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Mick Lasalle has opinions.
For example, he calls “Sinners,” Oakland filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s film that has garnered a record 16 Academy Awards nominations, “a middling movie with some great things in it.”
That’s the kind of unfiltered take folks in Napa have come to expect from the longtime Chronicle film critic — now retired and holding the title of emeritus — during his annual pre-Oscars conversation, which returns Wednesday, March 11…