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Mill Valley Film Festival 41 Wrap-Up and Reviews

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By Daniel Barnes The 41st annual Mill Valley Film Festival kicked off last night with the California debuts of two awards-groveling biopics: Peter Farrelly’s TIFF Audience Award winner Green Book and Matthew Heineman’s A Private War.  Over the next week-and-a-half, celebrities such as Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Maggie Gyllenhaal will breeze […]

“Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (2015; Roger Allers et al.) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes An animated passion project shepherded to the screen by Salma Hayek, the hugely promising Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet arrives in theaters as a decidedly mixed bag. Gorgeous sequences of highly individualized, hand-drawn animation from […]