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Review of The Leisure Seeker (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Apr 2018

There are a handful of nice, intimate moments between Mirren and Sutherland, but this is largely an exercise in rancid quirk…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Apr 2018

If Anderson's blend of clinical skill and warming sadness has always hit your cinematic sweet spot, then the stop-motion animated for you to treasure…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Mar 2018

This turkey is a shoo-in to sweep the Razzie Awards…

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Review of Love, Simon (2018)

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

The movie is enjoyable enough, despite the callow gloss of a 1970s after-school TV special preaching to us about tolerance…

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Review of Thoroughbreds (2018)

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

First-time writer-director Cory Finley has produced the kind of picture that film festival audiences and high-tone critics love to gush over,…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Mar 2018

The contemporary setting of Red Sparrow at least allows a respite from the tacky CGI that usually overwhelms Francis Lawrence's films, but…

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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Mar 2018

Leilo's film is warm and contemplative rather than cold and clinical, with light doses of magical realism and a marvelous lead performance from Vega…

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Review of Annihilation (2018)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Mar 2018

Once again, Garland offers a provocative and reflective take on the apocalypse, with better-than-blockbuster special effects realized on a…

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Review of Every Day (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Mar 2018

The cast is generally good, but Rice's appealing sweetness is the movie's main attraction…

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Review of Game Night (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Mar 2018

McAdams and Bateman are the movie's only real assets; they're slumming, but they're having fun, and it's contagious…

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Review of The Party (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Mar 2018

Cramped and predictable and far less clever than it thinks, The Party feels like it was based on a play that I would also dislike, rather than…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Mar 2018

That novel strain of black empowerment, and a powerhouse supporting cast…

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Review of Early Man (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 28 Feb 2018

Not that the movie doesn't have its charms even for non-soccer-fans-though they may want to duck out for popcorn during the big game…

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Review of The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 16 Feb 2018

The young men do quite well, and Eastwood delivers a polished product with a tightly staged climax…

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Review of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

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

Bening is good as Grahame, but it has practically become an annual ritual for her to excel in something forgettable…

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Review of 12 Strong (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Feb 2018

The movie avoids ruminating on America's Afghan policy, and ends before things get complicated, making it an upbeat movie about a downbeat war…

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Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 25 Jan 2018

As the demanding 1950s fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, the excellent Daniel Day-Lewis may get top billing, but the film belongs to Vicky…

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Review of Forever My Girl (2018)

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

Roe tries for tortured angst, but his character comes off as an unlikeable lump, while young Fortson is saddled with college-age dialogue and…

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Review of The Commuter (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 18 Jan 2018

It's just suspenseful enough to keep us wondering how it'll all turn out…

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Review of Proud Mary (2018)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 18 Jan 2018

Director Babak Najafi gives a reasonable facsimile of the gritty atmosphere of the so-called blaxploitation pictures of the 1970s…

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