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Movie Reviews

Screen Grabs: Emma Stone is an alien—or not?—in ‘Bugonia’

Plus: Jafar Panahi's latest Iranian moral thriller, Yoav Potash documents Jewish erasure in Poland, more movies
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Screen Grabs: East LA guerrilla artists fire up SF Latino Film Fest

Plus: Green Film Fest dives into rainforest resistance, melting memories, brown bear kerfuffles, train dreams, more
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Screen Grabs: UN Film Fest brings human rights ‘Messages for the Future’

Plus: 'Urchin' and 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' take on prickly personalities in surprisingly engaging ways.
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Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest reaches ‘Beyond Bollywood’ for thrills

Plus: Mexican terror in 'Noche Oscura,' bittersweet SF nostalgia in 'Fairyland,' dark fantasy 'Ice Tower,' Orwell on the line, more movies
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Screen Grabs: The Big Kahuna of local fall film fests arrives

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Plus: J. Hoberman haunts Beat paths, classic Westerns on the big screen, a queer Japanese epic, new releases, more
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Screen Grabs: ‘One Battle After Another’ tests our moment’s wild waters

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Paul Thomas Anderson delivers radical leftists terrorists, fascist invasions, Leonardo in a man-bun. Plus: A flimsy 'Him'
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Screen Grabs: Blasting off with Jordan Belson’s mind-expanding cinema

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Plus: 'Cannes for dirtbags' Scumdance Fest, Emma Thompson on thin ice, and a 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' love letter.
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Screen Grabs: Red Sonja rides again

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Plus: IMAX 'Sign O' the Times' shows off Prince's sexy silhouettes, and social media celebrity thriller 'Lurker' defies expectations.
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Ficks’ Picks: Diving into CROSSROADS Fest’s river of experimental celluloid

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SF Cinematheque showcases Japanese classics, Day-Glo rock formations, Inuit lichen-based developers.
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Screen Grabs: Are we not doc’ed? We are Devo!

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Plus: A harrowing bulletin from Sudan, Ron Howard's missed 'Eden,' Tsui Hark's slapstick Hong Kong caper, more movies
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Screen Grabs: A New Taiwanese Cinema giant comes to the Bay

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Plus: BLUSH PornFilmFest, Robert Reich's 'Last Class,' danger at a Ukrainian zoo, quirky 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' more movies.
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Screen Grabs: Singular artist Meredith Monk documented ‘In Pieces’

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Plus: A comprehensive bio of singer Jeff Buckley, Kerouac's 'On the Road' refracted... and who has the right to die?
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Screen Grabs: Brutality on the ground in ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’

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Plus: monumental moments in 'Architecton,' CatVideoFest returns, twisted thriller 'Cloud,' and Pete Davidson fumbles 'Home'
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Screen Grabs: The neurotic summer bondage rom-com you’ve been pining for

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Plus: Deadly blasts from the past in 'Shoshana' and 'El,' Lithuanian peril in 'Toxic,' Albanian corruption in 'Waterdrop,' more new movies.
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Screen Grabs: The Apple doesn’t fall far from the screen

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A giant theater returns. Plus: The Zombies, 'Fucktoys,' a Rhodesian childhood memoir, a fantastic migrant saga, more movies
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Hot-mess bisexuals, Orthodox blackmail, Daveed Diggs: SF Jewish Film Fest dives in

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45th edition foregrounds comedy and conflict, kicking off with 'Coexistence, My Ass,' and playing throughout SF and East Bay
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Screen Grabs: Truth, justice, and… something something

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'Sovereign' insurrection, 'Underground Orange' rebellion, a swarm of Swedish auteurs, Garbage Pail Kids, more movies
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Screen Grabs: Caught up in the raptors, again

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'Jurassic' holiday weekend kicks. Plus: Thomas Kinkaide's secrets, Fraenkel Film Fest, Bill Gunn and Mikio Naruse retrospectives, more.
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CAAMFest 2025 spotlights ‘Boat People,’ ‘Yellowface,’ ‘Chinatown Cha Cha’

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Screen dives also fête the maker of the first ever feature film by and about Asian Americans, and investigate Chinatown evictions.
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