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Review of The Hollars (2016)

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

The Hollars is no towering drama blazing new trails in the art of film. It's just a nice, decent little movie about essentially nice, decent people…

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Review of Don't Think Twice (2016)

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

It's just affable enough to survive a disastrous last 10 minutes…

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Review of Robinson Crusoe (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Sep 2016

This one is utterly, doggedly, defiantly undistinguished, designed only to play for a big opening weekend, cashing in on those millions of…

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Review of The Disappointments Room (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Sep 2016

The script is credited to Caruso and Wentworth Miller, and while it deserves credit for mixing some gothic surrealism in with the jump scares,…

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Review of When the Bough Breaks (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Sep 2016

The movie boasts strong performances by Chestnut and Hall (both of whom are always welcome)…

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Review of Morris from America (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Sep 2016

Morris from America isn't shy about rolling around in genre tropes - it manages to be a fish-out-of-water story, a coming-of-age story and…

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Review of Morgan (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 31 Aug 2016

There's a sleek and sterile look to it that makes it cold and slightly repellent, but it holds our interest, albeit without building much suspense…

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Review of Hands of Stone (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 31 Aug 2016

It's well-mounted and well-acted by a cast that includes Rubén Blades as Durán's manager, Usher Raymond IV as Sugar Ray Leonard, John Turturro…

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Review of Ben-Hur (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 31 Aug 2016

The story is shredded to the bare bones, then the bones picked clean of drama and common sense. Even the chariot race is ho-hum…

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Review of Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 31 Aug 2016

As Statham demonstrated with his hilarious turn in the Melissa McCarthy gem Spy, there's something about his humorlessness that is itself amusing…

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Review of Equity (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 24 Aug 2016

Briskly directed by Meera Menon and smartly written by Amy Fox, Sarah Megan Thomas and Alysia Reiner, the movie is slick, well-crafted and…

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Review of Hell or High Water (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 24 Aug 2016

Hollywood used to turn out solidly constructed, midsized genre films like this by the score, but now they're so rare that Hell or High Water…

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Review of Southside with You (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 24 Aug 2016

It's so respectful I could barely keep my eyes open, but first-rate performances from Sumpter and Sawyers pulled me through…

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Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Aug 2016

With the aid of director Stephen Frears, Streep rises above her text and manages to earn the sympathy Martin so clumsily demands for her…

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Review of Indignation (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Aug 2016

The performances hold it together, including a scene-stealing turn from Linda Emond as Marcus' mother…

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Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Aug 2016

The mind-boggling chutzpah of these two sleazeballs (plus Hill and Teller's strong performances) keep us watching in fascination…

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Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Aug 2016

There is such a purity of vision to this thing, such a warm storybook vibe, and such a scarcity of the usual family entertainment pitfalls…

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Review of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Aug 2016

There's a little too much clutter in the story and not enough urgency, and the whole of Kubo ends up as less satisfying than the sum of its…

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Review of Sausage Party (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Aug 2016

The novelty of a raunchy adults-only cartoon has a naughty charge…

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Review of Nerve (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Aug 2016

Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman set a lively, suspenseful pace, aided by Madeleine Gavin and Jeff McEvoy's razor-sharp editing…

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