Pour one out for halfheartedly pinot-gregious comedy ‘Wine Country’
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Glass after glass is poured, but in a wine cellar’s worth of bad jokes and poor timing, the film never achieves a satisfying buzz.
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Got a question about sex? ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ addresses that and more in new biographical documentary
In full, “Ask Dr. Ruth” is a study in frankness, both in how Dr. Ruth is unabashedly open about her own life experiences and in making discussions around sex accessible to the too-often-repressed public.
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It’s a great day to be a Satanist in documentary ‘Hail Satan?’
The battle for justice comes in many forms for many different communities — this community just prefers its freedom dressed in black and devil horns.
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‘Long Shot’ misfires into trope-laden rom-com territory
“Long Shot” is at its core a film about a woman needing a man to “have it all,” and this is simply not a narrative that we need in the year 2019.
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‘I Think You Should Leave’ is hilarious, weird and over too soon
While many of the sketches draw from banal, everyday social encounters, the progress of each sketch is a complete mystery.
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Boundless cinema: SF International Film Festival celebrates directorial debuts, documentaries, democracy
From legendary jazz performers to excavated documentaries to bees, the festival highlighted previously told stories in innovative lights and projected wholly original storylines previously unseen by the public eye. Join The Daily Californian as we delve into these fresh tales.
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‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ showcases life of iconic jazz musician
An overall excellent documentary, “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” transcends some of the pitfalls of biographical work.
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‘Booksmart’ explores chaos, restlessness of the end of high school
“Booksmart” understands the stakes of this specific quarterlife crisis, spinning an entertaining thread before falling prey to its tendency to sugarcoat the situation.
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In ‘What We Left Unfinished,’ Mariam Ghani recalls Afghan tales burned, lost, forgotten
These directors, actors and writers produced art for the sake of both history and a chance to process the violence around them.
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‘Tehran: City of Love’ highlights search for identity in urban lifestyle
This triptych plays out in the streets of contemporary Tehran, a city where the language of love and the language of business are interwoven as subtly as the relationships forged between its inhabitants.
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