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In ‘The Sound of Silence,’ a loner savant takes his tuning forks to New York.
September 25, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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Nerveless astronaut (Brad Pitt) confronts a distant father in ‘Ad Astra.’
September 18, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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‘Ms. Purple’ showcases the power of pre-production, San Jose’s Tiffany Chu.
September 18, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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The gang reunites for a head-scratcher of a sequel in Stephen King’s ‘It, Chapter 2.’
September 11, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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‘The Goldfinch’ is an engrossing but never convincing adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel of grief and art.
September 11, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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Amazon streaming series, ‘The Boys,’ imagines a bizzarro Justice League.
September 4, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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A pallid remake performs a gender switch, but it’s no use.
September 4, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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‘The Nightingale’ sometimes soars, but is brought low by sadism, violence.
August 28, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy screens at Pruneyard Cinemas labor day weekend.
August 28, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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In ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon,’ two fugitives buddy-up for a ‘Huckleberry Finn’-style adventure.
August 14, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ delivers classic horror and nostalgia.
August 14, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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'Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood,' not Woodstock, turns out to be the 1969 nostalgia item.
August 7, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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‘The Great Hack’ explores how the power of suggestion swung voters in 2016.
August 7, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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Friendship and flamethrowers abound in ‘Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood.’
July 31, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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In ‘Sword of Trust,’ a pawn shop owner is sucked into a vast Deep State conspiracy by a confederacy of dunces.
July 24, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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An all-female yacht crew battles sexism on the high seas in ‘Maiden.’
July 24, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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‘What She Said,’ a documentary on film critic Pauline Kael, plays at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in Palo Alto.
July 17, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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‘Hereditary’ director Ari Aster produces a worthy, and terrifying, encore with ‘Midsommar.’
July 10, 2019 by Kael B. Austria
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In ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco,’ a homeless dreamer tries to capture a castle.
July 10, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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In ‘Yesterday,’ the collected works of The Beatles hit a hapless small-town guitarist like a meteor.
July 3, 2019 by Richard von Busack
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