more by M. Faust
published on Sep. 29, 2015 5pm
Reviews of The Walk, Sleeping with Other People, Stonewall, and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine.
published on Sep. 23, 2015 12am
There may be happy, well adjusted, even-tempered geniuses out there. But no one ever makes movies about them.
published on Sep. 20, 2015 9pm
Is it possible to make a bad film staring Patricia Clarkson and Sir Ben Kingsley? Maybe, but LEARNING TO DRIVE isn’t it.
published on Sep. 16, 2015 1am
Opening at the North Park this weekend, this Italian drama takes a meandering route to get to where it’s going.
published on Sep. 16, 2015 1am
No one knows better how to snap off a sarcastic retort than Lily Tomlin, and she gets plenty of them here.
published on Sep. 10, 2015 11pm
Mount Everest? It’s for pussies, says writer-mountineer Jon Krakauer.
published on Sep. 3, 2015 8pm
The Turbo Kid so looks (and sounds) like a cheesy 1980s movie that you could probably sneak it on the weekend schedule at the North Park and no one would bat an eye, other than possibly to comment, “Gee, I don’t remember this movie being so gory.”
published on Sep. 2, 2015 8am
Mistress America is being promoted as a modern screwball comedy, and it certainly harkens back to that frenetic genre, but with a modern twist.
published on Aug. 26, 2015 5pm
Fifteen film events not to miss this fall.
published on Aug. 26, 2015 1am
Adapted from Phoebe Gloeckner’s novel about growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s, this film wields its honesty like a weapon.