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Review of Dark Horse (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 11 May 2016

The unquestionably uplifting Dark Horse is halfway to being a narrative film as it is, re-creating many scenes both profoundly emotional and…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 11 May 2016

One of the two very smart things that the film does is to keep the original 1975 setting, as the story would have been altered far too much…

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Review of Dough (2015)

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

Jonathan Pryce is always great, but Jerome Holder is a real find, displaying a charisma reminiscent of the similarly unknown John Boyega in…

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Review of Francofonia (2015)

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

What's most impressive is the access Sokurov and his camera got to the great works of the Louvre, thus allowing a closer look than we're ever…

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Review of Valley of Love (2015)

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

Exactly what Valley of Love is setting out to accomplish is unclear, but anything that gets Isabelle Huppert back on American screens is a good thing…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

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

Much like its underserved title characters, the picture never fulfills its potential…

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Review of The Winding Stream (2014)

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

Beth Harrington's lovely documentary The Winding Stream traces the history of the original Carter Family singers -- Maybelle Carter, her cousin…

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Review of The First Monday in May (2016)

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

Call it superficial, but I call it irrefutable: Life is a runway, and Andrew Rossi's documentary The FirstMonday in Maymakes a strong case…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

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

Cheadle is a delight to watch, and by and large, Miles Ahead can be described as his Miles Davis fan fiction…

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Review of Sweet Bean (2015)

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

The meditative Sweet Bean is veteran director Kawase's first film to receive domestic theatrical distribution -- probably because arthouse…

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Review of Marguerite (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Mar 2016

Xavier Giannoli's 127-minute comedy Marguerite would have worked like gangbusters at a zippy 90 minutes, but it's a pleasant enough comedy-of-manners…

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Review of Take Me to the River (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Mar 2016

Take Me to the River is Picnic at Hanging Rock-level cagey about its central mysteries, and while many of its characters know what happened…

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Review of I Saw the Light (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Mar 2016

I Saw the Light is pretty, slick, and empty -- three words that don't describe its subject…

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Review of Krisha (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Mar 2016

Shults does indeed display some giftedness on a visual level, keeping his limited locations interesting with numerous camera tricks and movements…

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Review of Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Mar 2016

It's clearly artificial, but it generates an emotional response. Sergei Eisenstein himself would have approved…

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Review of Creative Control (2016)

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

Creative Control is shot in glorious black-and-white, which always makes New York look better and also complements the vector-graphic aesthetic…

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Review of Trapped (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 17 Mar 2016

Dawn Porter's Trapped is a sobering look at the impact of anti-abortion legislation in the South…

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Review of Knight of Cups (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 10 Mar 2016

Knight of Cups is Malick at his most Malick-y, and it's OK if that's not your thing…

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Review of A Haunting in Cawdor (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 10 Mar 2016

There's potential for a fun horror movie with Phil Wurtzel's A Haunting in Cawdor, but the end result is as uninspired as its title…

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Review of Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 11 Feb 2016

It's in the little moments that Bergman shines, a woman unafraid to follow her own path in both word and deed…

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