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Review of My All American (2015)

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

Michael Reilly Burke and Robin Tunney are good as Steinmark's parents, while as Steinmark's devoted high-school sweetheart, Sarah Bolger makes…

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Review of Burnt (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

Cooper delivers the goods right enough, with help from Daniel Bruhl as his business partner and Sienna Miller as his sous-chef-cum-love-interest…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

Saving the day (well, more or less) are the assets: Craig and Fiennes (naturally), Lea Seydoux as a particularly appealing Bond girl, and Christoph…

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Review of Miss You Already (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

[The] script has the excruciating familiarity and predictability of a gal-pal tearjerker we've seen a hundred times already; all that's missing…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

Under Sarah Gavron's firm direction, Edward Grau's gritty cinematography and the sometimes murky accents (to American ears) add an aura of…

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Review of The Peanuts Movie (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

The movie is a near-total dud, endless at 93 minutes, useful only as an intro to the strip for the benefit of those who have been in a coma…

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Review of Love the Coopers (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

Grudges get massaged, secrets revealed, resentments flaunted, all punctuated with lame comedy and ending in the inevitable group hug…

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Review of Dancin': It's On! (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Nov 2015

The script by David A. Prior and director David Winters limply recycles bits of Dirty Dancing, Flashdance and other supposed classics of the 1980s…

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Review of All Things Must Pass (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Oct 2015

Hanks and Leckart tap into a latent nostalgia for Tower's free-and-easy heyday, and the movie is an intensely bittersweet experience for anyone…

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Review of Jem and the Holograms (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Oct 2015

The movie is trite, cheap and shoddy, designed to be watched on an iPhone instead of in a theater-plus, there's no way this assortment of bland…

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Review of The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Oct 2015

Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Michael Caine and Diesel are all wasted -- and so is our time…

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Review of Rock the Kasbah (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Oct 2015

Director Barry Levinson gives the movie a gritty veneer of realism and sun-baked menace, but Mitch Glazer's script is limp, unconvincing and…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2015

Director Guillermo del Toro (who co-wrote with Matthew Robbins) serves up an amusing, sometimes hilarious parody of a Victorian Gothic horror…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2015

Spielberg nicely captures the aura of frosty suspicion at the heart of the Cold War…

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Review of Goosebumps (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2015

Rob Letterman's surprisingly sprightly direction deftly walks the tightrope between comedy and genuine scares -- just the way Stine's books do…

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Review of Freeheld (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Oct 2015

The story is righteous and Moore and Page are strong (as is Michael Shannon as Moore's police partner), all to the movie's credit…

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Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Sep 2015

It's ironic that a player as unconventional as Fischer should inspire such a thoroughly conventional biopic…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Sep 2015

The first movie bid fair to rival Madagascar, Ice Age and Rio as the worst animation franchise ever, and this one delivers on that threat…

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Review of The Intern (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 23 Sep 2015

Hathaway and De Niro save the day; they're wonderful together…

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Review of The Intern (2010)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 23 Sep 2015

Hathaway and De Niro save the day; they're wonderful together…

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