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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Dec 2015

There's a lot to like on a conceptual level, but the execution is one-note and monotonous…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Dec 2015

There's a lot to like on a conceptual level, but the execution is one-note and monotonous…

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Review of Legend (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Dec 2015

As Reggie's emotionally fragile wife, Emily Browning is an oasis of sympathy amid the squalor, the only person in the movie we really give…

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Review of Victor Frankenstein (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 03 Dec 2015

Director Paul McGuigan and screenwriter Max Landis possess an ambition far beyond their range, attempting to graft together pieces of gothic…

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Review of Creed (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 03 Dec 2015

Creed proves just good enough to be disappointing…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

A taut story well-told, suspenseful despite the fact that the world knows how it all turned out, and energized by an authentic sense of the…

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Review of The 33 (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

This is the rare film that combines the narrative thrust and suspense of an Anderson Cooper 360 episode with the shameless schmaltz and racially…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

Part 2 is supposed to be the emotional crescendo to an epic love triangle, but due a complete lack of chemistry between Lawrence and her callow…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

Expertly directed by John Crowley and adapted (equally well) by Nick Hornby from Colm Toibin's novel, this is one of the smallest, most intimate…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

Expertly directed by John Crowley and adapted (equally well) by Nick Hornby from Colm Toibin's novel, this is one of the smallest, most intimate…

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Review of Trumbo (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

It's a great story…

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Review of Secret in Their Eyes (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Dec 2015

Ray builds an effective aura of menace and frustrated justice, with fine acting all around…

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Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Nov 2015

The film possesses a wide-eyed, Nancy Drew sincerity that's hard to resist…

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Review of Room (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Nov 2015

Brie Larson stands on the shoulders of her 2013 film Short Term 12 and establishes herself as one of the top craftspeople in her trade, laying…

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Review of Heist (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Nov 2015

Echoes of better movies abound in Stephen Cyrus Sepher and Max Adams' screenplay, mixed with an illogic entirely their own…

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Review of My All American (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Nov 2015

Michael Reilly Burke and Robin Tunney are good as Steinmark's parents, while as Steinmark's devoted high-school sweetheart, Sarah Bolger makes…

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Review of Burnt (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

Cooper delivers the goods right enough, with help from Daniel Bruhl as his business partner and Sienna Miller as his sous-chef-cum-love-interest…

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Review of Spectre (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

Saving the day (well, more or less) are the assets: Craig and Fiennes (naturally), Lea Seydoux as a particularly appealing Bond girl, and Christoph…

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Review of Miss You Already (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

[The] script has the excruciating familiarity and predictability of a gal-pal tearjerker we've seen a hundred times already; all that's missing…

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Review of Suffragette (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Nov 2015

Under Sarah Gavron's firm direction, Edward Grau's gritty cinematography and the sometimes murky accents (to American ears) add an aura of…

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