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Review of The Peanuts Movie (2015)

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

The movie is a near-total dud, endless at 93 minutes, useful only as an intro to the strip for the benefit of those who have been in a coma…

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Review of Love the Coopers (2015)

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

Grudges get massaged, secrets revealed, resentments flaunted, all punctuated with lame comedy and ending in the inevitable group hug…

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Review of Dancin': It's On! (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Nov 2015

The script by David A. Prior and director David Winters limply recycles bits of Dirty Dancing, Flashdance and other supposed classics of the 1980s…

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Review of Quantum of Solace (2008)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Nov 2015

Director Marc Forster doesn't skimp on action-intensive set pieces, but doesn't stage them very coherently or compellingly either; Quantum…

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Review of All Things Must Pass (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Oct 2015

Hanks and Leckart tap into a latent nostalgia for Tower's free-and-easy heyday, and the movie is an intensely bittersweet experience for anyone…

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Review of Jem and the Holograms (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Oct 2015

The movie is trite, cheap and shoddy, designed to be watched on an iPhone instead of in a theater-plus, there's no way this assortment of bland…

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Review of The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Oct 2015

Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Michael Caine and Diesel are all wasted -- and so is our time…

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Review of Rock the Kasbah (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Oct 2015

Director Barry Levinson gives the movie a gritty veneer of realism and sun-baked menace, but Mitch Glazer's script is limp, unconvincing and…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2015

Director Guillermo del Toro (who co-wrote with Matthew Robbins) serves up an amusing, sometimes hilarious parody of a Victorian Gothic horror…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2015

Spielberg nicely captures the aura of frosty suspicion at the heart of the Cold War…

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Review of Steve Jobs (2015)

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

Michael Fassbender oozes narcissistic charm as Jobs, giving a strong performance without ever fully inhabiting the character, and he's given…

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Review of Goosebumps (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Oct 2015

Rob Letterman's surprisingly sprightly direction deftly walks the tightrope between comedy and genuine scares -- just the way Stine's books do…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Oct 2015

Goodnight Mommy conjures cinematic references ranging from Michael Haneke to Georges Franju, and there are a number of powerful images and…

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Review of Freeheld (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Oct 2015

The story is righteous and Moore and Page are strong (as is Michael Shannon as Moore's police partner), all to the movie's credit…

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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Oct 2015

99 Homes passes inspection as an emotional tour of the housing crisis, but as a drama it's structurally unsound…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2015

Tthe film would be unimaginable without the vivid and tactile cinematography of Roger Deakins, the bruising Johann Johannsson score and the…

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Review of He Named Me Malala (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2015

We get a few glimpses of Malala the hormonal teenager behind Malala the Nobel Peace Prize winner, but this rarely feels like anything more…

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Review of Sleeping with Other People (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2015

Headland writes the standard-issue surplus of subplots and scene-hogging supporting characters into the script, but a loose vibe and a cast…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Oct 2015

Urbane yet never too serious, and beautifully shot by Roger Deakins, this all seems a good fit for director Sam Mendes, who's made his career…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Sep 2015

It's a film that respects the concept of intelligence; I just wish it respected my intelligence…

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