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Review of First Man (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Oct 2018

Ultimately, the movie is proficient but unsatisfying -- we leave the theater feeling like we know less about Armstrong than we did going in…

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Review of Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Oct 2018

Writer-director Drew Goddard gets off to a stylish start, with a burst of Tarantino-esque narrative energy and a garishly beautiful retro-'60s…

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Review of Gringo (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Oct 2018

The film has enough energy and nerve to carry you through the underwhelming end…

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Review of 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Oct 2018

The only unique element that Padilha brings to this workmanlike thriller is an unexpected obsession with politically charged interpretive dance…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Oct 2018

It certainly satisfies on a base level, even though Uprising often feels like a straight-to-VOD fugitive…

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Review of The Hate U Give (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

Strikes a perfect balance between coming-of-age story and social-justice-warrior manifesto, never resorting to slogans, clichés or cardboard…

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Review of Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

The novelty has worn off, and Lieber and Sandel offer nothing to replace it…

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Review of A Star Is Born (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

Both leads are fine, albeit one-note, and cinematographer Matthew Libatique supplies some sharp images, but the movie is pervasively musty…

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Review of The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

The whole movie has a loose-limbed, shambling, unpretentious charm, not unlike the matter-of-fact bemusement of Grann's original New Yorker piece…

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Review of The Sisters Brothers (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 10 Oct 2018

Phoenix is very good as the hot-tempered Charlie, but Reilly steals the show as the comparatively gentle Eli, providing this rough-edged film…

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Review of Lizzie (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

Despite all the lurid details and topical relevance, Lizzie is so chilly and inert that it belongs in a whacks museum…

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Review of Smallfoot (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

This animated time-killer is better than it has any right to be-but it's just barely good…

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Review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

This unabashed Harry Potter clone is enjoyable enough, thanks to Black's campy theatricality and Blanchett's sly minimalism…

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Review of Colette (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

Knightley and West head a pitch-perfect cast, and Westmoreland (aided by cinematographer Giles Nuttgens and designer Michael Carlin) flawlessly…

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Review of Night School (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Oct 2018

With six writers (including Hart) and Malcolm D…

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Review of Peppermint (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Sep 2018

Rehashes tropes from better (though not necessarily good) movies…

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Review of The Predator (2018)

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

The film doesn't contain a single thirty-second stretch of coherence throughout its 107-minute running time, to the point that it feels like…

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Review of A Simple Favor (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Sep 2018

An impish throwback to the stylish glam-thrillers of the early 1960s with a 21st century sass to go with all the twists and turns of the plot…

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Review of The Bookshop (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 19 Sep 2018

Writer-director Isabel Coixet paces her tale with subdued dignity that borders at times on a dogged plod, but which makes it all the more effective…

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Review of White Boy Rick (2018)

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

White Boy Rick would have been helped by having a more dynamic lead actor in the title role, but newcomer Richie Merritt barely registers,…

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