By Daniel Barnes DANIEL’S TOP TEN FILMS OF 2019 1. Uncut Gems Directors Benny and Josh Safdie double down on the pure rush of their 2017 success Good Time with this adrenaline-soaked thriller. Adam Sandler gives the performance of the year as Howard Ratner, a New York […]
By Daniel Barnes This is the complete ballot that I submitted for the 2019 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awards. We will announce the winners on Monday, Dec. 15. Check out my full rankings of the best films of 2019 HERE. BEST FILMS OF 2019 Uncut […]
Pain and Glory (2019; Pedro Almodóvar) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes Opens on Friday, Nov. 8, at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. For his 21st feature film, the great Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar once again reaches into the inkwell of semi-autobiography. In the quietly enchanting Pain and Glory, […]
Downtown ’81 (2000; Edo Bertoglio) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes Opens on Friday, Nov. 1, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. You can’t slice this thing open without rattling off the rich backstory, so here we go. Swiss director Edo Bertoglio shot Downtown ’81 in the early […]
By Daniel Barnes MVFF42 is in the books. The 42nd annual Mill Valley Film Festival featured the usual mix of awards contenders, pseudo-indies and super-indies. New films from Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodovar and Noah Baumbach made their Northern California debuts. Meanwhile, stars like Kristen Stewart and Olivia Wilde […]
Monos (2019; Alejandro Landres) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, October 4, at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. Brazilian director Landres delivers a powerful experience with this story of child soldiers losing their minds and souls. Monos is equally raw and phantasmagoric, beautiful and ugly. Landres uses every […]
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