The Sacrifice (1986; Andrei Tarkovsky) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Thursday, January 11, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco and at the PFA in Berkeley. Full disclosure: although the perfectly washed-out colors of Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice have been given a faithful 4K restoration, my viewing experience was […]
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 […]
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 […]
A final awards season observation before we flush this turd of a year down the toilet: Critics groups and other end-of-year awards-giving organizations don’t honor the best so much as they honor the most. In other words, the award for best acting is really an award for the […]
Phantom Boy (2016; Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. The New York-based independent distributor GKIDS is becoming as sure a sign of quality animated cinema as Pixar or […]
