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Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Jun 2016

In his gloriously imperfect Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino distills every war movie he's ever seen into one potent, funny, morally…

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Review of Me Before You (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Jun 2016

Claflin has a nice chemistry with his leading lady, and there's a good supporting cast (Janet McTeer, Charles Dance, Brendan Coyle) but it's…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Jun 2016

Its characters are merely single defining characteristics rather than real people; they have nothing, and hence nothing to lose…

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Review of Dark Horse (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Jun 2016

The interviewees are the main attraction…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Jun 2016

The movie is top-heavy with CGI, like icing on a gaudy wedding cake…

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Review of The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Jun 2016

It's harmless enough, as junk goes, but why blow 10 bucks on it when the app is only 99 cents-and you get to play…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 May 2016

Highly respected contemporary mathematicians produced and consulted on the film, so at least they got the math right, if little else…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 May 2016

Crowe and Gosling make a good bottom-feeding team (Gosling especially shows a surprising flair for physical comedy)…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 May 2016

Beckinsale is excellent as the pragmatically lusty Lady Susan, wrapping every blockhead man around her finger and coiling her tongue through…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 May 2016

[It's] an overinflated genre film highly dependent on magnetic performances to hold it together. Swinton is up to the task…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 26 May 2016

Director Nicholas Stoller and four co-writers throw logic to the winds, and they'll do anything for a laugh -- anything, that is, except actually…

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Review of The Meddler (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 May 2016

Scafaria made The Meddler as a tribute to her own mother, but for every moment of cut-to-the-bone truth and sharp wit there is a matching scene…

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Review of Remember (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 May 2016

Plummer does fine work in the lead role, but the supporting players tend to go way over-the-top…

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Review of Remember (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 May 2016

Plummer does fine work in the lead role, but the supporting players tend to go way over-the-top…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 May 2016

Director Jodie Foster grapples reasonably well, probably better than could be expected, with the uneasy mix of comedy and menace in Jamie Linden,…

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Review of Remember (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 May 2016

Plummer does fine work in the lead role, but the supporting players tend to go way over-the-top…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 12 May 2016

Anthony and Joe Russo make a cheerful show of it, giving their gee-whiz comic book audience all they could wish for -- and more…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 May 2016

Their anything-for-a-laugh method benefits from good comic instincts, and the gags come so fast that the duds are swamped by the frequent laugh-out-loud…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 May 2016

Much of Elvis & Nixon plays like an extended rehearsal for a Saturday Night Live skit that never made it to air…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 May 2016

Great fun, with a terrific euro-grunge soundtrack…

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