Jeffrey Edalatpour

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Sep 16, 2026 While he’s found a handful that remain open, The Last Picture Shows pays homage to the 19,000 theaters whose neon signs went dim. They offered a pre-digital communal space before we collectively decided to stay home and go steady with our remote controls. Go to Full Review The Last Picture Shows (2026) 100% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Aug 19, 2026 Viewers unaware of the backstory can simply watch the film as a snapshot of one rebellious adolescent’s summer by the seaside. A season spent pursuing the pleasures of wine, women and seafood, all accompanied by a 1970s playlist. Go to Full Review Tony (2026) 93% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Feb 18, 2026 Skarsgård undercuts his onscreen presence as the ultimate object of desire by discarding Ray’s soul. He’s an impenetrable alpha male whose only need for connection is physical. Go to Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Dec 23, 2025 In the world Filho constructs, moral ambiguity doesn’t exist. Everyone is complicit. Go to Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Sep 16, 2025 With vast archival resources at his disposal, Veiel has constructed an eviscerating cinematic response to Leni Riefenstahl’s life and career as well as Ray Müller’s 1993 documentary, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl. Go to Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour Metro Silicon Valley Jun 4, 2025 This retro-futurism is fun to look at but the people posed inside these dioramas are as lifeless as dolls. Anderson places them inside of a weightless plot whose elements have been pilfered from early 20th century young adult adventure novels. Go to Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Apr 9, 2025 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. Go to Full Review La Cocina (2024) 72% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour Metro Silicon Valley Mar 5, 2025 In comparison with the real-life Larson who died in 1999, Paul Walter Hauser underplays the man’s genuine enthusiasm. Go to Full Review The Luckiest Man in America (2024) 67% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour Metro Silicon Valley Jan 15, 2025 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. Go to Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 80% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour Metro Silicon Valley Dec 31, 2024 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. Go to Full Review Queer (2024) 76% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Aug 20, 2024 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. Go to Full Review Widow Clicquot (2023) 79% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour KQED (San Francisco) Jul 20, 2024 Like Francis Bacon, Lanthimos favors a brutal vision of humanity that makes realistic portraiture pale in comparison. Go to Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Mar 21, 2024 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. Go to Full Review Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) 100% 83%

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Feb 13, 2024 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. Go to Full Review The Taste of Things (2023) 97% 44%

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Oct 11, 2023 The documentary is a competent introduction of Fisher’s life and work to neophytes. Go to Full Review The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher (2022) - - - -

Jeffrey Edalatpour Metro Silicon Valley Sep 13, 2023 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. Go to Full Review Fremont (2023) 98% 87%

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Aug 23, 2023 Sachs, who co-wrote the film, captures something more elusive about the nature of desire and its connection to the creation of art. Go to Full Review Passages (2023) 94% 72%

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express May 24, 2023 [The central] conflict wears thin almost immediately, but is supplemented by the director’s characteristic skill at managing a variety of sardonic subplots. Go to Full Review You Hurt My Feelings (2023) 94% 64%

Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express Mar 29, 2023 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. Go to Full Review The Forger (2022) 71% 99%

Jeffrey Edalatpour KQED (San Francisco) Mar 23, 2023 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. Go to Full Review The Lost King (2022) 77% 92%