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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Aug 2017

The result is cold and unconvincing, by turns dull and repellent…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Aug 2017

The movie is an utterly unique masterpiece, freighted with inchoate meaning and glimpses of eternity…

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Review of Maudie (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Jul 2017

Hawkins is the best reason to see this sluggish, pinched, claustrophobic little biopic; whenever it threatens to grow dreary, which it does…

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Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Jul 2017

The story is slight but sufficient, and the fun keeps coming…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 12 Jul 2017

Marvel's latest reboot of this troubled franchise offers some new-toy fun for fans dead-set on a good time…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Jul 2017

Wright glosses over some plot points in the interest of getting on with things, but the car chases are the point, and they're terrific…

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Review of The House (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Jul 2017

The movie takes an idea with a slender thread of promise and does absolutely nothing with it, dissolving instead into unrelieved stupidity…

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Review of Despicable Me 3 (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Jul 2017

The story is all over the place-to the point where there's really no story at all…

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Review of Cars 3 (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Jun 2017

Whether Lightning's midlife crisis will resonate with the movie's kiddie audience remains to be seen, but Fee and company get points for bringing…

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Review of All Eyez on Me (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Jun 2017

It's strictly Amateur Night at the Biopic Factory…

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Review of Rough Night (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Jun 2017

McKinnon sports the worst Australian accent in the history of the acting profession, but it's still one of the best things about this no-class…

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Review of Megan Leavey (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Jun 2017

The movie is pretty good, but it's hard to escape the feeling that there's a much better movie in Megan Leavey's true story, one that never…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Jun 2017

There are too many villains, none of them dramatically strong enough to be much of a threat, and the most interesting characters get killed…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Jun 2017

It's grim, bleak, uncomfortable and certainly no fun -- but performances are excellent and Shults' atmosphere of soul-corroding terror is hard…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 24 May 2017

It's stylish enough, and Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup and various others give it their best efforts, but if you don't see it -- well, unlike…

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Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 May 2017

Jokes are lame, David Bowers' direction is tired and the handful of stick-figure animation scenes are cleverer than the live-action…

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Review of Snatched (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 May 2017

Schumer and Hawn make a great team, their comic chops meshing nicely (a sequel looks all but assured)…

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Review of Born in China (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 Apr 2017

The footage really is fascinating, even mind-boggling, and at a swift, economical 76 minutes, the movie hardly has time to wear out its welcome…

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Review of The Lost City of Z (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 Apr 2017

Gray never quite pulls us into Fawcett's obsession, but his respectful, respectable picture keeps us watching, interested if not deeply involved…

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Review of Unforgettable (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 Apr 2017

Hitchcock himself couldn't have pulled this schlock off…

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