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KQED (San Francisco) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jeffrey Edalatpour.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) Rae Alexandra One can’t help but leave Super/Man inspired but also crestfallen.
Posted Sep 27, 2024  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Michael Fox In lieu of the satisfying catharsis implicit in that payback scenario — payback for the suffering women endured — The Substance smashes us with something far more disturbing
Posted Sep 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Jeffrey Edalatpour Like Francis Bacon, Lanthimos favors a brutal vision of humanity that makes realistic portraiture pale in comparison.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
Hit Man (2023) Aisha Harris Hit Man’s final act is the kind you either go with or get frustrated by. It’s a big swing that tests the limits of suspending disbelief. But the movie’s driving theme reflects curiosity about the human capacity for change and self-creation...
Posted Jun 13, 2024  Edit critic review
The Lost King (2022) Jeffrey Edalatpour 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.
Posted Mar 23, 2023  Edit critic review
One Fine Morning (2022) Jeffrey Edalatpour The Parisian dream of romance is subjected to a hard dose of social realism in Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, One Fine Morning.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Women Talking (2022) Jeffrey Edalatpour 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.
Posted Jan 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Empire of Light (2022) Jeffrey Edalatpour 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.
Posted Dec 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Spoiler Alert (2022) Jeffrey Edalatpour 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.
Posted Dec 02, 2022  Edit critic review
My Policeman (2022) Jeffrey Edalatpour 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.
Posted Oct 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Official Competition (2021) Jeffrey Edalatpour What’s unexpected about the film is the length to which Cuevas, Félix and Iván manipulate each other -- in cruel, witty and inventive ways.
Posted Jul 01, 2022  Edit critic review
Crimes of the Future (2022) Jeffrey Edalatpour There’s a chilling lack of oxygen in David Cronenberg’s new film.
Posted Jun 03, 2022  Edit critic review
The Worst Person in the World (2021) Jeffrey Edalatpour Oslo itself is a significant scenic presence in the movie. Trier can’t find anything unattractive to photograph there. More than once when Julie is in turmoil, the director follows her to an extraordinary view of the fjord from the top of a hillside.
Posted Feb 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Parallel Mothers (2021) Jeffrey Edalatpour Almodóvar excels at evoking the atmosphere of movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, emulating auteurs like Douglas Sirk.
Posted Jan 14, 2022  Edit critic review
The Truth (2019) Jeffrey Edalatpour Shrewd, moving and thoughtful.
Posted Jul 14, 2020  Edit critic review
The Windermere Children (2020) Jeffrey Edalatpour Set 75 years in the past, The Windermere Children makes a brief nod to the contemporary persistence of xenophobia and anti-Semitism -- and the moral necessity of combatting such hatred.
Posted Apr 08, 2020  Edit critic review
Us (2019) Jeffrey Edalatpour Us is crowded with witty references to other movies that may or may not turn out to be red herrings.
Posted Mar 28, 2019  Edit critic review
Cold War (2018) Jeffrey Edalatpour Cold War is filled with remarkably staged scenes that linger in the viewer's consciousness for days.
Posted Jan 25, 2019  Edit critic review
Mary Queen of Scots (2018) Jeffrey Edalatpour But apart from title cards that bookend the film, every plot advancement feels rushed-through, truncated or undeveloped.
Posted Dec 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018) Jeffrey Edalatpour What Van Sant and Phoenix emphasize about Callahan's life...was his ability to look back with laughter at his alcoholism and his sudden paralysis rather than living out the rest of his days in silent despair.
Posted Jul 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Hereditary (2018) Jeffrey Edalatpour It's 2:38am and I'm convinced there's someone, or some-thing, in the attic. I have Ari Aster's first feature film Hereditary to thank for the past four nights of anxiety-induced sleeplessness.
Posted Jun 08, 2018  Edit critic review
Double Lover (2017) Jeffrey Edalatpour Like Young & Beautiful, Ozon can't figure out if he's empowering or exploiting his heroine.
Posted Feb 14, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) Jeffrey Edalatpour It's the lack of one other ingredient -- saccharine -- that makes the emotional life of a film about a faded movie star feel true and real.
Posted Jan 23, 2018  Edit critic review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) Jeffrey Edalatpour As an imperious yet helpless mother, Kidman allows a breathtaking ugliness into her performance. It saturates the character's facial expressions that well up from whatever's left of her soul.
Posted Oct 27, 2017  Edit critic review
35 Shots of Rum (2008) Jeffrey Edalatpour Over the course of this 100 minute film, a father (Alex Descas in an understated, near mute, performance), slowly comes to understand his daughter's need for independence.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Please Give (2010) Jeffrey Edalatpour In another director's hands, this subject might have been rife with sanctimony. Instead, Holofcener has made a sly, urbane comedy with several smart actresses who make her acerbic dialogue lively and believable, character-driven.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Coco Before Chanel (2009) Jeffrey Edalatpour As Coco Chanel, Tautou is as rigid and humorless as a corset, unable to breathe life into the character.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009) Jeffrey Edalatpour Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo is more like a series of haiku stitched together than a formally persuasive documentary. If you're like me, you won't love insects any more after watching the film, but you will better appreciate the idea of them.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Secret in Their Eyes (2015) Jeffrey Edalatpour What lends this film its power are the personal and political traumas that Argentina sustained during its "Dirty War."
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Tangerine (2015) Jeffrey Edalatpour Tangerine could be a bellwether: casting transgender actors in transgender roles.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Mustang (2015) Jeffrey Edalatpour With this film, Ergven creates a moving leap forward in the evolution of female self-determination.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) Jeffrey Edalatpour If the names Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver don't spark some recognition in you (and they should), Nelson's film acts as a smart, moving primer for anyone wanting a point of entry into the Black Panther origin story.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Lamb (2015) Jeffrey Edalatpour While the personal is political in Lamb, it's also an affecting work of art.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
I Am Love (2009) Jeffrey Edalatpour I Am Love is essential viewing for those of us who are astonished by Tilda Swinton's ability to become someone new in every film.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
A Quiet Passion (2016) Jeffrey Edalatpour [A Quiet Passion] also serves to remind why we still study and read Dickinson more than a hundred years after her death.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Saint Laurent (2014) Jeffrey Edalatpour Saint Laurent is the filmic equivalent of drinking a bottle of absinthe. Even after leaving the theater, its green haze is not easily shaken off.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) Jeffrey Edalatpour We feel for the characters without seeing or sharing their varied points of view. We only observe - dumbfounded and uncomprehending - like a pigeon staring down from a tree branch.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Certain Women (2016) Jeffrey Edalatpour The deference to her collaborators belies Reichardt's hold on the psychological landscape - and on the inner lives of her characters - that brings the stories of Certain Women into resonant coherence.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Kicks (2016) Jeffrey Edalatpour Kicks captures the look and feel of specific East Bay neighborhoods by examining their geographical and emotional microclimates.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Personal Shopper (2016) Jeffrey Edalatpour Like some angry, lingering ghost from the past, Bella Swan is exorcised and cast out at last.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
Maudie (2016) Jeffrey Edalatpour In all of Maud's unfailingly cheerful oeuvre, Walsh found she never painted a self-portrait. Maudie is the result of the director's desire to fill that gap.
Posted Sep 18, 2017  Edit critic review
mother! (2017) Jeffrey Edalatpour The destruction of the planet is an obvious cause for concern, but so too is another movie with violent imagery directed at women, beautifully photographed, once again written by a man.
Posted Sep 15, 2017  Edit critic review
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