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Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2018

At a certain point, I simply surrendered to The Last Knight. I don't think I had a choice…

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Review of Rawhead Rex (1986)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 20 Oct 2018

With a dog of a script from Clive Barker, the film failed to inspire a Pavlou-vian response…

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Review of The Breadwinner (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 20 Oct 2018

A downbeat drama with elements of inspirational fantasy…

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Review of LA 92 (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 20 Oct 2018

A harrowing, sweeping, intelligent, dynamic and elegantly constructed montage…

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Review of God's Own Country (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 20 Oct 2018

Plodding and impenetrable in its shaky-cam stoicism…

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Review of Tragedy Girls (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 20 Oct 2018

A cheap, bad-looking, one-joke movie (Millennials and their social media amirite nyuk nyuk nyuk) filled with enough tired and uninsightful…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2018

A sharp-looking vehicle, even if there's not much going on under the hood…

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Review of The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 20 Oct 2018

The Cloverfield Paradox concerns an energy crisis on Earth, and yet the greater concern is the energy crisis onscreen…

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Review of Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2018

As a character, Roman J. Israel, Esq. is a non-stop thrill ride of actor choices. As for Roman J…

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Review of Their Finest (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2018

Two godforsaken hours of buttery drivel smothered in rancid nostalgia…

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Review of Keep the Change (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 19 Oct 2018

The complex portrayal of autism is refreshing, but apart from the milieu and the charisma of the cast, this is a fairly standard indie rom-com…

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Review of The Sacrifice (1986)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 19 Oct 2018

I was fascinated by the unusual elements on display - the inscrutable story structure, the deceptively complex long takes, the way that clashing…

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Review of Gemini (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 19 Oct 2018

Gemini essentially blends together the character dynamics from the last two Olivier Assayas films, then filters them through a sun-dazed, borderline…

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Review of The Oath (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Oct 2018

The toothless satire might be less noticeable if the comedy wasn't so similarly gummy, but most of The Oath is rambling and uninspired, mostly…

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Review of Transylmania (2009)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 19 Oct 2018

A rancidly unfunny yet pointlessly complex comedy with Ed Gein-level humor, rampant misogyny and homophobia, and a cast of 34-year-old college kids…

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Review of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 12 Oct 2018

Andersson doesn't move the camera or cut within the sequences, instead emphasizing composition and interior space, and allowing us to dwell…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 12 Oct 2018

It would be a shame to spoil any of the silky curves of the story but sufficed to say that silver bells aren't just for Christmas time in the…

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Review of The Endless (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 12 Oct 2018

Another super-intriguing, shoegazing, almost-there slice of genre revision from the directors of Spring…

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Review of Generation Wealth (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 12 Oct 2018

The degree of difficulty here is off the charts, and the wildly uneven results only make the achievement of Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson…

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Review of Damsel (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 12 Oct 2018

If you're looking for a revisionist western, you could do a hell of a lot better - Damsel couldn't carry the water of The Missouri Breaks…

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