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Review of The Promise (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Apr 2017

It's engrossing, moving and appalling, carrying us with indelible stately sweep from the exotic elegance of upper-class Constantinople to the…

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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Apr 2017

The nonstop action is so blatantly implausible that there's not a second's worth of genuine excitement in the whole two hours and 16 minutes…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Apr 2017

It's engrossing, moving and appalling, carrying us with indelible stately sweep from the exotic elegance of upper-class Constantinople to the…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Mar 2017

There's…

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Review of CHiPs (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Mar 2017

Shepard seems set on giving it the Brady Bunch or 21 Jump Street spoof treatment, but he doesn't have the wit to pull it off…

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Review of The Belko Experiment (2017)

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

This soulless bloodbath isn't badly made for what it is-but as always with trash like this (Saw, The Purge), what it is is the problem…

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Review of The Sense of an Ending (2017)

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

For all the talent in front of the camera, it's a dull affair, lifeless, inert and almost exquisitely boring; its supposed revelations don't…

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Review of Table 19 (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Mar 2017

We squirm through some awkward moments but in the end we're glad we came…

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Review of The Last Word (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Mar 2017

It's just too contrived, at its most banal when it thinks it's being profound, and it doesn't add up on any real level…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

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

Somehow it all works; there's the right blend of excitement and humor in the script (by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly and John…

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Review of Before I Fall (2017)

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

If nothing else, the movie will be worth it if it finally makes a star of Deutch; she's overdue. J.L…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Mar 2017

Director Zhang Yimou, the darling of art-house cinemas the world over, tries his hand at a fantasy adventure epic and achieves only low camp,…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Mar 2017

The gloomiest and grisliest of the X-Men franchise is expertly crafted in detail but overlong, dreary and dispiriting as a whole…

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Review of Rock Dog (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Mar 2017

An excruciating, unendurable stinker from first frame to last…

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Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Mar 2017

There's nothing wrong with it, but it has a stolid predictability, moving from frustration to triumph with the clanking regularity of a well-built…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

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

It's almost hypnotically beautiful and you can't look away, right up to the off-the-wall ending. Verbinski delivers the goods on that score…

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Review of The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

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

He result is more fun than Batman's been since Adam West hung up his purple tights…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 23 Feb 2017

Ice Cube shows himself once again as one of the most underrated actors in movies -- but maybe that's because he keeps making movies like this…

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Review of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 03 Feb 2017

[Anderson] clutters up the screen with constant physics-defying CGI action, shot with jittery cameras and assembled with assaultive Cuisinart editing…

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Review of Gold (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 03 Feb 2017

Performances, including Édgar Ramírez as a maverick geologist and Bryce Dallas Howard as McConaughey's loyal girlfriend, save the day…

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