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Sam Fragoso

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Biography:

A native of Chicago, Sam lives and works in San Francisco as a journalist and student at San Francisco State University. He's the founder of Movie Mezzanine, residential film critic for SF Bay, and contributor to RogerEbert.com, Film School Rejects and others. He also happens to be illogically idealistic about everything (save for politics).

Favorites:

Annie Hall, Casablanca, Blow Out, His Girl Friday, 12 Angry Men, Taxi Driver, Breathless, 25th Hour, High Fidelity, Groundhog Day, The 400 Blows, The Apartment, Vertigo, Almost Famous, Days of Heaven, 8 1/2, Manhattan

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Mike Wallace Is Here (2019) 94% “The result is a prismatic portrait, a movie that sits at the intersection of long-form journalism and riveting documentary.” – TheWrap Feb 2, 2019 Full Review Honey Boy (2019) 95% “There's a specificity to the proceedings, unfurling like a film written by someone who's spent three decades trying better to understand his father and, in turn, himself. LaBeouf's recreation is nothing short of miraculous.” – TheWrap Jan 26, 2019 Full Review Loro (2018) 79% “"Loro" is the definitive Paolo Sorrentino film to date. It's brash, stylish, and silly. It oscillates back and forth between horny and human, profound and misguided. It's a glorious mess.” – TheWrap Sep 8, 2018 Full Review Uncle Drew (2018) 62% “The closing credits crystallize into what it wants to be: a movie about a bunch of people who love basketball and trash-talking in equal measure. This is the film Stone probably wanted to make. What he actually made is something else.” – TheWrap Jun 19, 2018 Full Review Beirut (2018) 81% “Contains all the elements of a fun, snappy, pre-summer jaunt, and yet the film is actively in competition with itself. The tone is grim and honest when it wants to be, but not necessarily when it needs to be.” – TheWrap Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Hearts Beat Loud (2018) 92% “The messiness of the script or the lack of an aesthetic approach just don't seem to matter all that much. "Hearts Beats Loud" knows exactly what it is.” – TheWrap Feb 16, 2018 Full Review The Foreigner (2017) 66% “By the hour mark, it becomes abundantly clear why this film was made: Jackie Chan wanted it to happen. Everyone else is fairly disposable.” – TheWrap Oct 12, 2017 Full Review One of Us (2017) 96% “First and foremost a heart-wrenching account of three lives, lost and scared and searching for repair.” – TheWrap Sep 11, 2017 Full Review What Happened to Monday (2017) 61% “Lands somewhere in a creative middle ground. Part fugitives-on-the-run thriller, part post-apocalyptic familial drama, Wirkola's latest is a perplexing amalgamation.” – TheWrap Aug 18, 2017 Full Review All the Rage (2017) 67% “It's a movie about two people that ends up being about no one at all.” – TheWrap Aug 12, 2017 Full Review The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017) 15% “If the original Nut Job was about the emergence of a single hero, the sequel is about a collective banding together to combat the powers that be. This is the film's greatest strength.” – TheWrap Aug 10, 2017 Full Review Chasing Coral (2017) 100% “It's staunchly pro-life, in the truest sense of the term.” – TheWrap Jul 14, 2017 Full Review The Keeping Hours (2017) “Where the film falls short, at times, is in Pace and Coon's representation of grieving and renewal. Whether it's an issue in the dialogue or direction, the actors struggle to break outside the same emotional quadrant.” – TheWrap Jun 27, 2017 Full Review The New Radical (2017) 58% 80 “By nature of its central subject, it's a piece of work that infuriates and excites. It's a deeply upsetting movie, and then, sporadically, a hopeful one.” – TheWrap Jun 7, 2017 Full Review Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (2017) 93% “This is a film of highs and lows; there is no middle ground, no moment of silence, reflection, or introspection. It's like watching a prospective candidate give a mannered and rehearsed 80-minute speech on the campaign trail.” – TheWrap May 27, 2017 Full Review Good Time (2017) 91% “This layered, detailed approach translates to all facets of Good Time. It's a movie born into existence through true collaboration. It's clear the Safdie brothers are beyond substantive storytellers; they're astute delegators.” – TheWrap May 26, 2017 Full Review Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017) 19% “None of the virtues of the Diary series came along for the ride.” – TheWrap May 15, 2017 Full Review The Wall (2017) 65% “There's an absence of intimacy. We don't know who these people are, and by about minute 45, we don't want to.” – TheWrap May 10, 2017 Full Review Slack Bay (2016) 65% “One of those rare movies that looks like it was fun to make, and is even more fun to watch.” – TheWrap Apr 27, 2017 Full Review Gifted (2017) 73% “Gifted finds a collective of competent people making a perfectly competent movie -- nothing more, nothing less.” – TheWrap Apr 6, 2017 Full Review The Disaster Artist (2017) 91% “Miraculously, the supporting players end up illuminating Wiseau's eccentricity instead of undercutting it.” – TheWrap Mar 15, 2017 Full Review Baby Driver (2017) 92% “The movie exists in this dreamlike state of ecstasy for nearly 70 minutes. Then there's a peculiar pivot into conventionality.” – TheWrap Mar 14, 2017 Full Review Gemini (2017) 70% “Transitions into an at once sleazy and slick genre thriller, enigmatic without being alienating. There's suspense in the movie's central mystery, enough to sustain the characters Katz has created.” – TheWrap Mar 13, 2017 Full Review Collide (2016) 23% “I don't subscribe to the notion that a piece of art shows its entire hand within its first ten minutes, but director Eran Creevy's third feature doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence with its bland introduction.” – TheWrap Feb 24, 2017 Full Review Monster Trucks (2016) 32% “These elements are all well and good, but if you're above the age of 12, it becomes considerably harder to reconcile the sporadic tone-deafness.” – TheWrap Jan 14, 2017 Full Review
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