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The Sunset Limited (2011) 68% EDIT “Sometimes filming a stage play does not work for television. That watching it as a television series asks of it things the play can not deliver (and is not supposed to deliver). Hence... The Sunset Limited doesn't work.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 6, 2020 Full Review Cinema Verite (2011) 61% EDIT “In Cinema Verite, 90 minutes might not do justice to the historical impact of An American Family. But it makes you wish there were 90 more minutes to the story, which is saying something.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 3, 2020 Full Review 61* (2001) 86% 3/4 EDIT “The beauty of 61, the Billy Crystal film for HBO, is that it early on makes a few dangerous missteps and corrects them quickly, all the while benefiting from a story as riveting and freshly modern as any sports story ever.” – San Francisco Chronicle Mar 25, 2020 Full Review Salem's Lot (2004) 69% EDIT “The first five minutes of Salem's Lot are great. Well, four minutes. And then Lowe's voice-over kicks in, which essentially starts the poison drip. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 16, 2020 Full Review Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein (2019) 89% EDIT “In the end, all that matters is that the rules of old television are broken. There is no form. Here, watch this thing we did, or not. There's something oddly likeable about that.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jul 17, 2019 Full Review Brexit (2019) 80% EDIT “For Americans, even if that story isn't our own, it's absolutely relatable and that makes it interesting.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 16, 2019 Full Review Sucker Free City (2004) 4/4 EDIT “A wholly original, restlessly real take on San Francisco gang life... Sucker Free City has the kind of non-Hollywood take on urban trouble that proudly makes it cousin to The Wire on HBO, and there really isn't any higher praise than that.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 14, 2018 Full Review A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All (2008) 3/4 EDIT “All told, it's not a classic, but there are worse ways to spend an hour (and for a good cause, maybe).” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 13, 2018 Full Review The Tenth Inning (2010) 3/4 EDIT “The beauty, Burns and Novick seem to be saying here, is that the game is far bigger than any player. And it will endure.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 13, 2018 Full Review 24: Redemption (2008) 80% 2/4 EDIT “But playing off the fears of Sept. 11, 2001, is, in 2008, played out. Jack Bauer as Superman, or even Underdog, is tired.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 13, 2018 Full Review Too Big to Fail (2011) 77% EDIT “In a cast full of beautifully minimalist performances from superb actors, William Hurt gets to remind viewers who might have otherwise forgot just how great he can be.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 25, 2018 Full Review The Witness for the Prosecution (2016) 100% EDIT “Let's just say that Agatha Christie's The Witness for the Prosecution isn't like anything you'd expect as it adds a layer of psychological hopelessness to the whodunit -- nor is it anything you should miss.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 1, 2017 Full Review The Dresser (2015) 100% EDIT “It's delightful and winning, both sad and funny and touching on so many levels. Welcome this little gem into your arms if you can.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 31, 2016 Full Review Peter Pan Live! (2014) 56% EDIT “It was a night where Williams and Walken, at disparate ends of the live performance, gave a lot to their roles and to the success of the night.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 5, 2014 Full Review Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever (2014) 27% EDIT “The Christmas miracle of this movie is that Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever isn't the worst Christmas movie ever.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 1, 2014 Full Review The Normal Heart (2014) 94% EDIT “The Normal Heart manages to work both sides of the issue - the anger at inaction and those complicit in turning a blind eye, and the personal toll the disease took.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 22, 2014 Full Review The Challenger Disaster (2013) 92% EDIT “Credit the Science Channel with figuring out that this story had the kind of smarts and scientific elements at its core to be a great fit and perfect fodder for its foray into scripted material.” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 18, 2013 Full Review Mockingbird Lane (2012) 60% EDIT “Not particularly scary, not particularly funny, this little-pilot-lost doesn't quite get there, despite an impressive pedigree.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 14, 2013 Full Review Phil Spector (2013) 51% EDIT “Mamet will succeed in planting doubt (reasonable or not) in viewers' minds in this account of the murder trial of the larger-than-life Spector, brilliantly embodied by Pacino.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 22, 2013 Full Review SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden (2012) 50% EDIT “A movie that feels like a documentary at times, a cheesy docudrama at others and some kind of slapped-together film that wants to be taken seriously as well.” – The Hollywood Reporter Oct 30, 2012 Full Review Game Change (2012) 67% EDIT “It's a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at politics - as long as you're a Democrat.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 3, 2012 Full Review Recount (2008) 78% 3/4 EDIT “It's impossible to overstate the excellent casting here.” – San Francisco Chronicle May 27, 2008 Full Review Born Rich (2003) 4/4 EDIT “It's [Johnson's] first film (it shows), but he strikes gold by getting the kind of access to his peers no one else could.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 15, 2004 Full Review The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) 64% 4/4 EDIT “84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare. It's also, clearly, great fun.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jul 3, 2002 Full Review Shot in the Heart (2001) 83% 4/4 EDIT “Only a writer as talented as Mikal Gilmore could tell a story that punches you in the gut about every five seconds and yet leaves you hoping for more.” – San Francisco Chronicle Mar 27, 2002 Full Review
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