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Review of Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All (2017)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Aug 2017

It’s so uncritical of its subject that it has the unintended effect of undermining its mission, which appears to be recruiting new devotees…

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Review of The Trip to Spain (2017)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Aug 2017

The Trip to Spain, perhaps isn’t quite up to the series’ opener (“The Trip,” 2010), it’s certainly a healthy cut above the second…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Aug 2017

In the end, the whole enterprise comes off as too clever for its own good, a social satire without a clear target…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Aug 2017

Logan Lucky is not a contemptible piece of work. It’s a genuine effort by talented people that never quite comes off…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Aug 2017

Melissa Rosenberg's screenplay is faithful enough to Meyer's soap-operatic inclinations, but I kind of wish it weren't…

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Review of Ingrid Goes West (2017)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Aug 2017

An ideal vehicle for Aubrey Plaza, in that it taps into everything we know she can do and challenges her to do other things that she hasn’t…

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Review of Hancock (2008)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Aug 2017

More intelligent than most summer blockbusters and features at its center a thought-out and committed performance by Will Smith…

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Review of Home on the Range (2004)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Aug 2017

This 76-minute Western tall tale isn't out-and-out bad, but strictly formulaic and an underachievement from the studio that made the dazzling…

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Review of The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Aug 2017

The Nut Job 2 isn’t maddening like “Smurfs 2,” where you continue to hate yourself years later for spending the money…

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Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Aug 2017

There are gotcha jolts that definitely got me, but for each of those, there must be a half-dozen scares telegraphed in very large letters…

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Review of The Glass Castle (2017)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Aug 2017

Still the spectacle of this, of beautiful, sensitive children at the mercy of damaged adults — this is what we take from The Glass Castle…

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Review of The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Aug 2017

The best thing about “Living Boy” is the performance of Cynthia Nixon, who plays Thomas’ emotionally unstable mother…

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Review of Menashe (2017)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Aug 2017

This is Weinstein's first dramatic feature; he's been a documentarian, and that comes through in his ability to show Menashe in the context…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Aug 2017

An impressive effort and an impressive result that opens up a world that most of us have never thought about and renders it with sorrow and vividness…

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Review of Columbus (2017)

By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Aug 2017

The quietly stirring, exquisitely photographed Columbus is an art-house gem that beautifully illuminates not only the architecture of a small…

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Review of False Confessions (2017)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Aug 2017

False Confessions can be admired for its high style and distinct tone, but if you really want to enjoy it, you’ll have to force yourself…

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Review of Annabelle: Creation (2017)

By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Aug 2017

There are “gotcha” jolts that definitely got me, but for each of those, there must be a half-dozen scares telegraphed in very large letters…

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Review of Whose Streets? (2017)

By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Aug 2017

Ultimately, Whose Streets…

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Review of Persepolis (2007)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 Aug 2017

It's striking how much emotion Satrapi is able to convey through blocky drawings…

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Review of Bee Movie (2007)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Aug 2017

Has a few charming moments and a scene or two with legitimate hilarity, but mostly it's just mediocre…

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