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Screen Grabs: On the lam with excellent ‘The Secret Agent’

Plus: Harrowing account of Russian press crackdown in 'My Undesirable Friends' and gay rural Indian romance in 'Cactus Pears'
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Screen Grabs: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ rolls onto big screens

Plus: Librarians, feminists, prophets, poets, Plastic Man, Kurosawa, an uncut 'Kill Bill,' and 300-minute 'Castration Movie.'
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Score a free pass to new movie ‘Song Sung Blue’

We've got 20 passes to give away to a preview screening of Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson's new movie—but act fast
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Bravery among the books: ‘The Librarians’ fight censorship

Documentary follows those battling the frenzy to erase LGBTQ-related stories from schools.
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Screen Grabs: Let’s get weird for the holidays at Another Hole in the Head

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Blood-sucking landlords, hilarious hoagies, deadly influencers, bad haircuts: 'Tis the season for the 22nd freak film fest
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Cult actor Patrick Warburton horses around in ‘Zootopia 2’

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The deep-voiced favorite goes from 'Seinfeld' and 'The Tick' to a Fabio-maned mayor in animated sequel.
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Screen Grabs: Delightful ‘Left-Handed Girl’ steals big movie week thunder

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Plus: Weepy 'Hamnet,' convoluted 'Wake Up Dead Man,' a 1969 Ken Jacobs treasure, and more great Lost Landscapes of SF.
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Screen Grabs: A soft spot for ‘Sentimental Value’

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Plus: Edgar Wright and Noah Baumbach's latest, fine 'Rebuilding,' urgent 'Anniversary,' barbed 'Disinvited,' more new movies
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Score a free pass to new movie ‘Hamnet’!

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We've got 20 passes to give away to a preview screening of Chloé Zhao's new movie imagining Shakespeare's world—but act fast!
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Screen Grabs: Transgender Film Fest comes at a powerful moment

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Plus: Reanimated Underground Short Film Fest packs 36 flicks into seven hours, and Colombia on Film celebrates 'resistia en transita.'
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Screen Grabs: Silent Film Fest proffers Gold Rush of gems in new location

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Relocating for now to Orinda Theatre, the essential event still dives into outstanding material with live accompaniment.
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Screen Grabs: Arab Film Fest kicks off with ‘Palestine 36’

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Plus: Doc Stories, Ode to Joy, Gunvor Nelson, Marta Mateus, Rithy Pahn, terrific 'Train Dreams,' misfire 'Nuremberg,' more movies
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Screen Grabs: Halloweek brings the scares, killer clowns and all

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Plus: Spike & Mike's Animation Fest returns, a vivid look at Artsakh, stranger-than-fiction 'Mistress Dispeller,' more movies
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What we saw at the NY Film Fest: Ficks’ Picks of feature films

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Big director names filled up screens, from Richard Linklater and Noah Baumbach to Kathryn Bigelow and Luca Guadagnino.
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What we saw at the NY Film Fest: Ficks’ Picks of experimental gems

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A very meta Romanian 'Dracula', Sharon Lockhart's breathtaking grace, melancholic Georgian questing, more.
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Screen Grabs: Emma Stone is an alien—or not?—in ‘Bugonia’

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Plus: Jafar Panahi's latest Iranian moral thriller, Yoav Potash documents Jewish erasure in Poland, more movies
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Rose Byrne on the Lynchian winks of ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’

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Conan O'Brien, A$AP Rocky, and Christian Slater co-star in Mary Bronstein's ominous tale of motherly burnout.
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Screen Grabs: East LA guerrilla artists fire up SF Latino Film Fest

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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’

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Plus: 'Urchin' and 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' take on prickly personalities in surprisingly engaging ways.
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