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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 Patriots Day (2016)

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

A gripping portrayal of an hour-by-hour response to terror, with strong supporting players and an effective score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Jan 2017

Poetry is about taking the realities of your life and the complexities of your mind and heart and transforming them into something beautiful…

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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 Elle (2016)

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

Huppert is practically incapable of falseness, the perfect star for a film obsessed with ugly truths…

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Review of Hidden Figures (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Jan 2017

If Quentin Tarantino really only has two movies left, I pray that at least one of them stars Janelle Monáe…

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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 A Monster Calls (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Jan 2017

Ancient trees, am I right? You just never know…

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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 Fences (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Dec 2016

The filmmaking is fluid and patient and tasteful-in-a-good-way, and the images captured by cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen convey…

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Review of Lion (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 23 Dec 2016

Davis and screenwriter Luke Davies aggressively strum the heartstrings, but the film falters as it focuses more on product placement than people…

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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 Lion (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 23 Dec 2016

Davis and screenwriter Luke Davies aggressively strum the heartstrings, but the film falters as it focuses more on product placement than people…

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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 The Eagle Huntress (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Dec 2016

There's a long tradition of making stuff up in documentaries, so while The Eagle Huntress satisfies in the style of a Disney adventure movie…

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