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Review of The Hate U Give (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

Strikes a perfect balance between coming-of-age story and social-justice-warrior manifesto, never resorting to slogans, clichés or cardboard…

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Review of Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

The novelty has worn off, and Lieber and Sandel offer nothing to replace it…

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Review of The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

The whole movie has a loose-limbed, shambling, unpretentious charm, not unlike the matter-of-fact bemusement of Grann's original New Yorker piece…

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Review of Smallfoot (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

This animated time-killer is better than it has any right to be-but it's just barely good…

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Review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

This unabashed Harry Potter clone is enjoyable enough, thanks to Black's campy theatricality and Blanchett's sly minimalism…

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Review of Colette (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

Knightley and West head a pitch-perfect cast, and Westmoreland (aided by cinematographer Giles Nuttgens and designer Michael Carlin) flawlessly…

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Review of Night School (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

With six writers (including Hart) and Malcolm D…

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Review of Peppermint (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Sep 2018

Rehashes tropes from better (though not necessarily good) movies…

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Review of A Simple Favor (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Sep 2018

An impish throwback to the stylish glam-thrillers of the early 1960s with a 21st century sass to go with all the twists and turns of the plot…

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Review of The Bookshop (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Sep 2018

Writer-director Isabel Coixet paces her tale with subdued dignity that borders at times on a dogged plod, but which makes it all the more effective…

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Review of The Little Stranger (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Sep 2018

Neither a horror movie nor a ghost story, it's just a lot of atmosphere and earnest acting looking in vain for a story…

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Review of Operation Finale (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Sep 2018

Unfortunately, the movie lacks the ring of truth because much of it isn't... False details abound, clouding the effect of decent performances…

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Review of Juliet, Naked (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Sep 2018

Jesse Peretz's direction smooths out any wrinkles in the text, and the movie draws a nervous, energetic charm from Byrne's performance…

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Review of The Happytime Murders (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Aug 2018

The puppet work is brilliant, the jokes (however tasteless) are often funny, and McCarthy and Barretta have a strong chemistry…

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Review of A-X-L (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Aug 2018

Didn't anyone notice that the story made no sense, that it was just remnants of Short Circuit, E.T., WarGames and other better movies, strung…

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Review of Alpha (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Aug 2018

Give director Albert Hughes an A for ambition, but a C for cornball achievement…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Aug 2018

Chu's career has been a tad uneven in the past, but he shows a sure hand here, drawing fine performance from a large ensemble - especially…

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Review of Slender Man (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Aug 2018

This tawdry, shoddy stinker is a movie of rare and total incompetence, literally unwatchable thanks to some of the worst cinematography in…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Aug 2018

It's entertaining and angrily thought-provoking, with Lee at the top of his game - even if he can't stay off the soapbox and piles on too many…

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Review of Christopher Robin (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Aug 2018

Earnest acting, brilliant CGI and a few good lines can't conceal that the script is a half-hour's worth of stale whimsy dragged out to 104…

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