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Review of Gold (2016)

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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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

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

Writer-director Mike Mills creates a world that feels at once distinctly individual and broadly typical, and it's the same for his characters…

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Review of Split (2017)

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

With nothing remotely human menacing the girls, the horrors visited upon them become just so much nasty sadism…

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Review of Silence (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Jan 2017

It's a stately, loving, sincerely acted and exquisitely photographed (by Rodrigo Prieto) experience…

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Review of Sleepless (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Jan 2017

This grimly mindless shoot-'em-up is based on a 2011 French picture that was in turn inspired by American movies from The French Connection…

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Review of Live by Night (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Jan 2017

Every one of the movie's 128 minutes reverberates with phoniness…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Jan 2017

It's a stately, loving, sincerely acted and exquisitely photographed (by Rodrigo Prieto) experience…

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Review of Monster Trucks (2016)

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

This clumsy little E.T…

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Review of Sing (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Jan 2017

The new stuff is dull and forgettable, while the oldies are dismissed after a few bars before we can even start tapping our feet, as if writer-director…

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Review of Sing (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Jan 2017

The new stuff is dull and forgettable, while the oldies are dismissed after a few bars before we can even start tapping our feet, as if writer-director…

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Review of Assassin's Creed (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Jan 2017

The script by Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage is historically illiterate claptrap and Justin Kurzel's direction (if that's the…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 23 Dec 2016

It's pretty routine, but Star Wars faithful should find it plenty good enough; director Gareth Edwards keeps things moving well enough for…

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Review of Collateral Beauty (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Dec 2016

Heartstrings resist such clearly calculated tugging; good tearjerkers tend to be a bit more messy…

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Review of Office Christmas Party (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Dec 2016

Two directors and six writers, and all they had to do was find an excuse for the kind of party scene that happens only in lame-brained movies…

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Review of La La Land (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Dec 2016

The transition isn't always smooth; the movie sags in the center as the songs grow sparse…

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Review of Miss Sloane (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Dec 2016

Chastain stomps around barking at everybody, while director John Madden and his cast (Sam Waterston, John Lithgow, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw,…

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Review of Incarnate (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Dec 2016

It's Inception meets The Exorcist, and the best thing you can say for this routine scare-'em-up is that the final result isn't as idiotic as…

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Review of Rules Don't Apply (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Dec 2016

It's a mess. Beautifully photographed (by Caleb Deschanel), gorgeously designed (Jeannine Oppewall) and conscientiously acted, but still a mess…

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Review of Moana (2016)

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

It's a two-character show, and the stars deliver the goods with irresistible charm…

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Review of Allied (2016)

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

The movie rashly invites an obvious comparison, but there's only one Casablanca…

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