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Review of Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Aug 2021

The new Netflix documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed, produced by husband-and-wife team Melissa McCarthy and Ben…

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Review of Ailey (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Aug 2021

Ailey weds forthright interviews and archival footage of abstract beauty with those sweeping dance sequences to conjure a haunting portrait…

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Review of Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Jul 2021

It’s a telling scene, musicians enjoying the company of other musicians, professionals all. Guy is a bluesman’s bluesman…

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Review of America: The Motion Picture (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Jun 2021

America: The Motion Picture isn’t really a failure, because it doesn’t even try…

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Review of Who Are You, Charlie Brown? (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Jun 2021

Who Are You, Charlie Brown…

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Review of Fatherhood (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Jun 2021

It takes a little while, but Fatherhood eventually becomes exactly what you expected…

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Review of Plan B (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 May 2021

Plan B is ultimately a gross-out sex comedy that has more than sex on its mind…

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Review of Plan B (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 May 2021

Plan B is ultimately a gross-out sex comedy that has more than sex on its mind…

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Review of Things Heard & Seen (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Apr 2021

Based on Elizabeth Brundage’s 2016 novel All Things Cease to Appear, Things Heard & Seen is a slow burn, and it spends a fair amount of…

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Review of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Apr 2021

Street Gang is a worthy celebration of a one-of-a-kind program. If you’re not careful, it might leave you humming your ABC’s…

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Review of Boogie (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Mar 2021

Boogie has some hops. But its all-around game could use a little work…

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Review of Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell (2021)

By Chris Vognar (609) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Feb 2021

The new documentary, Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell was made in the spirit of the earlier work and the younger man, the hungry hustler…

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Review of American Son (2019)

By Chris Vognar (609) for The New York Times (9,847) on 31 Oct 2019

At some point you’re tempted to stop following the narrative and start keeping score between husband and wife. It’s a good debate…

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Review of In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)

By Chris Vognar (609) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 Sep 2019

The film is never less than engaging, and it’s just about always clever…

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Review of Polar (2019)

By Chris Vognar (609) for The New York Times (9,847) on 31 Jan 2019

If Polar were a teenager, it might be content to chug Mountain Dew while playing first-person shooter games and trolling innocents online…

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Review of Polar (2019)

By Chris Vognar (609) for The New York Times (9,847) on 31 Jan 2019

If Polar were a teenager, it might be content to chug Mountain Dew while playing first-person shooter games and trolling innocents online…

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Review of The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 15 Aug 2018

The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a modest-size film that performs a service opposite to that of Conversion therapy: It respects the…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 08 Aug 2018

It's not pretty, which is one reason for the touches of comedy: Sometimes you need to laugh to keep from screaming…

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Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 11 Jul 2018

Sorry to Bother You swings from its heels, and when it hits, it hits hard…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 04 Jul 2018

Granik is one of the most distinctive filmmaking voices we have; I'd love to see her make more features but I'm also glad she takes the…

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