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Carla Meyer

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Film Critic, San Francisco Chronicle

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Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Scenes inside the cramped club hum with excitement and touches of anxiety heightened by Libatique’s handheld camera work.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2/4 EDIT “It holds too much space for trite dialogue, obvious special effects and pointless skirmishes between green-skinned animal-rights advocate Elphaba and the corrupt Oz administration — and too little for the story’s key relationships.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 18, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% 3/4 EDIT “Although it holds some of the same contrivances as the original, Hulu’s new remake also maintains tension and features a masterful performance, this time by Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the mother.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Proves the durability of a good story — and story within a story — no matter how many generic John Kander and Fred Ebb songs, weakly performed by Jennifer Lopez, come with it.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 14, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% 2/4 EDIT “In the film’s second half, as Lionel and David return to their regular lives, it becomes clear that O’Connor’s and Mescal’s acting had been doing too much, and the script too little, of the heavy lifting.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Eenie Meanie (2025) 43% 2/4 EDIT “What had been a romp grows serious, thus betraying the movie’s compact with an audience that agreed to its strictly amoral terms. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 25, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 84% 3/4 EDIT “The directors restrain themselves from drawing too much comedy from the obvious size difference between their two leads.” – San Francisco Chronicle Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Much like real life, Leigh’s unscripted, mostly improvised movies do not offer easy answers. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film moves from quietly morose to spectacularly cheesy via special effects that split the difference between Chaney’s heyday and today, landing somewhere near 1980s Roger Corman.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% 4/4 EDIT “For all its "wow" factors, "Wicked" is also achingly heartfelt...” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Martha (2024) 90% EDIT “Stewart’s impeccable instincts — and how successfully she has employed them — are too inherently fascinating a topic for “Martha” to ever truly bore.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 28, 2024 Full Review Smile 2 (2024) 86% 3/4 EDIT ““Smile 3” is probably already in the works, but Finn’s demented artistry has me looking further ahead, to his own “Megalopolis” 50 years from now.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Woman of the Hour (2023) 91% 3/4 EDIT ““Woman of the Hour,” Anna Kendrick’s tense, insightful directing debut, re-centers the narrative on Alcala’s victims and the rampant misogyny that suffused the 1970s.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Lonely Planet (2024) 39% 2/4 EDIT “The movie also flirts with xenophobia... But “Lonely Planet” will not be remembered for either of those elements. It will be for showing that Laura Dern, unequivocally and in every regard, can still get it.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 11, 2024 Full Review It's What's Inside (2024) 80% 2/4 EDIT “... Everybody knows gawking at being in someone else’s skin is a body-swap movie prerequisite. These are just dull people who happen to be in a visually adventurous film. ” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 3, 2024 Full Review House of Spoils (2024) 39% 2/4 EDIT “As the creepiness inevitably pervades the chef’s mental state like weeds in a garden, DeBose’s performance becomes less steady. Yet the actor deserves much of the credit for the film maintaining tension.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 1, 2024 Full Review Speak No Evil (2024) 83% 1.5/4 EDIT “For more than half of its nearly two-hour length, it plays more like the James McAvoy variety hour — which can be highly enjoyable if you do not mind one actor being the entire show.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 11, 2024 Full Review The Deliverance (2024) 34% 1/4 EDIT “As “Exorcist” knockoffs go, “The Deliverance” is at least highly pedigreed.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 28, 2024 Full Review The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (2024) 66% 2/4 EDIT “As it speeds toward conclusion, Supremes also stops subverting its more maudlin aspects, allowing a descent into soap operatic moments. The tone shift is so stark as to suggest the movie has been interfered with creatively...” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Jackpot! (2024) 32% 2/4 EDIT “Awkwafina and Cena share an authenticity that can withstand the artificiality pervading this comedy hinging on the idea of a “Purge”-like “grand lottery”...” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 14, 2024 Full Review Thelma (2024) 98% 3/4 EDIT ““Thelma” always emphasizes seniors’ capabilities, not their limits.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jun 18, 2024 Full Review Babes (2024) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT ““Babes” offers keen insights into pregnancy, parenting and longtime friendships, although many get lost in the movie’s bodily function-joke jamboree.” – San Francisco Chronicle May 16, 2024 Full Review Mother of the Bride (2024) 13% 2/4 EDIT “The whole cast is likable and the scenery lovely, making this only the second-worst Shields beach movie, after “The Blue Lagoon.”” – San Francisco Chronicle May 9, 2024 Full Review Frida (2024) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Distinguishes itself by using the artist’s own words — largely taken from Kahlo’s illustrated diary — to tell her story.” – San Francisco Chronicle Mar 12, 2024 Full Review Mean Girls (2024) 68% 3/4 EDIT “The songs are mid and some story elements aged like Juicy Couture, but the acting and singing are totally fetch in the new movie musical version of “Mean Girls.”” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 10, 2024 Full Review
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