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Review of Hostiles (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 18 Jan 2018

Bale plays hard-bitten terseness in the hammiest manner possible, but as a deranged survivor who joins the caravan, Rosamund Pike delivers…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 18 Jan 2018

Michael Stuhlbarg gives a strong supporting performance as Elio's compassionate father and Hammer is very well-cast, but Chalamet owns the…

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Review of The Post (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Jan 2018

It's as if Spielberg watched Spotlight and thought it might make a good movie someday…

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Review of Father Figures (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2018

Lawrence Sher's direction may be no more than workmanlike, but at least he stays out of everyone's way…

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Review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2018

A miscast and unappealing Rebecca Ferguson as soprano Jenny Lind sinks the movie even further…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 04 Jan 2018

This franchise ran out of steam halfway through the credit crawl on the first movie, and there's been nothing but garbage-in-garbage-out since then…

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Review of All the Money in the World (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 03 Jan 2018

Ridley Scott directs this entertaining but uneven true-life drama…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 03 Jan 2018

The film grows increasingly turgid and tiresome in the second half…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Dec 2017

Guillermo del Toro directs this beautifully designed but clumsily arranged sci-fi love story about a mute janitor who falls for a magical creature…

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Review of Just Getting Started (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Dec 2017

The movie is a ghastly, ramshackle mess, lurching from gag to clunking gag and exacerbated by Barry Peterson's harsh cinematography, making…

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Review of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Dec 2017

The kicks keep coming and the stars have a lot of fun channeling their teenage alter egos…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Dec 2017

Where Abrams left us eager for more, Johnson leaves us sated and willing to wait a couple of years for the next episode…

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Review of The Disaster Artist (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Dec 2017

Stacking the cast with a This is the End-style comedy ensemble, only to have them sit around commenting on Wisseau's follies like they were…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 14 Dec 2017

Gary Oldman blubbers and bellows from under wads of makeup as Winston Churchill in this lifeless biopic…

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Review of Lady Bird (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Dec 2017

Ronan, well on her way to being one of the greatest film actresses of the 21st century, is the movie's second-biggest asset after Gerwig herself,…

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Review of The Star (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Nov 2017

It's harmless enough, but nowhere near as inspiring as it aims to be…

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Review of Wonder (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Nov 2017

The movie's pro-tolerance, anti-bullying message is more than a little ham-handed, but it's redeemed by [Stephen] Chbosky's delicate direction…

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Review of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Nov 2017

The impression, despite Paki Smith's sumptuous Victorian production design, is one of constant, cheesy falsehood and wasted opportunity…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Nov 2017

The structure is so ill-conceived that most of the final half-hour gets devoted to the characters reading handwritten notes that fill in all…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 17 Nov 2017

Branagh lards Haris Zambarloukos' cinematography with gratuitous CGI until it looks like Murder on the Polar Express…

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