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Kelly Vance

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Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “A grand, complex, thought-provoking, intelligent piece of work, a combination war movie/courtroom drama/political beacon, on a subject that most of its audience might think is over and done with. ” – East Bay Express Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “Adventurous film nerds surrendering to Linklater’s vision of le beau monde are in for a treat.” – East Bay Express Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% EDIT “In its particulars, Peck’s tribute to Orwell is a celebration of one of history’s most vigorous skeptics, a champion of humanism, who once declared: “All that matters has already been written.”” – East Bay Express Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Truth & Treason (2025) 83% EDIT “As a cautionary tale for our time, Truth & Treason succeeds on its realistic performances and its urgent energy. Whether it turns out to be a dire forecast of the future remains to be seen. ” – East Bay Express Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% EDIT “Eden makes a strong argument for the female determinant in such rousing accounts of nonconformity. Hooray for blood and guts Darwinism! ” – East Bay Express Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation (2025) 70% EDIT “Director Ebs Burnough and writer Eliza Hindmarch take a different tack from most of the numerous treatments of the late author’s story. After a dazzling opening credits montage, the talking heads make their cases with appropriately surprising candor. ” – East Bay Express Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Oh, Hi! (2025) 64% EDIT “Noah Baumbach would probably fall asleep in the first 30 minutes. Quentin Tarantino wouldn’t leave a single character standing. Greta Gerwig would tear up the scenario -- no use sending it back for a rewrite. ” – East Bay Express Jul 29, 2025 Full Review The Old Woman with the Knife (2025) 93% EDIT “Filmmaker Min Kyu-dong, whose previous features have veered unsteadily from marital dramas to horror shockeroos, must have been out of his mind to put a senior citizen through such an ordeal. But the audience will remember it.” – East Bay Express May 21, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 84% EDIT “Gone are the joyous comic-book machismo of Little Junior Brown in Kiss of Death, the low-rent bent-cop lunacy of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans... By contrast, The Surfer is the definition of miscellaneous.” – East Bay Express May 5, 2025 Full Review Locked (2025) 63% EDIT “Skarsgård struggles with slack-a-daisical pacing in Locked. Even Hopkins, armed with his Hannibal-Lecter-style calmly malevolent line readings, never manages to raise the helter-skelter level much above a dull roar.” – East Bay Express Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% EDIT “Congratulations to Soderbergh, Koepp and company for turning in a 93-minute movie matched perfectly with a 93-minute plot line. No extravagant padding here.” – East Bay Express Mar 14, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% EDIT “Actor Torres has the face and demeanor of a true Mother Courage. And Salles’ restrained character study is a worthy successor to his socially relevant dramas The Motorcycle Diaries and Central Station.” – East Bay Express Feb 6, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% EDIT “From its casting to its settings to its all-important musical choices, James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is an electrifying, irresistibly engaging portrait of one of America’s unique originals, Bob Dylan.” – East Bay Express Dec 28, 2024 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% EDIT “The moody black-and-white cinematography of Jarin Blaschke is the best reason to stay with this well-intentioned tribute to the vampires of the past. ” – East Bay Express Dec 28, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% EDIT “Filmmaker Scott's visuals are as sumptuous (and obviously expensive) as usual, but this is plainly a rehash of familiar material.” – East Bay Express Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% EDIT “Hugh Grant isn’t used to being mixed up in a screenplay quite as messy and perplexing as Heretic’s is. ” – East Bay Express Nov 8, 2024 Full Review My Old Ass (2024) 90% EDIT “The most pleasant surprise of the late summer.” – East Bay Express Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% EDIT “Megalopolis never quite finds the right rhythm for its laborious critique of timeless immorality, but... Coppola still finds meaning in social commentary. And Coppola’s throwaway scenes are more worth seeing than most directors’ best.” – East Bay Express Sep 30, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “No actor alive could make this dopey mise-en-scène work.” – East Bay Express Sep 18, 2024 Full Review Cuckoo (2024) 79% EDIT “An endlessly derivative assault of grotesqueries in the service of what is essentially the tale of a custody battle. The violence, physical as well as emotional, grows wearisome. ” – East Bay Express Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Sing Sing (2023) 97% EDIT “It apparently wants to avoid being just another version of the overly familiar “coach/teacher vs. troublesome students/athletes/juvenile delinquents” scenario... And it succeeds, mostly because of Domingo’s performance as Divine G.” – East Bay Express Aug 8, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% EDIT “All three episodes could function as genre parodies, none of them nearly as much fun as Poor Things. Kinds of Kindness is more of a misconceived malpractice farce.” – East Bay Express Jul 1, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% EDIT “Exuberance alone can’t quite carry the burden, especially the fifth time around. The franchise peaked with Fury Road. This spectacle is running out of gas. ” – East Bay Express Jun 4, 2024 Full Review Evil Does Not Exist (2023) 91% EDIT “If Drive My Car was the tragedy of a modern man, Evil Does Not Exist is modern man’s comeuppance, served magnificently chilled.” – East Bay Express May 15, 2024 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% EDIT “Garland obviously did his research, even though Civil War adds up to little more than semi-political popcorn. Kudos to actors Dunst, Moura and Spaeny.” – East Bay Express Apr 18, 2024 Full Review
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