3 Faces (2019; Dir.: Jafar Panahi) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, March 29, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. 3 Faces is the fourth feature film from Iranian writer-director Jafar Panahi since 2010, the year that the Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced him to house arrest and […]
Birds of Passage (2019; Dir.: Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, March 1, at the Opera Plaza 4 in San Francisco. Embrace of the Serpent director Guerra and first-timer Gallego deliver this strangely static but wholly unexpected and unusual gangster saga, purportedly “inspired […]
Holiday (2019; Dir.: Isabella Eklöf) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, February 15, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. One of the screenwriters of the Oscar-nominated Border, Isabella Eklöf makes a stunning and disturbing directorial debut with Holiday, a sun-kissed travelogue of sexual violence on the Turkish Riviera. Victoria […]
By Daniel Barnes Click the links to read Daniel’s reviews. * = playing in SF Bay Area only OFFICIALLY BUMPED 1) The Favourite 2) Cold War *3) Burning *4) Shoplifters 5) Free Solo 6) Roma 7) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse MIXED-POSITIVE *8) If Beale Street Could Talk 9) […]
By Daniel Barnes Click the links to read Daniel’s reviews. * = playing in SF Bay Area only OFFICIALLY BUMPED 1) The Favourite *2) Cold War *3) Burning *4) Shoplifters *5) Free Solo *6) Roma 7) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse MIXED-POSITIVE 8) If Beale Street Could Talk 9) […]
By Daniel Barnes Click the links to read Daniel’s reviews. * = playing in SF Bay Area only OFFICIALLY BUMPED 1) The Favourite *2) Burning *3) Shoplifters 4) Free Solo *5) Roma 6) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse MIXED-POSITIVE 7) If Beale Street Could Talk *8) Widows 9) Bumblebee […]
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