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Review of Last Cab to Darwin (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jul 2016

Jeremy Sims' Last Cab to Darwin is a formulaic but still heart-tugging road movie…

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Review of Wiener-Dog (2016)

By Peter Lawrence Kane (3) for SF Weekly (560) on 29 Jun 2016

Few of the rants are as laugh-out-loud funny as, say, Jon Lovitz's in Happiness, but there's plenty of Solondz's signature brand of misanthropy…

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Review of Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 29 Jun 2016

Frank Zappa has always been an acquired taste, and Thorsten Schütte's otherwise terrific documentary Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His…

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Review of Tickled (2016)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for SF Weekly (560) on 22 Jun 2016

The potential for a wider narrative - cyber-harm - gets lost as his focus narrows down to a heavy-handed, as in anvils-for-hands heavy, and…

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Review of The Fits (2016)

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

Anna Rose Holmer's The Fits is the best portrait of female teenage alienation since Eliza Hittman's It Felt Like Love…

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Review of Monkey Kingdom (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 14 Jun 2016

Minor ethical questions do linger... But the higher-level mission here, to engender fascination among young viewers, is well accomplished…

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Review of Gurukulam (2013)

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

The film is less about the hardcore spiritual stuff than the nuts and bolts of daily life and some talking heads about what brought them there,…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 13 Jun 2016

It's fun enough to be appreciated by audiences who aren't already fans of the series…

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Review of Black Souls (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 13 Jun 2016

Souls still feels very inside-baseball, trusting the audience to follow along…

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Review of Beyond the Reach (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 13 Jun 2016

While Léonetti's film is never less than ridiculous, it forgets to also be fun…

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Review of Chevalier (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 08 Jun 2016

It scores extra points for the line I will not retract my panda statement!, which is as funny out-of-context as in…

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Review of Presenting Princess Shaw (2016)

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

Ido Haar's documentary Presenting Princess Shaw is joyous and uplifting, but also blurs the line between documentary and docudrama a great deal…

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Review of The American Side (2016)

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

The American Side never quite adds up to a satisfying experience, but that's made up for by the cavalcade of familiar faces in small parts,…

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Review of The Final Master (2015)

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

The real selling point is the fighting, and if you're a fan of fighting with knives, The Final Master has got you covered…

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Review of ma ma (2015)

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

Even knowing that Ma Ma is intended to be a woman's-weepie in the vein of Douglas Sirk's 1950s melodramas, nearly every storytelling and stylistic…

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Review of Sunset Song (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 25 May 2016

Unfortunately, Agyness Deyn's acting chops aren't quite up to the task of carrying Sunset Song…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 25 May 2016

The timing of Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg's you-are-there documentary Weiner couldn't be better…

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Review of Welcome to Happiness (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 18 May 2016

The three main female characters are little more than caricatures (sexy girlfriend, shrewish authority figure, and flouncy eye candy) who only…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for SF Weekly (560) on 18 May 2016

That these ravishing creatures got paid to not enjoy themselves on film feels like a true act of original sin…

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Review of Being Charlie (2016)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for SF Weekly (560) on 11 May 2016

Being Charlie wants to make one addict's problems at once light and substantial but fails by confusing these two conflicting approaches…

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