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“Birdboy: The Forgotten Children” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

By Daniel Barnes on January 11, 2018

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2017; Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, January 12, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. This dark, bleak, Spanish-language animated fable premiered in 2015. However, it only now makes an American debut thanks to GKIDS, an essential distribution […]

“The Ornithologist” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

By Daniel Barnes on July 5, 2017

The Ornithologist (2017; João Pedro Rodrigues) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, June 7, at the Landmark Clay in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. Un-tethered weirdness for the sake of weirdness from Portuguese writer-director Rodrigues (The Last Time I Saw Macao). The Ornithologist is […]