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Review of Adaptation. (2002)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Some parts of the film are classic subversions of Hollywood convention that are intriguing by themselves but don't quite gel as a whole…

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Review of 28 Weeks Later (2007)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Certainly scary and nerve-wracking, but it's also ham-fisted and monotonous; to call Fresnadillo et al…

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Review of The Bourne Identity (2002)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Farfetched plotting nearly capsizes this globe-trotting thriller but director Doug Liman certainly keeps the international intrigue and testosterone…

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Review of Undertow (2004)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The actors grapple manfully with the ersatz rural poetry of the dialogue, but Green's pacing is slow and self-indulgent, and the action often…

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Review of Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

A few touching and surprising moments aside, it all feels a little prefab, with family dysfunction as the indie version of a high concept…

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Review of Swing Vote (2008)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The whole enterprise, including Costner's uneven performance, does get better and more absorbing as it develops. But not enough to be meaningful…

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Review of Memento (2000)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Writer-director Christopher Nolan toys with our minds as each scene ends where the previous scene began in a sort of tidal regression and progression…

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Review of Ghost Rider (2007)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Johnson might have diverted some of his CGI budget to hire a writer to come up with a story with some internal logic -- then he could match…

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Review of Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The computer animation of the two cats is once again excellent, but the novelty has worn off…

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Review of Old School (2003)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The lead males give impressively modulated performances that keep the laughs flowing as all hell breaks loose…

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Review of House of the Dead (2003)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

This is the first live-action horror movie based on a video game that I've ever seen in which the game's animation is actually used as a repeated…

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Review of eXistenZ (1999)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

It's a disturbing, disorienting sensation -- puzzles within puzzles, games within games -- that continues right up to the last shot…

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Review of Once (2009)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

It has its own peculiar naturalism, a kind of lo-fi, lovelorn charm…

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Review of DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Yuen's propensity for impossible computer-generated slow-mo combat action wears thin…

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Review of High Fidelity (2000)

By Bob Grimm (315) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

I can't see how anyone would not like this film…

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Review of The Fall (2006)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The Fall dazzles with its stampede of set pieces but really scores with the tender, organic-seeming rapport between Pace and Untaru…

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Review of Delta Farce (2007)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Whatever your pet sensitivity -- the military, rednecks, gays, Mexicans -- this movie is an equal-opportunity denigrator…

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Review of Marci X (2003)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

There's a tawdry, self-congratulatory air about the film that leaves a bad taste…

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Review of Deliver Us From Evil (1975)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Berg's intuitively right ratio of personal and analytical material, her implied belief in transcendence of horrific demoralization, shows a…

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Review of Deliver Us from Evil (2009)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Berg's intuitively right ratio of personal and analytical material, her implied belief in transcendence of horrific demoralization, shows a…

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