By Daniel Barnes My complete ballot for the 2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awards: BEST PICTURE Hard Truths Anora Flow Touch Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga BEST DIRECTOR Sean Baker, Anora Mike Leigh, Hard Truths Matteo Garrone, Io Capitano George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max […]
By Daniel Barnes Below is my complete ballot for the 2021 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awards. BEST FILMS OF 2021 Licorice Pizza The Power of the Dog Parallel Mothers The French Dispatch Annette BEST DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza Jane Campion, The Power of the […]
Mogul Mowgli (2021; Bassam Tariq) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opening today in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Rafael. “Where I’m going, don’t need love.” This Riz Ahmed vehicle contains enough echoes of Sound of Metal that you could make it into a drinking game. Take a shot every […]
The Night House (2021; David Bruckner) GRADE: C By Daniel Barnes *Opening today in wide release. “Do you guys believe in ghosts?” I can’t stand what I call “noise horror” movies, so take the rest of this with as many grains of salt as you need. By noise […]
Annette (2021; Leos Carax) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes *Now playing in select theaters; premiering on Amazon Prime on Aug. 20. “So, may we start?” The best film of the year so far. Holy Motors director Carax takes the logical next step with his English-language debut Annette, an anti-ecstatic […]
Nine Days (2021; Edson Oda) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opening today at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. “This has nothing to do with being good or bad.” Accomplished short film and commercial director Oda makes his feature-length debut with this uneven existential fantasy. Winston Duke (Us) gives […]
