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Review of Mother's Day (2016)

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

Smug, cloying, shameless, false and sickly-sweet…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

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

For all of the arms-crossed ill will that the premise engenders, writer-director Tom Tykwer has enough conviction and verve to hold your interest…

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Review of Ratchet & Clank (2016)

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

How did this junk ever escape from the Cartoon Network…

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Review of Union Bound (2019)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Apr 2016

This low-budget historical drama (reportedly based on the diary of a real Civil War veteran) swings back and forth between being earnestly…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 27 Apr 2016

Like its predecessor, it's too dark and doomy to be any fun, and this time any link to the Brothers Grimm is tenuous indeed-it amounts to dropping…

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Review of Hardcore Henry (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

It's a commendable technical tour de force, but it wears thin eventually; the constant bloodletting becomes oppressive, the story is more trouble…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

Cheadle does fine work as the desiccated and unstable Davis, but as a director, his visual attempts to match the fiery cool of Davis' music…

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Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

Jon Favreau directs with style, and Sethi is a real discovery…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

Once our diffident hero begins dismantling and destroying things-smashing his old life to build a new one-we begin to suspect that Sipe and…

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Review of Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver's script has its preachy side, but with an endearing mixture of idealism and cynical humor, and the cast is packed…

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Review of Criminal (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

The script by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg becomes more preposterous by the minute, but entertainingly so, and director Ariel Vroman has…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

Did they set out to make an even worse movie than 2014's Tammy? Well, they did-crude, cruel, coarse and laughless…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

The movie is good fun, with Linklater's trademark dizzy, sparkling R-rated dialogue and, like Dazed and Confused 23 years ago, a soundtrack…

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Review of The Boss (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

Did they set out to make an even worse movie than 2014's Tammy? Well, they did-crude, cruel, coarse and laughless…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

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

The result is ugly in every sense of the word -- grimy, incoherent and a stupefying bore; everybody looks like they need a bath and the movie…

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Review of The Bronze (2016)

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

The script by Melissa Rauch and Winston Rauch is profane, raunchy and dirty-funny... But it's also sweet and warm (under its surface crust)…

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Review of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

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

Under Kirk Jones' laissez faire direction, the reunited cast shows such gusto that as before, resistance is futile…

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Review of Grimsby (2016)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 31 Mar 2016

There are the expected fish-out-of-water beats and over-the-top gross-out gags, and the peripheral characters in this world feel like thinly…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

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

One of the best movies of the year so far -- a riveting, white-knuckle thriller to rank with the best of Hitchcock, and an examination of the…

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Review of Allegiant (2016)

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

The cheesy visual effects look state-of-the-art for 1968…

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