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3/5
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72%
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Fuel (2008) |
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 13, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Cidade dos Homens (City of Men) (2007) |
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 13, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
The Joneses (2010) |
"
Even with decent turns from the leads, and a usefully soulful one from Gary Cole as a neighbor inclined to do the proverbial keeping up, the film can't always manage to justify itself as an actual movie instead of merely a clever concept."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 12, 2011
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|
3/5
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91%
|
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) |
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 4, 2011
|
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4/5
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93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
A slight but bittersweet tale about a neurotic lesbian couple whose formerly anonymous sperm donor becomes their potential home wrecker."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 29, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
It's a fine idea to turn Affleck's squawky self-assurance into a lens on sociopathy, but Winterbottom and co-writer John Curran seem neither to examine nor to indulge, and the result feels strangely inconsequential."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 22, 2010
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|
3/5
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81%
|
Despicable Me (2010) |
"
It's also just silly and funny, and doesn't that warm your cynical heart even just a little bit?"
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) |
"
It's just too bad a movie sharp enough to rip through flesh and helicopter blades and nuclear-reactor smokestack walls has to feel so disappointingly dull."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 7, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
I Am Love (2010) |
"
Swinton makes short work of stuff like this. Without her, Guadagnino would not have a movie, but that's reason enough to be glad he does."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Please Give (2010) |
"
Writer-director Nicole Holofcener seems to get better with every film, and now she's cruising along the well-trodden path of neurotic New Yorker comedy-drama with grace and comely confidence."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) |
"
More or less what you'd expect: charitable, shrill, redundant, hit-and-miss funny."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Date Night (2010) |
"
Thank goodness, then, that the well-paired leads are as charming and, yes, relatable, as ever. They're not really boring, even if the movie is."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010) |
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Harry Brown (2010) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
No One Knows About Persian Cats (Les Chats Persans) (2010) |
"
If the whole enterprise seems underdeveloped, that's obviously in part a symptom of the system it gently but resoundingly critiques."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Splice (2010) |
"
It's not quite the subversive cult-movie romp it might have been, but transgenderism, incest and bestiality all at once has to count for something."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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|
3/5
|
92%
|
Vincere (2010) |
"
It's all a grand and flashy affair -- but also weirdly prone to the incoherence, redundancy and bullying dehumanization that characterized the political history it presumes to critique."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
18%
|
Princess Ka'iulani (2010) |
"
Historically fanciful and dramatically doltish."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Solitary Man (2010) |
"
This lucid and darkly comic character study gives us Michael Douglas in top form."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Iron Man 2 (2010) |
"
Don Cheadle, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell and again Gwyneth Paltrow are gladly on hand, but only Robert Downey Jr. can so comfortably guide us through the conspicuous outlay."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 20, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Panique au village (A Town Called Panic) (2009) |
"
Aubier and Patar would have us believe that Panic really can be reduced to child's play, which just makes it seem all the more like a place worth visiting."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 20, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Mother and Child (2010) |
"
The leads have excellent support from Jimmy Smits, Cherry Jones, Shareeka Epps and S. Epatha Merkerson-plus, that most welcome rarity, a subtle turn from Samuel L. Jackson."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 7, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Le Couperet (2005) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 6, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
The Back-up Plan (2010) |
"
The premise alone might induce vomiting."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) |
"
It's a colorful cocktail of subversiveness, self-seriousness, wonder, horror and joy."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 16, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
28%
|
Clash of the Titans (2010) |
"
Here comes director Louis Leterrier and his team of mercenary screenwriters to make sure a dated, lumbering mytho-fantastical clunker from 1981 gets a bland, moronic, computer-enhanced warming over."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 2, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
96%
|
Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009) |
"
It's a story good enough to withstand the conventional documentary formula of archive footage and talking heads -- and maybe even good enough to withstand a few ill-advised sprinkles of hokey music, animation and re-enactments."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Apr 1, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Greenberg (2010) |
"
Baumbach is as perceptive about aimlessness as he is adept at offhandedness; whether these gifts are ideally complementary may have to remain an open question."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Mar 26, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
The Eclipse (2010) |
"
It's a film of measuredness and maturity, and a fine one to curl up with."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Mar 26, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
North Face (Nordwand) (2010) |
"
With knuckles alternately white from suspense and black from frostbite, the alpinists get progressively harder to tell apart. But the most compelling character, for all its brutal enormity, always was the mountain."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Mar 11, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
The Ghost Writer (2010) |
"
The movie's masterful control -- from its elegantly foreboding opening to the mordant glee of a striking final shot -- is pure Polanski."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Mar 11, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
"
It may be grim, but ultimately it's a story of survival, both topical and timeless."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
The Art Of The Steal (2010) |
"
[Argott's] film is vain, unbalanced, illogical, overstated and damn compelling."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
18%
|
Valentine's Day (2010) |
"
Too cocooned in its own shiny little Hollywood world to be called cynical, but in no genuine way romantic or comedic either."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Feb 12, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
How moved you are by the hidden grace of getting by in the gutter probably will depend how well you tolerate a poignant/laughable late scene of mother and daughter coming to terms by dancing together to Nas."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jan 15, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
Youth in Revolt (2010) |
"
It's odd and fun watching Cera dip into this peculiar range of voguish deadpan profanity."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jan 8, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"
Gilliam's paean to the imagination seems to lack imagination."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 25, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
The Young Victoria (2009) |
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"
Before adding to the pre-existing heap of critical disdain for Peter Jackson's take on Alice Sebold's much-adored 2002 novel, is it possible to admit the book might have been a tad overrated?"
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
Brothers (2009) |
"
The director is Jim Sheridan, also of In the Name of the Father and Some Mother's Son, so at least the family dynamics come naturally."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 10, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Invictus (2009) |
"
Thing is, it all actually happened."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 10, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 10, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
Ambitious [and] unnervingly timely."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
The Messenger (2009) |
"
It's worth seeing for Foster's performance anyway, and for a brief and excellent one from Steve Buscemi as a mourner."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Nov 13, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"
Heslov leaves his deadpan-preening actors with nowhere to go. Thus, like the shaggy, stubborn subjects of their daffy telekinetic experiments, they mostly stand around chewing their own cud."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Amelia (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 23, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
La Nana (The Maid) (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
12%
|
Couples Retreat (2009) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
The Damned United (2009) |
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 9, 2009
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