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Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Aug 2017

A serious contender for the best film of 2017, the only way to watch Dave McCary's Brigsby Bear is the way it was made: with a completely open heart…

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Review of Person to Person (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Aug 2017

Person to Person's performances are engaging throughout. It even earns its end-titles dance party, which is something else you don't see every day…

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Review of Maurice (1987)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 26 Jul 2017

It's as handsomely mounted as any of its more beloved brethren, especially in a shiny new 4k restoration, but it's no mystery why it was largely…

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Review of Landline (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 26 Jul 2017

Chances are, we'll being seeing more indie films like Gillian Robespierre's Landline set in the pre-smartphone-and-social-media era…

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Review of Landline (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 26 Jul 2017

Chances are, we'll being seeing more indie films like Gillian Robespierre's Landline set in the pre-smartphone-and-social-media era…

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Review of Moscow Never Sleeps (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 13 Jul 2017

The picture resembles the recent 100 Streets, though it could have used some of that film's unabashed soapiness…

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Review of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 13 Jul 2017

The town's history would be interesting even if not for the films that were buried there, but that particular motherlode of frozen motion pictures…

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Review of Moka (2016)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 28 Jun 2017

Frédéric Mermoud's Moka is a revenge potboiler that never quite boils while you're watching it…

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Review of The Journey (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 28 Jun 2017

For viewing pleasure, it's hard to beat the verbal sparring between the avuncular Meaney and a more-Wormtail-than-Wormtail Spall…

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Review of The Journey (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 28 Jun 2017

For viewing pleasure, it's hard to beat the verbal sparring between the avuncular Meaney and a more-Wormtail-than-Wormtail Spall…

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Review of Walking Distance (2015)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Jun 2017

While there there's a lot of hugging along the way, damn if every hug isn't earned…

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Review of The Bad Batch (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Jun 2017

Although Ana Lily Amirpour's new The Bad Batch has much higher production values, her A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a tough act to follow,…

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Review of Manifesto (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 21 Jun 2017

Cate Blanchett plays 13 unconnected characters in wildly disparate situations who shout, whisper, and otherwise recite both famous and not-so-famous…

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Review of The Hero (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 14 Jun 2017

The well-worn plot is ultimately not as important as the simpler, moment-to-moment pleasures of hanging out with Elliott…

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Review of Past Life (2016)

By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Jun 2017

[Sephi] projects a formidable sense of determination…

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Review of Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 07 Jun 2017

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail works as both a true-life legal thriller and a portrait of a tight-knit community under a tone-deaf siege…

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Review of Churchill (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 30 May 2017

In its study of a famously tubby alpha male and how his wife helped him through one of the most difficult parts of his career, Churchill has…

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Review of Prevenge (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 18 May 2017

It still has the spirit of a Wright production, and that's a standard to which all violent comedies should aspire…

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Review of Radio Dreams (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 18 May 2017

One of the more touching of [the] stories finds poetry in the fact that you're never more than 20 minutes from water in this town. (Hunh.)…

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Review of Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia (2017)

By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 18 May 2017

Lieberman looks at the broader picture of how it happened and how the current generation of Cambodians move past their parents' lingering trauma…

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