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Review of Wild Tales (2014)

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

Wild Tales shuffles juvenile amorality and hand-of-God sermonizing into the same deck, but it's perfectly pitched, as though the funniest kid…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

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

Screenwriter Alex Garland makes his directorial debut with this sleek sci-fi chamber play, and he exhibits the visual command of a true filmmaker,…

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Review of Cake (2014)

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

Cake is a so-so Lifetime special and a pretty lousy film…

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Review of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)

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

The film is minimalist but moving, A Separation meets Anatomy of a Murder, a methodical and emotional process film fused with a potent legal…

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Review of Get Hard (2015)

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

There are some good laughs here and there…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 May 2015

A beautifully mounted, fiercely intelligent, bracingly alive literary adaptation that remains an unabashed crowd-pleaser…

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Review of 5 Flights Up (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 May 2015

With any two other stars it might be downright forgettable, but Freeman and Keaton couldn't be forgettable if they tried, and they lift the…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 May 2015

The movie is a near-brilliant nexus of art, craftsmanship and marketing, painting a compellingly optimistic picture of the power of children…

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Review of Unfriended (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 May 2015

The movie doesn't always make sense and isn't terribly scary or suspenseful…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 May 2015

The movie is one long-running battle scene expertly staged and paced by Miller, with a judicious use of CGI that doesn't insult us with the…

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Review of Hot Pursuit (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 May 2015

David Feeney and John Quaintance's script is scattershot and silly (beginning with that sniggering double-entendre title), and Anne Fletcher's…

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Review of Dior and I (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 May 2015

Prêt-à-porter-trained Simons struggles to express himself in an environment of hand-stitched glamour, and the film becomes a cross-generational…

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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 May 2015

The film explores the psychology of female role-play with depth and intelligence, and the performances are outstanding -- Binoche brings her…

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Review of Danny Collins (2015)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Apr 2015

Pacino sinks his gleaming teeth into the role of Danny with a gusto that's charming and infectious…

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Review of Black Sea (2014)

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

Director Kevin Macdonald and writer Dennis Kelly craft a relentless, claustrophobic nail-biting thriller…

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Review of The Loft (2014)

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

As so often in such locked-room whodunnits, the solution is both simple and complicated, and quite satisfying…

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Review of Mommy (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Feb 2015

The film's ostentatiousness never overshadows the brilliantly complex lead performance by Dorval, who runs the gamut from tacky gusto to cynical…

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Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Feb 2015

What a surprise that rather than an uncritical testament to the might of the armed forces, Eastwood delivers this complex, conflicted and profoundly…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Feb 2015

The film's ostentatiousness never overshadows the brilliantly complex lead performance by Dorval, who runs the gamut from tacky gusto to cynical…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Feb 2015

The film's ostentatiousness never overshadows the brilliantly complex lead performance by Dorval, who runs the gamut from tacky gusto to cynical…

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