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 […]
By Daniel Barnes I have been contributing reviews, feature articles, best-of lists, columns and more to the Sacramento News & Review since 2000. However, I did not graduate to the main review of the Film page until Summer 2013. When I learned that there was an opening for […]
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 […]
American Animals (2018; Bart Layton) GRADE: C By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, June 8, at the AMC Kabuki 8 and the Landmark Embarcadero Center Cinemas in San Francisco. Writer-director Bart Layton follows up his 2012 debut The Imposter, a documentary with dramatic tendencies about an older man pretending to […]
By Daniel Barnes More coffee-fueled palaver about meaningless awards and reductive categorizations? No problemo! Click HERE for Part I and HERE for Part II of the Cramfest, and strap yourself in for a jam-packed Part III. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Love & Mercy ***REWATCH*** (Dir.: Bill Pohlad; GRADE: B+) […]
By Daniel Barnes I’m dedicating the month leading up to the SF Film Critics Circle awards on 12/13 to my End-of-Year Cramfest. It’s my personal War on Xmas – I’ll be screening the awards contenders, catching up on overlooked movies, and rewatching some of my favorites from 2015. […]
