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 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 […]
