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Daniel Barnes

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Biography:

Daniel Barnes is a Sacramento-based film critic and host of the Dare Daniel podcast, as well as a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. His work has appeared in the Sacramento News & Review and other print and online publications across the country.

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Sullivan's Travels (1941) 100% 5/5 “Sullivan’s Travels offers itself up as a meta-resolution to its own conundrum, deftly blending madcap comedy, non-didactic social commentary, and even "a little sex" in the form of Veronica Lake.” – Dare Daniel Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Limit (1931) 100% 4/5 “Mário Peixoto's eerie and experimental silent movie was long thought lost, but a relatively recent restoration has exposed it to a new generation of cinephiles.” – Dare Daniel Sep 22, 2024 Full Review In a Lonely Place (1950) 96% 5/5 “The jaded and cynical flipside to the lovingly ecstatic portrait of Hollywood mythmaking offered by Singin’ in the Rain, Nicholas Ray’s is a bleak yet sensual film noir that refuses to indulge in any cliched genre trappings. ” – Dare Daniel Sep 22, 2024 Full Review Rashomon (1950) 98% 5/5 “The fourth story is seemingly the most objective of them all, and it's probably the closest to the truth. But even in that story, there are big holes. Everyone has something to hide. ” – Dare Daniel Nov 14, 2023 Full Review Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) 28% 1.5/5 “Despite the beautiful locale and an impressive cast, we’re never given a compelling reason to care about any element of this tedious and soulless awards-grubber. Even the mandolin doesn’t matter!” – Dare Daniel Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Jiu Jitsu (2020) 27% 1/5 “Cage goes Obi-Yawn Kenobi as a neo-hippie martial arts mentor, but cedes the lead to Canadian stuntman, martial artist and charisma black hole Alain Moussi. Jiu Jitsu comes up short on every level, especially in the omnipresent fight scenes. ” – Dare Daniel Sep 19, 2023 Full Review Trespass (2011) 9% 1.5/5 “A mindlessly perfunctory and progressively annoying 1A thriller that barrages you with standoffs, fake-outs, double-crosses and twists, twists, twists!” – Dare Daniel Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Left Behind (2014) 0% 1/5 “Cage has little to do but somehow manages to do less with it.” – Dare Daniel Aug 23, 2023 Full Review Sonny (2002) 21% 1/5 “Cage the director makes as many baffling decisions as Cage the actor, but the effect is significantly less entertaining. Sonny is low-lighted by a full-tilt boogie turn from an impossibly brassy Brenda Blethyn that simply took my "Bleth" away. ” – Dare Daniel Aug 8, 2023 Full Review Vampire's Kiss (1989) 63% 3.5/5 “Cage makes more choices than E-40, all of them “Yup,” and the result is a feature-length supercut of classic Cage freakouts.” – Dare Daniel Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% 3.5/5 “If nothing else, Oppenheimer confirms Nolan's status as the ultimate "chalkboard director." He inevitably gives us scenes in which someone flips over a chalkboard to dumb down complex ideas for their fellow geniuses onscreen and us idiots in the audience.” – Dare Daniel Jul 22, 2023 Full Review Two of a Kind (1983) 18% 1/5 “It’s a movie forgotten by time, and I look forward to forgetting it myself.” – Dare Daniel Nov 15, 2022 Full Review The Exorcist III (1990) 58% 3.5/5 “Blatty crafts a shockingly effective slow creep that is unfortunately undermined by an over-the-top fan service ending.” – Dare Daniel Nov 3, 2022 Full Review Hocus Pocus (1993) 41% 1/5 “This sloppily written, egregiously unfunny Halloween comedy about three Stooges-esque witches somehow became a beloved holiday tradition.” – Dare Daniel Oct 18, 2022 Full Review Strait-Jacket (1964) 89% 3.5/5 “Strait-Jacket is a middling Psycho meets Gaslight proto-slasher that telegraphs its plot twists more than Western Union. But it’s elevated by Joan Crawford’s remarkably possessed and highly physical turn as an ax murderess returning home from the asylum.” – Dare Daniel Oct 8, 2022 Full Review The Next 365 Days (2022) 0% 1/5 “Endless, pointless and utterly lacking in any new story developments, The Next 365 Days offers even less than its vapid predecessors.” – Dare Daniel Sep 21, 2022 Full Review Ryan's Babe (2000) 3/5 “This dimwitted yet bizarrely Rohmer-ian road trip movie gets the conventions of filmmaking so wrong that it forces you to question the value and meaning of doing it right.” – Dare Daniel Sep 21, 2022 Full Review Grunt! The Wrestling Movie (1985) 2/5 “After an amusing first five minutes, the film quickly becomes a chore. ” – Dare Daniel Sep 21, 2022 Full Review An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1997) 8% 1/5 “Joe Eszterhas’ lame, career-killing non-movie is 85 minutes of an over-validated, out-of-touch, inexplicably bitter screenwriter grinding an ax and making O.J. jokes.” – Dare Daniel Aug 9, 2022 Full Review Let There Be Light (2017) 27% 1/5 “The film stars Kevin Sorbo as Sol Harkens, a world-famous atheist lecturer with all the stereotypical supermodel and sports car trappings of the anti-faith debate circuit.” – Dare Daniel Jul 28, 2022 Full Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) 38% 1.5/5 “This 2016 sequel is a big empty nothing constantly recapping its own empty nothingness.” – Dare Daniel Jul 12, 2022 Full Review Saturn 3 (1980) 31% 1.5/5 “The film assembles an amazing armada of above-the-line talent for a passionless, murky and uninspired Adam and Eve in space parable.” – Dare Daniel Jun 28, 2022 Full Review Biker Boyz (2003) 22% 1.5/5 “This underdeveloped outline of a movie concerns motorcycle hustlers striving to become the “King of Cali” for reasons we can never know.” – Dare Daniel Jun 14, 2022 Full Review 365 Days: This Day (2022) 0% 1/5 “365 Days: This Day distances itself from the sex-trafficking-as-courtship ethos of its predecessor, yet somehow emerges as an even more loathsome and vapid entity.” – Dare Daniel May 31, 2022 Full Review Viva Knievel! (1977) 14% 2/5 “Its as moth-eaten a movie as youll ever see, with only the messianic egomania of its star to differentiate it from a thousand other duds.” – Dare Daniel May 3, 2022 Full Review
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