope of a battle between good and evil…

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Review of The Collection (2012)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Nov 2012

The Collection is bloody, disgusting and ridiculous, but the one thing it's not is horror, not real horror, not in the sense of tense or scary…

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