Upside Down (2013; Juan Solanas) GRADE: C- By Daniel Barnes *NOTE: This is the spec review that I wrote when I applied to become the Sacramento News & Review film critic in July 2013. It never appeared in any form until now. Look for my list of the Top […]
Damsel (2018; David Zellner and Nathan Zellner) GRADE: C By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, June 29, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. I was thoroughly under the sway of David Zellner’s 2015 breakthrough movie Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, I’m a huge fan […]
By Daniel Barnes In addition to all of my other freelance writing work, I penned roughly 200 movie reviews in the calendar year 2017. Whatever you think of the results, I worked on hard on that shit (I did!), so before all this work gets swept into the […]
BEST ACTRESS Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird BEST ACTOR Robert Pattinson, Good Time Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread Timotheé Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name Keanu Reeves, John […]
In recent years, I spent the first two weeks of October covering the Mill Valley Film Festival . The festival celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, honoring the gamut of independent film, from star-heavy productions with awards in their sights (Sean Penn, Greta Gerwig and Andrew Garfield were […]
By Daniel Barnes When you add up my weekly reviews in the Sacramento News & Review, my work here at E Street Film Society, and my contributions to other print and online publications, I penned nearly 200 published movie reviews in 2016. Whatever the results, I worked hard […]
