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Review of Iris (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Jan 2016

Although mostly a loose and unchallenging portrait, Iris is of value to the documentary field if only for taking a stand, however casual, against…

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Review of A Girl Like Her (2012)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Well-intentioned but belabored, Weber's documentary conceit ultimately saps the story of its truthfulness and is therefore self-defeating…

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Review of Felix and Meira (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

There's an inevitability to the proceedings which turns out to be not so inevitable after all, particularly in the final act, when the seemingly…

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Review of Ned Rifle (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

It's as close to an adding-up as can be expected from any thrifty trilogy spread out over three decades, but surely a testament to enduring…

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Review of Home (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Not only is the hero a smart, brave 7th-grade girl but she's also an immigrant from Barbados, and a self-described nerd who got an A in geometry…

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Review of 3 Hearts (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Its scenery is attractive, its camera moves crisp, but the story itself remains lazily elliptical and contrived…

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Review of Welcome to New York (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Thankfully, the more interesting drama of the aftermath is intact, including Jacqueline Bisset's performance as Devereaux's wife, Simone, channeling…

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Review of Girlhood (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

[Marieme] has a long road into the seemingly inescapable marginalization of poor young black women ahead of her…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Even allowing that Blanchett wrings a wee bit of actual pathos from the added backstory of her character's bitterness, these performances,…

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Review of White God (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Reads as a stylized conceit, undercut by too many little moments when performances, from human and canine alike, don't truthfully express what…

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Review of Apartment Troubles (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Prediger and Weixler are clearly talented, and hopefully have much more cohesive (and funny) work ahead of them…

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Review of A Girl Like Her (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Well-intentioned but belabored, Weber's documentary conceit ultimately saps the story of its truthfulness and is therefore self-defeating…

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Review of An Honest Liar (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

An Honest Liar does entertainingly allow that for our peculiar species, true self-awareness sometimes requires a little self-deception…

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Review of Lost and Love (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

There's no way to make material like this light or funny, but Lost and Love is particularly bleak…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Even allowing that Blanchett wrings a wee bit of actual pathos from the added backstory of her character's bitterness, these performances,…

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Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

It all boils down to Kikuchi's mesmerizing performance as the wounded, desperate Kumiko…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Not only is the hero a smart, brave 7th-grade girl but she's also an immigrant from Barbados, and a self-described nerd who got an A in geometry…

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Review of Danny Collins (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

This lost-letter episode actually happened to British folk musician Steve Tilston - who seems more grounded, and more interesting, than the…

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Review of '71 (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

He's a passive hero, mostly getting buffeted along by events and people beyond his control…

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Review of The Gunman (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 01 Jan 2016

Trinca fares the worst in this dour dudes' club, with Penn even seeming to hog all the gratuitous waist-up nudity; even in a bedroom scene…

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