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Dan Lybarger

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Biography:

Dan Lybarger has contributed film articles to the Kansas City Star, Nitrate Online, The Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, and PitchWeekly. He has an M.A. in Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a B.A. in English from Ottawa University.

Favorites:

Favorite filmmakers are: Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, Agnieszka Holland, Buster Keaton (I attend a Keaton Festival every year in Iola, KS. This festival takes place seven miles from Keaton's birthplace in Picquay), Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, Peter Weir, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Woody Allen, David Lean, Charlie Chaplin. Favorite Movies: The Apartment, Europa Europa, Life Lessons.

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Location:

Kansas City

Official Website:

http://www.efilmcritic.com

Reviews

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Wolf Man (2025) 50% 3/10 “Whannell keeps pushing his characters into what increasingly seems to be an obligatory danger. ” – Film Threat Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Dandelion (2024) 75% 8/10 “Exceptional because it gets both the technical and emotional details right.” – Film Threat Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% 6/10 “The creativity and daring are abundantly evident, but there is a sense that he’s overlooking his characters as if they are ants, torching them with a magnifying glass and asking us to delight in their misfortunes.” – Film Threat Jul 8, 2024 Full Review Bound (2023) 91% 7/10 “New York has been filmed a lot over the last century and a half, but if Bound is any indication, the city that never sleeps has more promising tales to come.” – Film Threat Feb 12, 2024 Full Review Citizen Weiner (2024) 80% 8/10 “Robbins and Weiner may be playing for the camera rather than for a seat at the legislative table, but at least they resoundingly prove that politics can be anything but soul-crushing and dull.” – Film Threat Jan 22, 2024 Full Review Haunted Mansion (2023) 38% 75/100 “The new Haunted Mansion still feels unsatisfying because it's hard to tell which audience Disney was trying to reach. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jul 28, 2023 Full Review Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) 66% “It's almost as if DreamWorks themselves are admitting they can do better.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) 99% 86/100 “Fremon Craig works well with her young cast and the grownups who accompany them. She also takes potentially heavy subject matter and delivers it in an entertaining and touching manner. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Apr 28, 2023 Full Review How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) 95% “The makers of How to Blow Up a Pipeline have an agenda. They've also managed to make a gripping movie while bellowing from their soapbox.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Apr 21, 2023 Full Review Cocaine Bear (2023) 66% “The humans are interesting enough we care about whether they end up as an ursine lunch. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 24, 2023 Full Review Living (2022) 96% 86/100 “While Nighy may be following in the challenging footsteps of Takashi Shimura's performance, he manages to claim the role for himself.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 3, 2023 Full Review Virtually Heroes (2013) 40% 7/10 “Found plenty of clever ways to poke fun at the conventions of video games.” – Film Threat Jan 30, 2023 Full Review A Man Called Otto (2022) 70% 83/100 “While it is a pleasure to see Hanks and Trevino bring their voices to the material, A Man Called Otto plays like a good cover band replicating a hit. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jan 13, 2023 Full Review Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) 95% “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has more dynamic and interesting characters than most live action films have. Screenwriters Tommy Swerdlow and Paul Fisher make the fearless feline more engaging by taking something away from him.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Dec 30, 2022 Full Review Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) 43% “Because of the cold, rote storytelling, we end up missing Houston's voice instead of the story about her. Maybe it would be better to stream her old songs on Vevo and break out the headphones.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Memories of My Father (2020) 84% “With "Memories of My Father," Trueba achieves a formidable balancing act by balancing Quiquin's sweet memories with the political tension that dominates his hometown.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Dec 10, 2022 Full Review Strange World (2022) 72% 77/100 “Strange World is clearly intended as an eco fable, but its eagerness to make viewers care about the world outside of the theater doesn't excuse it from neglecting basic storytelling.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 29, 2022 Full Review She Said (2022) 88% “Director Maria Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz follow closely in the footsteps of All the President's Men and Spotlight and thankfully understand why those movies worked. Having a worthwhile story to recount doesn't hurt, either.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 19, 2022 Full Review My Policeman (2022) 44% 84/100 “Because the conclusion is obvious, watching My Policeman seems like staring into a crystal ball. At least, the figures inside are worth our attention.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 11, 2022 Full Review Ticket to Paradise (2022) 57% “It was fun to watch Julia Roberts trying to ruin somebody else's nuptials in 1997's My Best Friend's Wedding, but this time around she doesn't have the clever, creative script or even a good reason to spoil a ceremony.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Oct 21, 2022 Full Review Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) 71% “It's often been said that if you must steal a storyline, it's wise to burgle the best. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile almost disproves that assertion.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Oct 7, 2022 Full Review Bros (2022) 89% “Romantic comedies need a heart to go with the funny bone, and Bros thankfully gets that right, too. Stoller makes no effort to hide his attempts to pull on a viewer's heartstrings, but there's no good reason to ask him to stop, either.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Sep 30, 2022 Full Review Don't Worry Darling (2022) 38% 77/100 “Silberman and Wilde have learned some of the right lessons from The Stepford Wives and The Truman Show, but their revelations for some of the anachronisms in the story seems sloppy and underdeveloped.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Sep 23, 2022 Full Review The Woman King (2022) 94% 87/100 “With The Woman King, director Gina Prince-Bythewood explores a neglected corner of history and has a ball doing it. Thanks to her quick pacing and impeccable staging of battle sequences, her enthusiasm is contagious.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Sep 16, 2022 Full Review Maya and the Wave (2022) 100% 9/10 “Maya and the Wave is so graceful and elegant that you can almost forget the Herculean struggle that made it possible.” – Film Threat Sep 13, 2022 Full Review
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