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Review of Pet Names (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 03 Nov 2018

I felt like I was constantly on the verge of loving this observant comedy about ex-lovers reuniting for an impromptu camping trip…

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Review of When the Trees Fall (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 03 Nov 2018

This strange slice of Ukrainian magic realism has a primal energy and unconventional, borderline chaotic construction…

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Review of Seder-Masochism (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 03 Nov 2018

Seder-Masochism lacks the thematic coherence and striking originality of Sita Sings the Blues, but it's actually a more accomplished film,…

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Review of Little Woods (2019)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 03 Nov 2018

The film has atmosphere and intensity to burn, but it also feels dwarfed by similar yet superior films…

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Review of mid90s (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

Mid90s is one of the slightest major releases in recent memory, and although a handful of nice moments point to Hill's potential, none of the…

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Review of Suspiria (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

Guadagnino's flavorless film is less a straight remake than a dreaded homage, with subtext becoming text, the unspoken getting spoken and tantalizing…

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Review of Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 30 Oct 2018

A film simultaneously obsessed with and contemptuous of William Friedkin's 1973 classic, Exorcist II: The Heretic is crazy without ever becoming…

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Review of Upside Down (2012)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

Earnest and tedious, Upside Down is lean on narrative and long on gobbledygook…

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Review of Dina (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

There is a rare mix of raw intimacy and artifice to Dina, with obvious camera set-ups and movie-like music cues but also amazing moments of…

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Review of Collateral Beauty (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

Despite a cast that includes six former Oscar nominees (and two winners), Collateral Beauty is essentially a rich person's Hallmark Hall of…

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Review of Lucky (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

Most actors don't get the opportunity to dictate their cinematic epitaph, and Lucky makes for a lively wake…

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Review of The Circle (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

The irrationally paranoid The Circle examines essential 21st-century privacy issues with all the depth of a Facebook debate…

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Review of The Identical (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

Is it an Elvis movie or a Jesus movie (or a dessert topping or a floor wax)…

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Review of Ready to Rumble (2000)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

Excrement could have easily received third billing…

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Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

Wiseman allows ample space for discovery and digression, and over the course of 197 mostly compelling minutes, disconnected vignettes shot…

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Review of Chavela (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 27 Oct 2018

An affectionate but rudimentary documentary introduction to Chavela Vargas…

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Review of Free Solo (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 24 Oct 2018

An atypical slasher movie that blurs the lines between high and low art, good and bad acting, male and female, proficiency and ineptitude,…

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Review of The Lady in the Van (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2018

He Lady in the Van offers more fourth wall-breaking narrative devices than a Tarantino fever dream, but since we're never that invested in…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2018

Pixar has set a high bar for films about anthropomorphized critters, inanimate objects, artificial intelligences and abstract concepts, too…

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