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Review of Instant Family (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Nov 2018

The movie has amusing moments, but they feel prepackaged with everything but a sitcom laugh track…

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Review of The Grinch (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Nov 2018

The smoothly animated result isn't as dreadful as the Jim Carrey live-action version, but it's almost as wrong-headed…

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Review of The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Nov 2018

Alvarez doesn't let us linger to make sense of it all; he keeps the action set-pieces coming, and if we're never fully engaged, at least we're…

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Review of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Nov 2018

Either desperate rewrites by Tom McCarthy and reshoots with director Joe Johnston taking over from Lasse Hallström didn't help -- or the movie…

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Review of Nobody's Fool (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Nov 2018

Writer-director Tyler Perry throws all kinds of ideas at us, but he never manages to get over the basic problem at the center of his script…

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Review of Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

I said that such James Bond spoofs were an exhausted genre and had worn out their welcome. Now I have to take it back; here's an inspired bullseye…

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Review of Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

A standard musical biopic with all the conventions in place…

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Review of mid90s (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

Mid90s is one of the slightest major releases in recent memory, and although a handful of nice moments point to Hill's potential, none of the…

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Review of Suspiria (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

Guadagnino's flavorless film is less a straight remake than a dreaded homage, with subtext becoming text, the unspoken getting spoken and tantalizing…

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Review of Beautiful Boy (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

Dramatically flat and frankly monotonous. On the plus side, Carell and Chalamet give fearless performances…

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Review of Hunter Killer (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

Muscular direction by Donovan Marsh keeps the action tense and clipping along, compensating somewhat for a tendency of minor characters to…

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Review of Free Solo (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 24 Oct 2018

It was sadistic schlock in 1978 and it's more sadistic and schlockier than ever now…

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Review of The Lady in the Van (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2018

He Lady in the Van offers more fourth wall-breaking narrative devices than a Tarantino fever dream, but since we're never that invested in…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2018

Pixar has set a high bar for films about anthropomorphized critters, inanimate objects, artificial intelligences and abstract concepts, too…

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Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2018

At a certain point, I simply surrendered to The Last Knight. I don't think I had a choice…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2018

A sharp-looking vehicle, even if there's not much going on under the hood…

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Review of Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2018

As a character, Roman J. Israel, Esq. is a non-stop thrill ride of actor choices. As for Roman J…

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Review of Their Finest (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 20 Oct 2018

Two godforsaken hours of buttery drivel smothered in rancid nostalgia…

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Review of The Oath (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Oct 2018

The toothless satire might be less noticeable if the comedy wasn't so similarly gummy, but most of The Oath is rambling and uninspired, mostly…

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