East Bay Express
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Rating
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Author
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Tully (2018)
Tully is a serendipitous treasure.
Posted May 2, 2018
4
RBG (2018)
Ginsburg is a woman we instinctively want to know more about, and RBG gives us that chance.
Posted May 2, 2018
5
The doc is padded out shamelessly. Worse, when it's not dwelling on random incidents, it's worshipful to a fault.
Posted Apr 25, 2018
6
The Rider (2018)
[Director Chloe] Zhao and her films are worth discovering, and The Rider is a welcome surprise.
Posted Apr 25, 2018
7
Blumhouse's Truth or Dare (2018)
Truth or Dare stops being dumb fun somewhere around the halfway mark, and the filmmakers quickly run out of ways to prolong the action - until they run out of players.
Posted Apr 19, 2018
8
Little Pink House (2018)
9
Beirut (2018)
Beirut is essentially a war movie trying to re-create a 1980s frame of mind, James Bond-ian spies and all.
Posted Apr 11, 2018
10
[The Joffro brothers'] story is worth seeing, especially for Holocaust-movie completists.
Posted Apr 11, 2018
11
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Isle of Dogs is absolutely irresistible.
Posted Mar 26, 2018
12
Foxtrot (2018)
Foxtrot is recommended.
Posted Mar 21, 2018
13
The Death of Stalin (2018)
The hint that he and the writers are dropping is that if we can guffaw at these monsters, we can deal with anything. See The Death of Stalin and face the future unafraid.
Posted Mar 21, 2018
14
Gringo (2018)
... Gringo is a nasty piece of sub-Breaking Bad junk.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
15
Oh Lucy! (2018)
Oh Lucy! adopts the bold strategy of taking away, as opposed to piling on, and it works.
Posted Mar 14, 2018
16
What a bombshell.
Posted Mar 7, 2018
17
Submission (2018)
The archly titled Submission is an equal-opportunity panorama of folly, a fictional quagmire to help keep our minds off the real one all around us.
Posted Mar 7, 2018
18
Loveless (Nelyubov) (2018)
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Annihilation (2018)
When Lena ventures into that hole in the floor of the lighthouse, the worlds she opens up are truly astounding. We might even say they're worth the trip.
Posted Feb 28, 2018
20
The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
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A Fantastic Woman is highly recommended.
Posted Feb 14, 2018
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Double Lover, an unintentionally funny trip down the therapeutic rabbit hole, may be the clumsiest scenario Ozon has ever been connected with.
Posted Feb 14, 2018
23
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2018)
... a refreshing change from some animated trips to "exotic" places - they too often seem to end up being variations on life in a sanitized preteen suburban America.
Posted Jan 31, 2018
24
The Insult (L'insulte) (2018)
The Insult brings that familiar tension home to Beirut, with a roster of intense performances to add the human dimension to what is essentially a courtroom drama...
Posted Jan 26, 2018
25
... the wonderfully artificial-looking sets have a charm of their own.
Posted Jan 24, 2018
26
Hostiles (2018)
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Phantom Thread (2018)
Phantom Thread is as puzzling and tantalizing as the subject of beauty itself, a movie quite unlike anything else we'll see this year.
Posted Jan 17, 2018
28
The Final Year (2018)
Obama is gone, and yet is still among us.
Posted Jan 17, 2018
29
Happy End (2017)
Haneke veterans Huppert and Trintignant handle their roles with skill. The filmmaker filigrees his point of view into every crack and crevice.
Posted Jan 10, 2018
30
The Post (2018)
It's a story worth retelling every few years, lest we forget.
Posted Jan 3, 2018
31
All the Money in the World (2017)
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Molly's Game (2018)
After a frantic first two hours, the pic goes into a "finding herself" pattern, which means losing us.
Posted Dec 27, 2017
33
I, Tonya (2018)
Robbie, Sebastian, and especially Janney nail their roles.
Posted Dec 27, 2017
34
Call Me by Your Name (2018)
What distinguish it from the competition are the dialogue and the acting.
Posted Dec 20, 2017
35
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
36
Darkest Hour (2017)
37
The Shape of Water (2017)
It's the actors who give Shape its shape, sculpted by del Toro's affinity for the underdog.
Posted Dec 6, 2017
38
Voyeur (2017)
Voyeur is not a gratifying documentary, the kind that makes us feel happy the truth came out.
Posted Nov 29, 2017
39
Coco (2017)
Directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, helped out by writers Jason Katz and Matthew Aldrich and a full-size city of technicians and crew, hit the right chords, gracefully.
Posted Nov 27, 2017
40
Justice League (2017)
The contempt that Justice League has for its audience is open, unashamed, and matter-of-fact.
Posted Nov 17, 2017
41
Mudbound (2017)
[Dee] Rees directs this sprawling, supremely well-acted saga with a steady, realistic hand...
Posted Nov 17, 2017
42
The flick is riddled with first-rate actors mouthing provocative dialogue in a unique story.
Posted Nov 15, 2017
43
Lady Bird (2017)
... in the writing-directing debut of actress-turned-filmmaker Greta Gerwig, with Ronan and a carefully chosen cast of characters, the time-worn genre twinkles like new.
Posted Nov 13, 2017
44
Last Flag Flying (2017)
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Miike has a flair for depicting cruelty and violence, and such talent is usually rewarded, especially in the service of tales of strife-filled ancient Japan.
Posted Nov 1, 2017
46
Wonderstruck (2017)
Wonderstruck is successful only from the narrowest of perspectives.
Posted Oct 25, 2017
47
The Snowman (2017)
This putatively tense crime story melts before our eyes.
Posted Oct 20, 2017
48
Human Flow (2017)
As reported in Ai Weiwei's mesmerizing new documentary, the Human Flow is steady and seemingly relentless.
Posted Oct 18, 2017
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Victoria & Abdul (2017)
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)