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Review of Britney vs. Spears (2021)

By Rachel Leibrock (3) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Sep 2021

Britney Vs Spears often feels just as exploitative as the case it portrays…

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Review of The Guilty (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 Sep 2021

So while Fuqua’s The Guilty is not much different from the original, his direction is crisp, Gyllenhaal’s performance grows on you and…

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Review of The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 Sep 2021

The absorbing rags-to-riches-to-rags story — a must for any classic film fan — is told in The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, directed…

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Review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Sep 2021

Director Stephen Chbosky needed to bring this stage musical into greater balance with the film medium…

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Review of The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Sep 2021

If you know the world of “The Many Saints of Newark” — maybe you’re Italian American from the East Coast, and have at least a dim memory…

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Review of Best Sellers (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Sep 2021

It’s an innocuous and cuddly film, even with Caine holding forth…

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Review of My Name Is Pauli Murray (2021)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Sep 2021

In 90 brisk minutes, we get a three-dimensional portrait of a private, gender-nonconforming trailblazer who not only paved the way for Black…

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Review of Cry Macho (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Sep 2021

But Eastwood is undercut by the unbearably weak screenplay by Nick Schenk, who adapts a 1975 novel by N. Richard Nash…

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Review of The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Sep 2021

Showalter’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which credits the documentary as its inspiration, recreates some of the doc’s scenes almost verbatim…

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Review of Copshop (2021)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Sep 2021

We’re supposed to be taking a fun thrill ride here, with a little existentialism to boot, but Copshop can’t escape its arrested development…

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Review of The Starling (2021)

By Carla Meyer (580) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Sep 2021

McCarthy is one of our finest physical comedians. Every moment of physical comedy she performs here is cringey…

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Review of Malignant (2021)

By Robert Morast (5) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Sep 2021

The film has a fairly clever and original premise — one that’s better left unspoiled as a third act reveal…

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Review of The Voyeurs (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Sep 2021

One wonders how a master of truly twisted movies — say, a David Lynch or a Brian De Palma — would have approached “The Voyeurs.” One…

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Review of Kate (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Sep 2021

Kate looks like most other productions from 87North, the company behind such cinematic cage fights as Atomic Blonde and the John Wick films…

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Review of The Card Counter (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Sep 2021

Schrader’s characters are haunted (please see “First Reformed” if you haven’t)…

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Review of Fauci (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Sep 2021

The strength of Fauci is its underlying theme, which is really not about Fauci at all…

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Review of Come from Away (2021)

By Lily Janiak (10) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Sep 2021

To see Come From Away onscreen now — directed by Christopher Ashley, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway direction of the show — is to…

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Review of Taxi Driver (1976)

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

Its deeply anarchic sensibility has kept Taxi Driver fresh all these years. [20th Anniversary Release]…

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Review of Cinderella (2021)

By Lily Janiak (10) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Sep 2021

Here, where even the stepmother has a backstory, Cannon seems intent not just on trying to blot out the original’s sexism but also its mystery…

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Review of Cinderella (2021)

By Lily Janiak (10) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Sep 2021

Here, where even the stepmother has a backstory, Cannon seems intent not just on trying to blot out the original’s sexism but also its mystery…

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