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 […]
Antiporno (2017; Sion Sono) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes More electrifying excess from Sono (Tokyo Tribe), this time a collaboration with Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest major film studio. Antiporno is part of a series of feature-length throwbacks to Nikkatsu’s 1970s “Roman Porno” output. In these films, directors received total artistic freedom, […]
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 […]
The Breadwinner (2017; Nora Twomey) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, December 1, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. The Secret of Kells co-directory Twomey makes her solo feature debut with this animated story of an Afghanistan family barely surviving under […]
LA 92 (2017; Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin) GRADE: A- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, November 17, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. The best documentary of the year so far, a harrowing, sweeping, intelligent, dynamic and elegantly constructed montage about the Los Angeles riots of 1992. LA […]
God’s Own Country (2017; Francis Lee) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, November 10, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. Postcard-worthy slow cinema from actor-turned-auteur Lee, a bruising but underwhelming love story set amongst Yorkshire sheep farmers. With his friends […]
