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Review of The Wife (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Sep 2018

The quasi-august The Wife contributes little else to the subgenre besides two very good performances and a multitude of credibility-straining…

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Review of Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Sep 2018

A film of such cornball earnestness that you almost long for the fetishized torture of Jolie's film…

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Review of The Little Stranger (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 09 Sep 2018

Neither a horror movie nor a ghost story, it's just a lot of atmosphere and earnest acting looking in vain for a story…

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Review of Operation Finale (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Sep 2018

Unfortunately, the movie lacks the ring of truth because much of it isn't... False details abound, clouding the effect of decent performances…

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Review of Juliet, Naked (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Sep 2018

Jesse Peretz's direction smooths out any wrinkles in the text, and the movie draws a nervous, energetic charm from Byrne's performance…

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Review of The Happytime Murders (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Aug 2018

The puppet work is brilliant, the jokes (however tasteless) are often funny, and McCarthy and Barretta have a strong chemistry…

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Review of Puzzle (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Aug 2018

Macdonald has always been a welcome onscreen presence, and Puzzle offers the actress maybe her meatiest movie role yet…

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Review of A-X-L (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 29 Aug 2018

Didn't anyone notice that the story made no sense, that it was just remnants of Short Circuit, E.T., WarGames and other better movies, strung…

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Review of Alpha (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Aug 2018

Give director Albert Hughes an A for ambition, but a C for cornball achievement…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Aug 2018

Chu's career has been a tad uneven in the past, but he shows a sure hand here, drawing fine performance from a large ensemble - especially…

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Review of Slender Man (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Aug 2018

This tawdry, shoddy stinker is a movie of rare and total incompetence, literally unwatchable thanks to some of the worst cinematography in…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Aug 2018

It's entertaining and angrily thought-provoking, with Lee at the top of his game - even if he can't stay off the soapbox and piles on too many…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 15 Aug 2018

Essentially a PG-13 version of Alexandre Aja's Piranha 3D with fewer jokes and even less of a point, The Meg is a faceless, lifeless, workmanlike,…

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Review of Christopher Robin (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Aug 2018

Earnest acting, brilliant CGI and a few good lines can't conceal that the script is a half-hour's worth of stale whimsy dragged out to 104…

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Review of The Darkest Minds (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Aug 2018

If you've seen The Hunger Games, Divergent or The Maze Runner, there are no surprises in this low-rent X-Men knockoff…

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Review of The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Aug 2018

Kunis has a nice flair for comedy, but she gets shoved aside by McKinnon - who, like the movie at large, is obnoxious and funny in a roughly…

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Review of Dog Days (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Aug 2018

The movie's heart is in the right place, and like a good doggie we forgive it if it doesn't always know what it's doing…

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Review of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 Aug 2018

There are some pretty clever turns along the way, the look is bright and shiny enough to keep toddlers from getting restless, and there are…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Aug 2018

It's as polished, precision-tuned and effective a piece of filmmaking as you're likely to see all year long…

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Review of The Equalizer 2 (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 25 Jul 2018

Washington's implacable charisma and Fuqua's robust command of pace and style are desperately needed because writer Robert Wenk is back too,…

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