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Film Reviews

Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.

Brett Pardy / February 21, 2020

Deceptive Nostalgia: Patricio Guzmán’s Cordillera of Dreams

Documentarian Patricio Guzmán complete his trilogy contrasting the beauty of Chile’s landscapes with the horror of its recent political history by focusing on the deceptively unchanging Andes cordillera.

Alex Heeney / February 18, 2020

Mostly British Film Festival returns to SF for 2020

The 2020 Mostly British Film Festival kicked off last weekend in San Francisco with great films from the UK and beyond, including The Delinquent Season, Hearts and Bones, and Sorry We Missed You.

Aggie, Catherine Gund, Agnes Gund film

Orla Smith / February 5, 2020

Sundance ’20 review: Aggie is a documentary about allyship

Catherine Gund’s Aggie is both a celebration of an extraordinary woman, and a call to arms for the viewer to think about how they too can enact change.

Amulet, Romola Garai, Alec Secareanu, Carla Juri

Orla Smith / February 3, 2020

Sundance ’20 review: Romola Garai’s Amulet

Gothic horror Amulet is a promising directorial debut from actress Romola Garai, but the screenplay is too ambitious for its own good.

Just Mercy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Les Miserables 2019, Ladj Ly

Orla Smith / February 1, 2020

Les Misérables and Just Mercy use classic texts to explore systemic racism

Rather than positioning Les Misérables and Just Mercy as retellings, Ladj Ly and Destin Daniel Cretton engage with modern France’s and America’s relationships to classic texts.

Alex Heeney / January 29, 2020

Sundance Review: Charter is psychologically complex

Amanda Kernell’s second feature, Charter, toys with the reliability of the protagonist’s perspective, who is herself uncertain, in this psychologically complex study of a broken family.

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