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Indiefest electrifies with punk and sci-fi royalty, surreal thrillers, local debuts

Dennis Harvey -
SF Indiefest (Wed/29-February 13) may not look backward a great deal, but when it does, it has to be the right fit for a festival...
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Screen Grabs: Battle of the giant Russian oligarchs

Dennis Harvey -
The big event this week is Friday’s return of Noir City, whose latest annual edition at the Castro we’ve previewed separately here. Among commercial openings...
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Sights set globally, Noir City dives into ‘a bitter little world’

Dennis Harvey -
No longer jailbait, but surely full of other moral and criminal sandtraps for the unwary protagonist, Noir City (Fri/24-February 2 at the Castro Theatre) hits...
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Ficks’ Picks: The best flicks of 2019

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
48 Hills festival movie critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks travels the continent for us checking out the biggest film events. He also hosts the invaluable...
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Screen Grabs: A very contemporary Les Misérables

Dennis Harvey -
This very random week at the movies features two big franchise reboots. Doolittle is from writer-director Stephen Gaghan, previously associated with such very grown-up...
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Screen Grabs: New year, death row

Dennis Harvey -
January is generally considered a dumping ground for unloved movies, squeezed in to fill any space remaining by Christmas and awards-bait major releases still...
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Review: ‘Cats’ is very much like you

Caitlin Donohue -
You've heard of several kinds of cat And my opinion now is that You should need to interpreter to understand our character You've learned enough to take...
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Screen Grabs: Homage to a gorgeous legend + 2019’s best films

Dennis Harvey -
We’ve gotten to the point where icons of the 1960s are now dying off of old age, and last month that number was joined...
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Screen Grabs: The (first world) war on Christmas

Dennis Harvey -
In years past it’s seemed customary for Christmas to bring some shiny presents for moviegoers—a mainstream comedy or two, probably some Disney opus, maybe...
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Screen Grabs: Bombshells, Cats, and Star Wars—must be holiday time

Dennis Harvey -
As we are now single-digit shopping days from Xmas, the really big multiplex presents are arriving, whether they were on your wish list or...

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