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Review of Plan B (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 May 2021

Plan B is ultimately a gross-out sex comedy that has more than sex on its mind…

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Review of In the Heights (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 May 2021

Art is either alive or dead, and this movie is emphatically and exuberantly living, energized by what can only truly be described as love…

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Review of The Dry (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 19 May 2021

Bana is rock-solid throughout, able to convey sensitivity and moral probity through a not quite impassive facade — never overdoing it, never…

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Review of Dream Horse (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 19 May 2021

Dream Horse is full of heart and interest…

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Review of Final Account (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 May 2021

In the end, the power of Final Account resides in the way it shows how human nature reacts to lies, propaganda and state-sanctioned atrocity…

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Review of Army of the Dead (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 May 2021

Snyder served as his own director of photography for the first time and, aided by terrific effects makeup and digital production design, he’s…

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Review of The Woman in the Window (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 May 2021

The Woman in the Window is, unfortunately, one of Wright’s amazingly bad movies, and this is a shame, with Amy Adams at the center of it…

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Review of Riders of Justice (2020)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 May 2021

At its heart, it’s a darkly comic drama about a man trained to be a killing machine who must rediscover his own humanity before his daughter…

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Review of Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 May 2021

Aside from the disgusting parts, Spiral is a fairly decent thriller…

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Review of Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 May 2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead pretty much works on the gut-level way it was intended, but it gets extra credit for being unintentionally funny…

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Review of The Human Factor (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 May 2021

If nothing else, The Human Factor demonstrates the tall task that awaits President Biden’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken. Good luck…

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Review of Wrath of Man (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 May 2021

If Wrath of Man has a weakness, it’s that even when everything is explained, it doesn’t quite make sense…

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Review of Here Today (2021)

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

Here Today is a weird case — not mediocre, not lukewarm, but genuinely bad and good, cringe-worthy and moving…

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Review of The Paper Tigers (2020)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 May 2021

Undergirding it all is a light but ever present tension between living up to the philosophy the men were taught as teenagers and making their…

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Review of A State of Mind (2005)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 May 2021

Although the documentary is ostensibly about these girls and their friendship, training and school life, a healthy chunk of it is a portrait…

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Review of The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Apr 2021

The film’s overall aesthetic is a pleasing blend of naturalistic drawings, cartoonier designs and Heavy Metal magazine futurism…

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Review of Things Heard & Seen (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Apr 2021

Based on Elizabeth Brundage’s 2016 novel All Things Cease to Appear, Things Heard & Seen is a slow burn, and it spends a fair amount of time…

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Review of Limbo (2020)

By Cary Darling (452) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Apr 2021

This character study, which was nominated for two BAFTA Awards, including outstanding British film of the year, is Sharrock’s second full-length…

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Review of Limbo (2021)

By Cary Darling (452) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Apr 2021

This character study, which was nominated for two BAFTA Awards, including outstanding British film of the year, is Sharrock’s second full-length…

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Review of Limbo (2021)

By Cary Darling (452) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Apr 2021

This character study, which was nominated for two BAFTA Awards, including outstanding British film of the year, is Sharrock’s second full-length…

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