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“Staying Vertical” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Staying Vertical (2017; Alain Guiraudie) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes Alain Guiraudie’s self-contained, cryptic, borderline pornographic, Hitchcock-goes-homoerotic Stranger by the Lake was a jaw-dropping breakthrough in 2013/2014, even though it was the sixth feature film for the 52-year-old French writer-director. Staying Vertical is his highly anticipated follow-up, a […]

“Man from Reno” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Man from Reno (2015; Dave Boyle) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens today at the Sundance Kabuki in San Francisco. This subdued, almost ephemeral, bilingual murder mystery seems designed more for fans of detective fiction than for film noir nuts.  That said, it still possesses a sly potency. […]