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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Nov 2016

This is reportedly the first of five movies. Well, Rowling's audience is hard to alienate, but we'll just see about that…

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Review of Bleed for This (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Nov 2016

The movie never really overcomes the basic familiarity of its formula -- Triumph Over Adversity (Sports Division) -- but within those limits,…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 18 Nov 2016

The result is a genuine sci-fi thinkpiece, challenging and exhilarating…

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Review of Trolls (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Nov 2016

Directors Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn pepper the…

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Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Nov 2016

It's an incredible tale, superbly told and finely acted by Teresa Palmer as Doss' wife, Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths as his parents, Vince…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Nov 2016

Much of it takes place in the Mirror Dimension, an eye-popping universe that M.C. Escher might have imagined if he'd worked with CGI…

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Review of Inferno (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Nov 2016

Brown's shallow bag of tricks is getting more outlandish even as his plot twists grow less and less surprising, but writer David Koepp, director…

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Review of Dionne Copland's Inferno (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Nov 2016

Brown's shallow bag of tricks is getting more outlandish even as his plot twists grow less and less surprising, but writer David Koepp, director…

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Review of Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Oct 2016

The fans will probably be pleased, but the most interesting thing about this one is how Perry finesses playing scenes with himself in three…

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Review of Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Oct 2016

The movie is yet another James Bond spoof, no more imaginative than it needs to be. Yet the familiar ingredients are very nicely balanced…

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Review of The Accountant (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Oct 2016

Stylish and slick in the best sense of both words, it makes us welcome the idea of a franchise. (One is clearly intended.) J.K…

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Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2016

A book built around found photographs becomes a movie built around a visual effects wish list, and the story becomes even more involved and…

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Review of Max Steel (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2016

This I Was a Teenage Iron Man wannabe is inept at every level…

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Review of Kevin Hart: What Now? (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2016

There's no getting around the fact that he's pretty damn funny…

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Review of Masterminds (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Oct 2016

Hess deploys the same sneering derision he brought to Napoleon Dynamite; only Wiig eludes his heavy hand long enough to turn in a sensitive…

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Review of Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 Sep 2016

Zellweger saves the day, even when she's just going through the motions…

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Review of The Hollars (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Sep 2016

The Hollars is no towering drama blazing new trails in the art of film. It's just a nice, decent little movie about essentially nice, decent people…

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Review of Robinson Crusoe (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Sep 2016

This one is utterly, doggedly, defiantly undistinguished, designed only to play for a big opening weekend, cashing in on those millions of…

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Review of When the Bough Breaks (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Sep 2016

The movie boasts strong performances by Chestnut and Hall (both of whom are always welcome)…

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Review of Morgan (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 31 Aug 2016

There's a sleek and sterile look to it that makes it cold and slightly repellent, but it holds our interest, albeit without building much suspense…

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