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Review of Dear Comrades! (2020)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

Setting political movies in the past is an easy, usually safe way to signal virtue…

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Review of The Father (2020)

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

Hopkins makes himself transparent. He lets us see both who this man was and what he is now…

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Review of A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

Using movie clips, animation and news footage, Ascher creates his own alternate universe in A Glitch in the Matrix and explores phenomena such…

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Review of Bliss (2021)

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

Ultimately, no matter what angle you see Bliss from, the story converges on a choice and a question: Which world do you choose to live in…

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Review of I Care a Lot (2021)

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

I Care a Lot is notable for its colorful supporting and featured roles — Chris Messina as a mob lawyer, Peter Dinklage as a Russian mobster…

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Review of Falling (2021)

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

As Baby Boomers continue to dominate the culture through sheer numbers, you can expect more movies about demented parents…

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Review of Crisis (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

It’s a more modest Traffic in several ways, adequate at what it tries to say about this dirty business but light on the wider scope of the…

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Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

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

Judas and the Black Messiah quietly announces its modern relevance by presenting as sophisticated a depiction of systemic racism as you could…

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Review of The World to Come (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

Despite the terrific set design in The World to Come, the characters don’t feel at home in it; they do very little farm work, for example…

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Review of Little Fish (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

This day-after-tomorrow fantasy, made before anybody had even heard of COVID-19, is touchingly romantic and emotionally credible…

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Review of Life in a Day 2020 (2021)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

There are so many rich, colorful scenes that it’s a worthy watch just as an ethnographic record of our planet in a moment of time…

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Review of The Mauritanian (2021)

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

Sure, The Mauritanian is better than staring at metal bars and better than two hours of rigorous legal preparation. But it isn’t better by much…

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Review of Crisis (2021)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

It’s a more modest Traffic in several ways, adequate at what it tries to say about this dirty business but light on the wider scope of the…

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Review of Cherry (2021)

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

Cherry is like three different movies in one: the teen years, the war experience, and then life as a drug addict…

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Review of Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)

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

Things isn't linear, and it isn't all that lively. But it captures the experience of some modern women, and it feels from the heart…

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Review of The Dig (2021)

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

All of it works. All of it holds together, guided by the sure hand of director Simon Stone, who subtly imparts his sense of the story…

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Review of Nomadland (2021)

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

Nomadland is too singular a film to dismiss on technicalities…

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Review of Supernova (2021)

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

Writer-director Harry Macqueen puts the fate of his film on the shoulders of his two leads — Colin Firth as Sam, Stanley Tucci as Tusker…

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Review of Supernova (2020)

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

Writer-director Harry Macqueen puts the fate of his film on the shoulders of his two leads — Colin Firth as Sam, Stanley Tucci as Tusker…

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Review of Malcolm & Marie (2021)

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

In addition to the quality of its dialogue, Levinson’s script is a testament to the value of talking and listening, past the point of discomfort,…

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