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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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Rose Byrne on the Lynchian winks of ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’

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

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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Score a pass to see Yorgos Lánthimos’ latest, ‘Bugonia’

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Act fast to see the Greek director's latest surreal provocation on Oct. 21, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
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Starry ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ sinks fangs into deep subjects

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Director Bill Condon and star Toniatiuh on the movie musical's entanglement with gender and incarceration.
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Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest reaches ‘Beyond Bollywood’ for thrills

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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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Catch a new film about the brutality of sweeps and attacks on the unhoused

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With no love from Hollywood, 'Crushing Wheelchairs' gets two Bay Area screenings
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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: Psychedelic bro love swirls in ‘Lemurian Candidate’

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Plus: Studio 8 Film Festival celebrates work from dearly departed Art Institute, Cheryl Dunye at BAMPFA, more releases.
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Screen Grabs: Witness the incendiary birth of nunsploitation in ‘The Devils’

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Plus: 'The Long Walk' misses a timely chance to diss totalitarianism, and re-release of 'Commune' dives into a back-to-land Californian tale.
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VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

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Screen Grabs: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema beckons cinephile families and al fresco film freaks

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Plus: 'Pools' aims for 'Breakfast Club' during a heatwave, Cocteau and Andersson classics take BAMPFA.
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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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5 times Denzel’s character name tipped us off to greatness

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From Easy Rawlins to Whip Whitaker, the 'Highest 2 Lowest' actor has transcended what could have been two-dimensional roles.
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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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