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Review of Support the Girls (2018)

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

Coyote Ugly meets Clerks by way of Linklater and Lizzie Borden…

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Review of Gringo (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Oct 2018

The film has enough energy and nerve to carry you through the underwhelming end…

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Review of Madeline's Madeline (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 11 Oct 2018

Madeline's Madeline crackles with a strange and unpredictable energy from the first moments and rarely lets up…

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Review of 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Oct 2018

The only unique element that Padilha brings to this workmanlike thriller is an unexpected obsession with politically charged interpretive dance…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Oct 2018

It certainly satisfies on a base level, even though Uprising often feels like a straight-to-VOD fugitive…

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Review of The Song of Sway Lake (2019)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Dare Daniel (41) on 11 Oct 2018

While I can't say that much of it worked for me beyond the theoretical level, I admired director Ari Gold's attempt to transcend his Sundance-ready…

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Review of A Star Is Born (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

Both leads are fine, albeit one-note, and cinematographer Matthew Libatique supplies some sharp images, but the movie is pervasively musty…

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Review of The Sisters Brothers (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

Phoenix is very good as the hot-tempered Charlie, but Reilly steals the show as the comparatively gentle Eli, providing this rough-edged film…

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Review of Lizzie (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

Despite all the lurid details and topical relevance, Lizzie is so chilly and inert that it belongs in a whacks museum…

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Review of The Predator (2018)

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

The film doesn't contain a single thirty-second stretch of coherence throughout its 107-minute running time, to the point that it feels like…

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Review of White Boy Rick (2018)

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

White Boy Rick would have been helped by having a more dynamic lead actor in the title role, but newcomer Richie Merritt barely registers,…

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Review of The Wife (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Sep 2018

The quasi-august The Wife contributes little else to the subgenre besides two very good performances and a multitude of credibility-straining…

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Review of Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Sep 2018

A film of such cornball earnestness that you almost long for the fetishized torture of Jolie's film…

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Review of Puzzle (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Aug 2018

Macdonald has always been a welcome onscreen presence, and Puzzle offers the actress maybe her meatiest movie role yet…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Aug 2018

Essentially a PG-13 version of Alexandre Aja's Piranha 3D with fewer jokes and even less of a point, The Meg is a faceless, lifeless, workmanlike,…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

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

It's as polished, precision-tuned and effective a piece of filmmaking as you're likely to see all year long…

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Review of Three Identical Strangers (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Jul 2018

If their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet…

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Review of Boundaries (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Jul 2018

Boundaries is almost uniformly lowbrow, with a weak script that severely tests the likeability of Farmiga and Plummer…

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Review of 1945 (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jul 2018

1945 is an impeccably acted examination of the moral fester of the Holocaust, although the conclusion lacks the necessary impact…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Jun 2018

Zips through the usual starry-eyed interviews and nostalgia-filled highlight reels, but there is an essential emotional element to the film,…

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