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Review of Wild (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

It is another survival story, after all, but an affectingly delicate one…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

The leading man of Jeremy Saulnier's mesmerizing Blue Ruin is not the kind of actor who usually gets to anchor a motion picture, let alone…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

The important thing is that San Fransokyo is everything San Francisco should be…

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Review of The Drop (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

A throwback to the character-driven New York crime films of the 1970s, aided in no small part by being filmed in areas of Brooklyn that don't…

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Review of 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

At this movie's dark heart is the disarming self-awareness and intelligence with which Cave cops to raiding, mythologizing, and cannibalizing…

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Review of Obvious Child (2009)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

Slate erases the boundary between a good comedic performance and a good dramatic one: Her wit is most palpable when expressed verbally, but…

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Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

It's the rare summer spectacle that, tacked-on coda notwithstanding, might actually warrant repeat viewings…

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Review of The Drop (1965)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

A throwback to the character-driven New York crime films of the 1970s, aided in no small part by being filmed in areas of Brooklyn that don't…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

Without the goneness of Philip Seymour Hoffman hanging over it, what would A Most Wanted Man be worth…

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Review of Obvious Child (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

Slate erases the boundary between a good comedic performance and a good dramatic one: Her wit is most palpable when expressed verbally, but…

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Review of The Drop (2006)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 05 Jan 2015

A throwback to the character-driven New York crime films of the 1970s, aided in no small part by being filmed in areas of Brooklyn that don't…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Jan 2015

Couching its commentary in a propulsive pulp tale, it's a genre triumph at once scary, silly, and deceptively sly…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Jan 2015

A bit of a letdown in terms of actual characterization and music appreciation, writer-director Damien Chazelle's film is at least a thrilling…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Jan 2015

The film neuters any potential for the very type of stinging social commentary that was the original series' hallmark…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

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

Maybe only Linklater could do a radical narrative experiment that's also just another low-key slice of life…

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Review of Starred Up (2014)

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

Mackenzie supports his screenwriter's humanitarian intentions by bringing out his actors' best, so it's forgivable that Starred Up is shaped…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

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

Maybe only Linklater could do a radical narrative experiment that's also just another low-key slice of life…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 17 Dec 2014

The most interesting parts of The Battle of the Five Armies wind up being table-setting for The Lord of the Rings (hi, Galadriel!)…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 20 Nov 2014

It all looks exactly like an answer to the question of what would be next from the guy who won an Oscar for the cinematography in Gravity…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 20 Nov 2014

It all looks exactly like an answer to the question of what would be next from the guy who won an Oscar for the cinematography in Gravity…

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