Blaze (2018: Ethan Hawke) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, September 21, at the. Landmark Embarcadero and Sundance Kabuki in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. Ethan Hawke gives the best performance of the year so far in my favorite film of 2018 so far […]
Madeline’s Madeline (2018; Josephine Decker) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, August 24, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Finally, something with some fucking guts! This is my first experience with the cinema of Josephine Decker (although I hear good things about Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast […]
Support the Girls (2018; Andrew Bujalski) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, August 24, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. Coyote Ugly meets Clerks by way of Linklater and Lizzie Borden, as the put-upon manager and waitresses at a second-rate Hooter’s knockoff […]
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 […]
Generation Wealth (2018; Lauren Greenfield) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, July 27, at the Landmark Clay in San Francisco, the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley and the Regency Cinemas 6 in San Rafael. The Queen of Versailles director and long-time documenter of conspicuous consumption Greenfield creates her […]
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 […]
