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 My submitted ballot for the 2023 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awards: BEST PICTURE The Zone of Interest Monster Killers of the Flower Moon All of Us Strangers The Boy and the Heron BEST DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon Jonathan […]
By Daniel Barnes My submitted ballot for the 2022 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awards: BEST PICTURE Triangle of Sadness The Banshees of Inisherin The Northman Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Blonde BEST DIRECTOR Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness Robert Eggers, The Northman Andrew Dominik, […]
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 […]
