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Review of The Wall (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 May 2017

Compact, blunt and borderline exploitative, Doug Liman's lean military thriller The Wall largely plays like a Max Fischer stage adaptation…

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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 The Lovers (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 May 2017

It's great to see a showcase role for the always underused Winger…

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Review of The Dinner (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 03 May 2017

The film is much more interesting in its amuse-bouche diversions, including a surreal and emotional trip to the battlefield at Gettysburg…

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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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Review of Your Name. (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Apr 2017

It's the rare work of art that can base an extraordinarily powerful moment of emotional catharsis on compulsive boob-squeezing, but that's…

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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 Free Fire (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Apr 2017

The hard-boiled, insult-comic dialogue might sometimes lean a little closer to Guy Ritchie than Quentin Tarantino, but the energy and momentum…

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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 Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 24 Mar 2017

It's a high-gloss recycle job, designed to do nothing more than massage your nostalgia sensors for two interminable hours…

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Review of Kedi (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Mar 2017

The film runs only 80 minutes, but I could have watched a version at least three times as long…

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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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