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Review of The Virtuoso (2021)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Apr 2021

The Virtuoso covers well-worn territory — the assassin story is almost a genre unto itself — and director Nick Stagliano, hampered by a…

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Review of Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)

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

Sollima knows how to film violence, so individual moments stand out. What Sollima can’t do is make a good movie from a bad script…

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Review of Stowaway (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Apr 2021

If you can buy the film’s unlikely core premise, you’ll be rewarded with persuasive speculative fiction in all its other aspects…

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Review of Mortal Kombat (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Apr 2021

Those who just want to watch a cool, competent and only semi-dumb action movie, though, can thank god for small favors like that…

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Review of Stowaway (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Apr 2021

If you can buy the film’s unlikely core premise, you’ll be rewarded with persuasive speculative fiction in all its other aspects…

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Review of Together Together (2021)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Apr 2021

Beckwith, though, rallies with some memorable moments in the third trimester and nails the climactic scene with gut-wrenching efficiency…

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Review of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Apr 2021

Street Gang is a worthy celebration of a one-of-a-kind program. If you’re not careful, it might leave you humming your ABC’s…

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Review of Vanquish (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Apr 2021

Anyone wondering what 1960s TV show Ironside would have been like if Raymond Burr had been a dirty cop gets their answer courtesy of Morgan…

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Review of Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts (2021)

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

Jeffrey Wolf’s exceptional documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts seeks to tells its subject’s story in a deeply personal way, while…

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Review of Thunder Force (2021)

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

The likability of Lydia and Emily helps, but writer-director Ben Falcone’s tendency to milk emotion that isn’t there drags down the movie…

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Review of The Man Who Sold His Skin (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Apr 2021

The Man Who Sold His Skin may not be entirely believable, but its many great metaphors for multiple social ills create their own, withering…

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Review of Voyagers (2021)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Apr 2021

The technically elegant Voyagers, about a space colonization trip run amok, is easy enough to sit through, but it’s a story in need of more…

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Review of French Exit (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 31 Mar 2021

French Exit is worth seeing because it gives a juicy role to Michelle Pfeiffer, who is something to marvel at…

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Review of WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021)

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

Between the talking heads, Rothstein also uses kinetic imagery and spry cutting to keep the potentially eye-glazing subject matter as gripping…

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Review of The Last Cruise (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Mar 2021

Using footage mostly from the cameras of various passengers and crew, the documentary takes us inside the experience of being stuck inside…

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Review of Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Mar 2021

If you’re looking for scenes of big, awful creatures fighting each other and knocking over skyscrapers — and for the spectacle of people…

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Review of Bad Trip (2021)

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

As you enjoy the movie’s gleeful outrageousness, take a moment to appreciate the strategic sophistication of some of these bits…

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Review of Senior Moment (2021)

By Zaki Hasan (247) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Mar 2021

The best thing you can say about this “Moment” is that, at a breezy 92 minutes, it’s a brief one…

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Review of Nobody (2021)

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

In the Taken movies, the hilarity of mild-mannered Neeson going on a family vacation with hand grenades in his suitcase was never acknowledged,…

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Review of The Courier (2020)

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

Tom O’Connor’s script hits all the right notes, and Dominic Cooke’s direction brings out unspoken subtleties of the characters and their…

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