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Review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Nov 2021

The original Ghostbusters was a singular experience that will never be replicated…

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Review of Julia (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Nov 2021

Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West, the team behind the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary, RBG, the film makes the case for Child as an instinctive…

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Review of The Power of the Dog (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Nov 2021

The Power of the Dog is a beautifully composed work by a filmmaker at the height of her powers. It deserves our attention…

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Review of Encanto (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Nov 2021

Every character, even minor ones, is well thought out and cast; the eye-popping visual design is not only inspired and mesmerizing but also…

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Review of tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

By Lily Janiak (10) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Nov 2021

Perhaps the greatest gift of Tick, Tick … Boom…

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Review of Mayor Pete (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 Nov 2021

It provides unvarnished behind-the-scenes access to a presidential campaign, showing aspects of the process that we would never see otherwise…

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Review of King Richard (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Nov 2021

Once the focus switches to Venus, whatever is going on with Richard becomes secondary…

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Review of Belfast (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Nov 2021

Everyone has a story from childhood that remains vivid in memory, and that feels important enough to immortalize in art…

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Review of Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Nov 2021

Clifford the Big Red Dog brings a warm feeling every time I think of it, and I’m really glad I saw it…

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Review of Spencer (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Nov 2021

It takes one of the most gifted screen actresses of her generation and casts her out to sea with nothing to hold onto but a hideous script…

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Review of Red Notice (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 Nov 2021

Without the sheer watchability of Johnson, Reynolds and Gadot, Red Notice would have been intolerable. It also would have been pointless…

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Review of The Souvenir: Part II (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Nov 2021

The first film seemed a fully formed, lived-in world…

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Review of Finch (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Nov 2021

But there’s not enough in “Finch” to sustain an audience’s interest for a full 115 minutes…

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Review of Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Oct 2021

The “Paranormal Activity” films, to their credit, build slowly, backloading the chills in the second half…

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Review of Hypnotic (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Oct 2021

This is the kind of made-for-cable-level movie where a pedestrian script (by Richard D’Ovidio) with the usual horror cliches is elevated…

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Review of Eternals (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Oct 2021

Eternals is like a movie about a horse race that concentrates all its attention on characters that neither own a horse nor like to gamble…

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Review of Army of Thieves (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Oct 2021

As a director, Schweighöfer deftly plays around with a few genre conventions, handles action scenes capably if not distinctively, and stages…

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Review of Last Night in Soho (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Oct 2021

Last Night in Soho is full of color and darkness, and its melange of past and present evokes one of the world’s great cities. It never lets up…

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Review of Passing (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Oct 2021

It’s a sophisticated piece of work, slightly haunted, with an underlying sorrow that can’t be resolved or remedied…

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Review of Passing (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Oct 2021

It’s a sophisticated piece of work, slightly haunted, with an underlying sorrow that can’t be resolved or remedied…

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