Dennis Harvey, Author at 48 hills

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Screen Grabs: Pattinson’s lips aside, ‘The Batman’ proves to be monotonous murk

March 2, 2022

Plus: Flicks that are actually worth your eyeball strain, from a showcase of Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil to 'Huda's Salon'

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Screen Grabs: New films provide visions of the end

February 28, 2022

Plus: Slovakian 'Servants' is stunning—our critic's favorite movie of the year so far.

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Screen Grabs: Coppola revives ‘Godfather’—and Dinklage delivers in ‘Cyrano’

February 24, 2022

Exactly 50 years ago this February 25, The Godfather was released. It was an adaptation of a pulpy best-seller that no one expected much...

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Screen Grabs: A ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’… of influencers?

February 21, 2022

Plus: Two outrageous retro classics and three indie horrors that caught our eye (if not our hearts)

Movies

Screen Grabs: Freedom, and other compromised concepts

February 17, 2022

Liberation and constraint, from Belgian playgrounds and the back alleys of Chad to Ted Kaczynski's paranoid manifesto.

Movies

Screen Grabs: From silents to Noise Pop, setting old scores and new

February 15, 2022

Hendrix in Maui, Chaplin at the Paramount, Aelita the Queen of Mars, Gwar, and more movies mix with music.

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Screen Grabs: Women at the center—coming of age, taking revenge

February 10, 2022

'The Sky is Everywhere,' 'The Worst Person in the World,' and 'Catch the Fair One' unfold in very different ways.

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Screen Grabs: Embarcadero Center Cinema is gone, but there are revivals aplenty

February 7, 2022

Mourning another rep house gone, and looking forward to old school movies—brilliant, romantic, cheesy, and beastly.

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Screen Grabs: ‘Who We Are’ lays out just how much racial justice has stalled

February 2, 2022

Plus: Poetic 'Why is We Americans,' listless 'Sundown,' rousing 'The Conductor'—and 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,' too.

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Screen Grabs: Indiefest adds thematic heft to the usual wild fun

February 1, 2022

Black rage, migrant mystery, and sex-trafficking revenge join cat daddies, Airsteam trailers, and 'Mother Schnuckers' this year.

Dennis Harvey

Screen Grabs: Pattinson’s lips aside, ‘The Batman’ proves to be monotonous murk

Screen Grabs: New films provide visions of the end

Screen Grabs: Coppola revives ‘Godfather’—and Dinklage delivers in ‘Cyrano’

Screen Grabs: A ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’… of influencers?

Screen Grabs: Freedom, and other compromised concepts

Screen Grabs: From silents to Noise Pop, setting old scores and new

Screen Grabs: Women at the center—coming of age, taking revenge

Screen Grabs: Embarcadero Center Cinema is gone, but there are revivals aplenty

Screen Grabs: ‘Who We Are’ lays out just how much racial justice has stalled

Screen Grabs: Indiefest adds thematic heft to the usual wild fun

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