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Review of Brotherly Love (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

The movie has a gritty urban atmosphere and the performances are strong -- when writer/director Jamal Hill lets the actors get a word in edgewise…

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Review of The D Train (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

It's a dual portrait of two different but equally unlikeable losers, so the movie is lucky to have Black and Marsden, whose basic likeability…

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Review of The Wedding Ringer (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

Jeremy Garelick has a clever title and an amusing premise, and the movie benefits from the teaming of Hart and Gad…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

Outlandish as it all is, the movie delivers the goods…

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Review of Unfinished Business (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

The most important unfinished business here is Steve Conrad's slapdash script, with its shifting tones, forced jokes and gaping plot holes…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

A warmly incisive comedy of urban manners and foibles, sharply observant yet wise and compassionate, satirical yet oddly sweet…

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Review of '71 (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

The violence in '71 is sudden and devastating and immediate -- you feel it -- and although the characters are often a little light, Demange…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

Both actors are trapped by the rigid banality of their characters, and they fail to manufacture any chemistry -- without that heat, this is…

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Review of Project Almanac (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

Let's be honest -- no gimmick in cinema past, present or future could make this tripe palatable…

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Review of The Longest Ride (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

Robertson and Eastwood are appealing and photogenic, but their romance is callow and trivial compared to Huston and Chaplin's…

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Review of Merchants of Doubt (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

Director Robert Kenner delivers this rote but stirring documentary about the fake experts and pseudo-scientists that are employed by corporations…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

Whedon is pretty much locked into an overarching storyline and a bland house style here, so instead of bucking the system, he dutifully serves…

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Review of The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

This Swedish offering is about as lighthearted and inconsequential as a dark comedy dealing with mass murder and nihilistic destruction can…

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Review of Black Souls (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

While [Black Souls is] clearly the product of [a] talented [director], I never quite connected with [it]…

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Review of The DUFF (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

As in any romantic comedy, star chemistry is essential, and this movie's got it: Whitman and Amell have an easy rapport that probably makes…

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Review of Where Hope Grows (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

DeSanctis is a force of nature, and for the most part this is less of a Bible thumper than a Bible tapper, but it gets downright shameless…

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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

It's an old-fashioned movie in the best sense, beautifully photographed by Andrew Lesnie…

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Review of Spike Island (2012)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

Taking its cue from the sort of pandering nostalgia that usually gets peddled to Baby Boomers, Mat Whitecross' irritating Spike Island follows…

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Review of The Salt of the Earth (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

After an awkward first act, The Salt of the Earth settles into a comfortable rhythm, following Salgado's nomadic career across several continents,…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 May 2015

The result, under the arrhythmic direction of the otherwise talented Elizabeth Banks, is a near-disaster-a comedy that isn't funny and a musical…

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