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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 26 Oct 2016

While The Handmaiden is an empirically gorgeous movie no matter what's happening on screen, it also has no business being two-and-a-half hours…

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Review of Christine (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 19 Oct 2016

In addition to being a terrific portrait of crippling social anxieties, Christine is a portrait of a bygone era that in many ways looks the…

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Review of Shin Godzilla (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 12 Oct 2016

There's one good thing that comes from the occasional American Godzilla film: They get Toho to dust off the property and do it right…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Oct 2016

There are legitimate terrors here -- legitimate because, as any bleary-eyed parent will verify, they come from a real and terrible place…

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Review of Girl Asleep (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Oct 2016

Rosemary Myers' wonderful Girl Asleep is a modern fairy tale -- if a story set in the 1970s can qualify as modern…

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Review of Danny Says (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 27 Sep 2016

It's not that there isn't the germ of an interesting history lesson in Fields' life, and its swell that he's still alive to tell his stories,…

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Review of Cameraperson (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 27 Sep 2016

The challenging, deeply artistic Cameraperson is also exactly that kind of documentary that would be appropriate for a festival celebrating…

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Review of Spa Night (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 27 Sep 2016

Coming out as queer is always a difficult process, as is making an interesting movie about coming out in 2016, but Andrew Ahn's meditative…

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Review of The Lovers and the Despot (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 27 Sep 2016

Ross Adam and Robert Cannan's fascinating documentary The Lovers and the Despot recounts a political story that would be unbelievable if weren't true…

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Review of Goat (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Sep 2016

Andrew Neel's Goat wants to be a shocking exposé of fraternity hazing, but it undercuts itself at every step…

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Review of Operation Avalanche (2016)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Sep 2016

The lack of narrative momentum here owes something to the mumblecore films of a decade ago, and Operation Avalanche provides all the evidence…

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Review of Kampai! For the Love of Sake (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Sep 2016

Lacks the visceral tastiness often found in other foodie documentaries…

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Review of Max Rose (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 14 Sep 2016

The plodding, maudlin Max Rose's best moments rely heavily on the audience's familiarity with Jerry's persona, and while it's great to see…

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Review of For the Love of Spock (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Sep 2016

Adam traces his tumultuous personal relationship with his father along with his father's tumultuous career, showing how Spock's becoming a…

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Review of Other People (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Sep 2016

Hopefully, Shannon's performance in Other People will be an inspiration to other actors…

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Review of Kicks (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Sep 2016

Justin Tipping's Kicks is a promising, if sometimes overly arty, debut…

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Review of Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Sep 2016

If they have the right to engage in intellectual dishonesty, then you have the right to not pay to see Author: The JT LeRoy Story, or to buy…

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Review of Older Than Ireland (2015)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for SF Weekly (560) on 31 Aug 2016

This unsentimental scene quietly illustrates the progression of growing old as an exquisite kind of tedium, a purgatory before what comes next…

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Review of Yoga Hosers (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 31 Aug 2016

Yoga Hosers takes some potshots at critics, but that's fair: Critics really are the worst…

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Review of The Hollars (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 31 Aug 2016

No new storytelling ground is broken in the charming The Hollars, but it doesn't need to be. The core cast always feels credible as a family…

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