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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 The Big Sick (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 12 Jul 2017

At 119 minutes long, it may be too much of a good thing-I have rarely been so aggravated by such a funny and heartwarming film…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 12 Jul 2017

The special effects are amazing, and the long takes and measured pace give War the flavor of an old-school impossible-mission epic, but there's…

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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 Okja (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Jun 2017

Offers more high-energy genre subversion from South Korean writer-director Bong Joon Ho, who this time uses a Spielberg-ian children's fantasy…

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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 The Book of Henry (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Jun 2017

At last, after The Lovely Bones and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, we receive the third part in a reprehensible triple feature of revoltingly…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Jun 2017

Remember the scene in Dawn of Justice where Batman sends Wonder Woman an email explaining the plot of the next film…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Jun 2017

Beatriz at Dinner, while smart, observant and well-acted, is an almost excessively minor culture clash drama…

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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 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Jun 2017

In its ability to spin mindless fun into heavy-handed bombast, the Pirates franchise is matched only by the Transformers films, and Dead Men…

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Review of The Wedding Plan (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Jun 2017

The Wedding Plan is intimate and occasionally fascinating, but as an entertainment it's trite and frequently sleep-inducing…

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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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