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Screen Grabs: Arab Film Fest blossoms with legendary divas and political intrigue

Plus: 'Wild Horse 9' trots mildly through US skullduggery; 'Littermates' and 'New Group' behave abnormally
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‘What would the Germans think?’: Paweł Pawlikowski takes on a ‘sacred beast’

In 'Fatherland,' director dramatizes Thomas Mann's fraught 1949 journey through fresh Cold War divide.
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Ficks’ Picks: 9 movies worth all the hype from New York Film Festival

Why 'Fjord' deserved the Palme d'Or, the cinematic embrace of '9 Temples to Heaven,' and a double dose of South Korea's Hong Sang-soo.
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‘Tis the season for big screams-on-screens action

Indonesian prison horror, animated 'Weird Kidz,' poodle breeding runs amok—but the biggest terror may be the early Xmas movies.
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Bloodsuckers ran amok at International Vampire Film Festival

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Garlic from Gilroy, plastic-fanged goths, spooky films from all over the world: Balboa Theater gave vamp fans plenty to sink their teeth into.
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Screen Grabs: SF Latino Film Fest finds a happy place in heavy times

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Plus: Horny fairy tale triumph 'Wicker,' powerful immigrant doc 'One in a Million,' Cannes-winner 'Fjord,' more new movies
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Movie Reviews

Screen Grabs: ‘NAZA’ doc chillingly excoriates Israel’s killing machine

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Plus: Four-hour 'Musk' DOGE-walks the would-be tech emperor, and Elizabeth Holmes gets twisty in 'You Can See Everything'
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Screen Grabs: Green and UN film fests land at a raw moment for humanity

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Plus: A feast of global vampire flicks, a revamped return of 'The Devils,' 'Deathgasm II: Goremaggedeon,' more movies
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Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest blows in with wild weddings, sand thieves, ghost schools

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Plus: 'NAZA' and 'The Social Reckoning' hit local screens, Mahershala Ali goes gonzo, 'Never After Dark' chills, more
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Bea Arthur really did do everything except porn

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Intimate new doc reviews lauded comedic actor's long career with a spicy, never-seen-before interview.
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In Sean Ono Lennon’s new doc, high fashion clashes with business lows

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At Mill Valley Film Fest, 'threeASFOUR: Full Circle' asks how artists' visions can stay commercially viable.
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Screen Grabs: Starry floodgates open at Mill Valley Film Fest 49

Dennis Harvey -
Oscar bait, celeb sightings, and some real gems. Plus: Tsui Hark flabbers gasts, Joan Crawford's Hag-stravaganza, more movies
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Screen Grabs: Local auteur JP Allen stays offbeat, indie, and frisky

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Plus: Brazilian Film Fest, Another Other Cinema oddity, an ode to concrete, 'Viktor' in Ukraine, 'Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!'
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‘Lost’ films seen through fresh eyes at Re:Vision Fest

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A fascinating new showcase of restored and rediscovered movies, from 'My Name Ain't Suzie' to 'Lepers & Sex.'
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Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Artists’ Television Access

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Find the most experimental, personal, and weirdest art in the city in this passionately incendiary Valencia Street storefront.
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Screen Grabs: Who doesn’t love a bear in a hot tub?

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Critter Fest's got claws. Plus: Ethan Hawke's 'Weight,' 'Body Heat' steams again, Barbara Hammer and Larry Reed fêted, more movies
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Fall Film Preview: Flicks you can’t miss, from starry fests to hot local docs

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Revived werewolves, Golden Gate Park trauma, a bitter Christmas, a social reckoning—and, of course, 'Bears in Hot Tubs'
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Screen Grabs: Has the cinematic fantastical become banal?

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Sci-fi overload in 'Hope.' Plus: A lost Joan Crawford, 'Twin Peaks' marathon, unnerving 'Militia,' topless 'Gandahar,' more big screen thrills
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Ficks’ Picks guide to CROSSROADS fest’s eerie experiments, fresh local voices

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SF Cinematheque's annual avant-garde bonanza is haunted by graveyard perversions, pole dance ruminations, spooky homes.
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