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Review of Chef (2014)

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

Favreau's movie is loose-limbed, even a tad aimless, but it's appetizing in more ways than one (you'll probably be famished by the time you…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

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

This one is well-acted but bleaker than usual, thanks to an uninvolving story, a shortage of sympathetic characters, leaden pacing by director…

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Review of Obvious Child (2014)

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

There's a raunchy, female Woody Allen-from-the-1970s vibe to Obvious Child that rings an overfamiliar bell…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2015

Writer-director Dan Gilroy create a compelling portrait of a slick hustler straight out of What Makes Sammy Run…

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Review of Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2015

This affectionate documentary from director Frank Pavich tells the story of that lost film, offering copious storyboards and conceptual art,…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2015

A smart and cozy watch, and very well-acted, especially by the leads…

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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2015

Cumberbatch's masterful performance dominates the movie, inevitably evoking his updated version of [Sherlock] Holmes…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2015

Cumberbatch's masterful performance dominates the movie, inevitably evoking his updated version of [Sherlock] Holmes…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2015

Common decency will not allow me to completely dismiss a film in which a viscerally realistic primate rides a horse down California Avenue…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2015

As Fincher and Flynn peel away layers of their story, a feeling of dread grows; it's like pulling moldy leaves from an artichoke that is rotting…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

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

This is as wildly imaginative and fun as any film you're likely to see this year, even if it is based entirely on corporate synergy…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Jan 2015

The only auteurs guiding the creation of Days of Future Past are the talent agencies that put together the deal…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Jan 2015

A seemingly limitless stream of pure empathy runs through Richard Linklater's transcendental movie event/social experiment/life-affirming headtrip…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 02 Jan 2015

The setup may be high-concept times a thousand, but the obviousness of the symbolism is so inextricably interwoven with the forward momentum…

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Review of Frozen (2013)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Dec 2014

The limber visuals and appealing heroines can't hide the smear of on-the-fly rewrites, as the film frequently loses track of its own moving pieces…

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Review of Shrek 2 (2004)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Dec 2014

The characters are still charming, the animation really is spectacularly smooth and expressive, and the Looney Tunes-style humor and pop-culture…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Nov 2014

The sheer brilliance of Iñárritu's technique fills us with stunned admiration, even as the messy state of Riggan's head and Keaton's taut…

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Review of Dear White People (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Nov 2014

Simien shoots satirical buckshot, missing as often as he hits, and the clunky framing device is pure amateur hour, yet he also displays an…

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Review of Blood Ransom (2014)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Nov 2014

Things are so cheap they didn't even spring for uniforms for the so-called cops; everybody seems to be wearing their street clothes…

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Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Nov 2014

There is something exciting about a film that tries to fill your mind and then blow it, even if it's only filling you full of hot air…

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