La Cocina (2024)
75%
“When a pipe bursts and floods the space, the camera captures a farcical ballet choreographed by a gleeful demon. The scene rivals the best moments from Marx Brothers’ films like Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera.” –
East Bay Express
Apr 9, 2025
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The Luckiest Man in America (2024)
66%
“In comparison with the real-life Larson who died in 1999, Paul Walter Hauser underplays the man’s genuine enthusiasm.” –
Metro Silicon Valley
Mar 5, 2025
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
“The director arranges his subjects inside a tableau composed of vibrant color schemes and lush, enviable living quarters. If paused, the most beautiful scenes could be printed out and mounted on a gallery wall.” –
Metro Silicon Valley
Jan 15, 2025
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Queer (2024)
77%
“Craig fuels the character with a mournful aura of longing and restlessness. We watch as the character’s sense of self melts away and out of the actor’s astonishing blue eyes.” –
Metro Silicon Valley
Dec 31, 2024
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Widow Clicquot (2023)
80%
“Widow Clicquot isn’t [Bennett's] first starring role, but it provides her with an opportunity to carry a feature film in which a solitary woman dismantles the patriarchy.” –
East Bay Express
Aug 20, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024)
71%
“Like Francis Bacon, Lanthimos favors a brutal vision of humanity that makes realistic portraiture pale in comparison.” –
KQED (San Francisco)
Jul 20, 2024
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023)
100%
“A dialogue about asparagus, passionfruit and rhubarb turns into a philosophical and artistic inquiry about technique, appearance and taste. The pace of the exchange rivals every Éric Rohmer movie.” –
East Bay Express
Mar 21, 2024
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The Taste of Things (2023)
97%
“The Taste of Things is, after all, a Juliette Binoche film. From Three Colours: Blue to Let the Sunshine In, the actress carries an air of tragedy around her neck like a sheer gossamer scarf.” –
East Bay Express
Feb 13, 2024
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The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher (2022)
“The documentary is a competent introduction of Fisher’s life and work to neophytes.” –
East Bay Express
Oct 11, 2023
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Fremont (2023)
98%
“In Babak Jalali’s film Fremont, the city features less as an actual place -- architecture and landscape shots rarely appear on screen -- but as a psychic weigh station where Donya lands to evaluate the state of her soul.” –
Metro Silicon Valley
Sep 13, 2023
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Passages (2023)
95%
“Sachs, who co-wrote the film, captures something more elusive about the nature of desire and its connection to the creation of art.” –
East Bay Express
Aug 23, 2023
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
94%
“[The central] conflict wears thin almost immediately, but is supplemented by the director’s characteristic skill at managing a variety of sardonic subplots.” –
East Bay Express
May 24, 2023
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The Forger (2022)
71%
“Under normal circumstances, the story of Cioma Schönhaus’ brief career in forgery would be a standard crime drama. But Maggie Peren’s film, The Forger, inverts the genre, with much more at stake than someone pulling off a scheme to get rich.” –
East Bay Express
Mar 29, 2023
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The Lost King (2022)
77%
“It’s difficult, as an American, to believe any member of the monarchy could possibly be an underdog, as The Lost King seems to posit.” –
KQED (San Francisco)
Mar 23, 2023
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A Good Person (2023)
57%
“A Good Person looks like it could have been made by any working director in Hollywood. It’s closed-in by precision and a cold professionalism, but does succeed as a vanity project.” –
East Bay Express
Mar 22, 2023
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One Fine Morning (2022)
93%
“The Parisian dream of romance is subjected to a hard dose of social realism in Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, One Fine Morning.” –
KQED (San Francisco)
Feb 3, 2023
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Women Talking (2022)
90%
“Like film noir, the absence of competing colors informs the somber tone of Women Talking. Everything looks like it’s taking place in a nightmare this group of women and girls is unable to forget.” –
KQED (San Francisco)
Jan 6, 2023
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Empire of Light (2022)
45%
“Empire of Light studies a woman who’s desperately trying to shake off her feeling of numbness. As the cinema’s exhausted muse and its battered figurehead, she seeks the emotional solace promised in so many films.” –
KQED (San Francisco)
Dec 9, 2022
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Spoiler Alert (2022)
87%
“In a nod to her role as the grieving mother in Steel Magnolias, Sally Field plays Kit’s mother. But Spoiler Alert doesn’t succumb to her movie star presence or resumé; Field doesn’t get in the way of Parsons’ performance -- he’s in nearly every scene.” –
KQED (San Francisco)
Dec 2, 2022
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The Menu (2022)
88%
“There’s no romantic spark between Fiennes and Taylor-Joy. There’s something better. Both actors have unfettered access to their inner villains.” –
East Bay Express
Nov 30, 2022
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My Policeman (2022)
44%
“Although Styles has attracted most, if not all of the publicity for the film, My Policeman wouldn’t work without Dawson and Corrin’s careful performances.” –
KQED (San Francisco)
Oct 20, 2022
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Bros (2022)
89%
“None of Bobby’s friends or coworkers are fleshed out beyond campy quips to correct or antagonize what is essentially his extended monologue.” –
East Bay Express
Oct 5, 2022
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Nope (2022)
83%
“OJ and Em find imaginative and practical ways to get themselves out of trouble. That’s why the audience goes along with them for the ride. They’re willing to let go of trauma the way children let go of helium-filled balloons. ” –
East Bay Express
Aug 10, 2022
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The Forgiven (2021)
69%
“The Forgiven might have worked as a parable if we’d only followed David to his inevitable fate, while leaving Jo and the dance party behind in the dust.” –
East Bay Express
Jul 6, 2022
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Official Competition (2021)
96%
“What’s unexpected about the film is the length to which Cuevas, Félix and Iván manipulate each other -- in cruel, witty and inventive ways. ” –
KQED (San Francisco)
Jul 1, 2022
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