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Review of Truth (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Oct 2015

The picture belongs to Cate Blanchett's Mary Mapes, as she endures a very public scrutiny of both her gender and her politics, particularly…

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Review of Experimenter (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Oct 2015

Indeed,Experimenter often feels like an Errol Morris documentary, and though it never quite answers why humans are capable of such inhumanity…

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Review of Truth (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Oct 2015

The picture belongs to Cate Blanchett's Mary Mapes, as she endures a very public scrutiny of both her gender and her politics, particularly…

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Review of Beasts of No Nation (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 14 Oct 2015

For all its brutality, darkness, and ruminations about how a higher power can allow such things to happen, Beasts of No Nation is also leavened…

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Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Oct 2015

Labyrinth of Lies is fascinating enough in its procedural aspect -- including many scenes in the American-run SS records rooms -- even as it…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Oct 2015

Robert Zemeckis's The Walk is as breathtaking as you'd hope a film about a man walking on a wire between the World Trade Center Towers to be…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Sep 2015

For a faraway no-man's land, this is one inviting world…

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Review of The Keeping Room (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Sep 2015

The Keeping Room is dark and violent and ends on an ambiguous note, but so did the Civil War and, arguably, the era of Westerns…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Sep 2015

For a faraway no-man's land, this is one inviting world…

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Review of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Sep 2015

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution covers all the important bases, while also suggesting other places for future documentarians to go…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Sep 2015

Villeneuve's film, written by Taylor Sheridan, pays off its suspense with fierce violence, and seems therefore sensational; it can't quite…

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Review of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 23 Sep 2015

Depressing, grim, dark, and compulsively watchable…

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Review of Coming Home (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Sep 2015

For all its big emotions, the low-key Coming Home is a less a melodrama than a mellow drama…

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Review of The New Girlfriend (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Sep 2015

Leave it to the French to get transgender representation (mostly) right…

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Review of Envy (2001)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Sep 2015

Leave it to the French to get transgender representation (mostly) right…

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Review of Sleeping with Other People (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 16 Sep 2015

Ye olde let's-try-a-platonic-relationship trope gets a dirty-talking update…

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Review of Listening (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 09 Sep 2015

Meditation as a countermeasure against a sinister mind-control conspiracy is a novel idea; too bad it's wedged into a rickety framework of…

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Review of Rosenwald (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 09 Sep 2015

Rosenwald does veer into hagiography, and there's a sense his darker moments are glossed over, but the good works he did should be celebrated,…

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Review of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Sep 2015

Gibney's portrait is dense with telling biographical detail. And it is undeniably fascinating to look back on how this life progressed…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 Aug 2015

Say this for Disney-Pixar, it makes some pretty great entertainment out of processing formative experiences…

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