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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

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

It's a story tailor-made for Hollywood-it's remarkable that it hasn't been filmed before-but virtually everything goes wrong except the CGI…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

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

Dormer gives a nicely layered double performance as both twins-at least for the first hour or so, before the cheap scares and nonsense take over…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

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

Dormer gives a nicely layered double performance as both twins-at least for the first hour or so, before the cheap scares and nonsense take over…

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Review of Ride Along 2 (2016)

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

Everybody plays straight man to Hart, who here is more grating and less funny than he was two years ago in the first Ride Along-and not nearly…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Black (2016)

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

In the full movie, laughs are virtually nonexistent…

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Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

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

It's just another Hunger Games/Divergent/Maze Runner clone, with the heroine torn between two lovers…

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Review of Norm of the North (2016)

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

The movie is a shapeless mess that lands with a pathetic thud…

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Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

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

Tense and riveting, here's the movie some of us never knew Michael Bay had in him-the action, when it starts, is paradoxically both chaotic and clear…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Feb 2016

Like the first two, it's stylishly pretty to look at, and the over-the-top fight scenes and visual humor (courtesy of directors Alessandro…

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Review of Daddy's Home (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Dec 2015

There are a few good laughs scattered about, but with these stars it should have been a lot funnier…

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Review of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Dec 2015

It's harmless enough, but harmless garbage is still garbage…

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Review of Youth (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Dec 2015

It's a movie where very little really happens, and sometimes it feels as placidly shallow as the pools where the spa's guests soak themselves,…

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Review of Daddy's Home (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Dec 2015

There are a few good laughs scattered about, but with these stars it should have been a lot funnier…

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Review of Sisters (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Dec 2015

Paula Pell's script is like a distended Saturday Night Live skit, overworking one lame joke: what if a bunch of forty-somethings threw the…

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Review of Legend (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Dec 2015

As Reggie's emotionally fragile wife, Emily Browning is an oasis of sympathy amid the squalor, the only person in the movie we really give…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

A taut story well-told, suspenseful despite the fact that the world knows how it all turned out, and energized by an authentic sense of the…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

Expertly directed by John Crowley and adapted (equally well) by Nick Hornby from Colm Toibin's novel, this is one of the smallest, most intimate…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

Expertly directed by John Crowley and adapted (equally well) by Nick Hornby from Colm Toibin's novel, this is one of the smallest, most intimate…

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Review of Secret in Their Eyes (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

Ray builds an effective aura of menace and frustrated justice, with fine acting all around…

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Review of Heist (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Nov 2015

Echoes of better movies abound in Stephen Cyrus Sepher and Max Adams' screenplay, mixed with an illogic entirely their own…

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