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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 Get Out (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Mar 2017

Making his directorial debut, Peele manages to continually pique our interest, even when we know where the story is heading…

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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 Toni Erdmann (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Mar 2017

Toni Erdmann is so loaded with show-stopping sequences and contradictory tones that it's hard to know where to start, but I doubt anyone will…

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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 Bitter Harvest (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Mar 2017

It seems like Mendeluk and his writer Richard Bachynsky Hoover were striving for something sweeping and old-fashioned, but the end result is…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Mar 2017

Director Chad Stahelski and writer Derek Kolstad reteam with star Keanu Reeves for John Wick: Chapter 2, a surprisingly necessary sequel to…

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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 xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)

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

It's sophomoric and occasionally slapdash, but also quite entertaining…

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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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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 Julieta (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 Jan 2017

Fortunately, the uniformly strong performances make it work…

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