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Jim Lane

Jim Lane

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:
Sacramento News & Review
Total Reviews:
1729

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3/5 80% Pitch Perfect (2012) " ... parodies, by faithful imitation, the silly adolescent soap opera of Glee ..." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
4/5 85% End of Watch (2012) " ... breathes new life into the conventions of the cop-buddy movie ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
2/5 77% Dredd 3D (2012) " ... suitably grimy and relentlessly violent." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
3/5 33% Won't Back Down (2012) " ... Gyllenhaal and Davis make a powerhouse team ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
3/5 94% Looper (2012) " ... has an irresistible energy and a don't-give-a-damn unpredictability ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
2/5 43% Hotel Transylvania (2012) " ... another empty-calorie animated feature ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
4/5 81% Seven Psychopaths (2012) " If your cringe threshold is high enough, this is one of the funniest comedies of the year." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
2/5 38% Here Comes the Boom (2012) " ... a bizarre hybrid of Rocky, Warrior and Mr. Holland's Opus ..." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
3/5 89% Frankenweenie (2012) " ... feels like exactly what it is: a padded-out short." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
4/5 95% Argo (2012) " ... a crackling good suspense thriller ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
1/5 62% Sinister (2012) " Writer-director Scott Derrickson does absolutely nothing right." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
3/5 69% Liberal Arts (2012) " ... likeable in its unambitious way." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
3/5 5% Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012) " Rand's detractors will hate the movie as much as they do her, but her fans will be satisfied ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
3/5 83% Detropia (2012) " ... will do little for Motor City tourism." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
2/5 21% Taken 2 (2012) " ... less credible, less suspenseful and less satisfying than it was before." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
3/5 17% The Watch (2012) " ... one of the funniest movies of the year." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
3/5 38% The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) " ... rather solemn whimsy, but hard to dislike ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
2/5 56% The Bourne Legacy (2012) " ... all middle with no beginning -- and, of course, no end, so the franchise can go on." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
3/5 96% The Imposter (2012) " ... both interesting and repellent." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
3/5 58% Sparkle (2012) " ... transfers the 1976 cult hit from 1950s Harlem to '60s Detroit with faults and virtues intact." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
3/5 76% Premium Rush (2012) " ... a lightning-paced, hyper-adrenalized entertainment." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
2/5 86% ParaNorman (2012) " ... not so much creepy as simply unpleasant ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
3/5 48% Hit & Run (2012) " ... a wacky trailer-trash farce ..." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
3/5 58% Red Hook Summer (2012) " ... shimmers with unfocused energy." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
1/5 39% The Possession (2012) " ... a stale and shameless rip-off of The Exorcist ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
3/5 67% Lawless (2012) " ... if you can take it, there's good stuff here ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
3/5 86% Sleepwalk With Me (2012) " ... pleasant entertainment with overtones of personal confession ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
1/5 6% The Cold Light of Day (2012) " ... the kind of shoddy, low-rent stinker the robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000 used to enjoy ripping to shreds." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
5/5 22% The Words (2012) " One of the meatiest movies of the year ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
3/5 84% Arbitrage (2012) " ... a tightly written, sharply acted melodrama with a Tiffany gleam." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
3/5 51% Trouble with the Curve (2012) " ... easy to take star-vehicle entertainment ..." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
2/5 85% The Master (2012) " ... an attractively wrapped but thick and indigestible slab of baloney." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
4/5 69% Ted (2012) " ... just misses being a real classic ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
3/5 56% People Like Us (2012) " ... rises above its Lifetime-channel trappings ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
3/5 80% Magic Mike (2012) " ... the director, the unpredictable Steven Soderbergh, gives the clichés a surface gloss of credibility." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
3/5 77% Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) " ... a sympathetic, even adoring portrait ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
1/5 37% Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) " ... worthless junk, just like the three worthless movies that came before it." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
2/5 43% Step Up 4: Miami Heat (2012) " ... the series rises again to the mediocrity it attained in the first two movies." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
3/5 41% Rock of Ages (2012) " ... the driving beat keeps toes tapping." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
1/5 21% That's My Boy (2012) " ... cheerless vulgarity instead of laughs." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
2/5 34% Lola Versus (2012) " ... at heart it's just a trite and shallow Hollywood rom-com ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
3/5 55% Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) " It's chemistry; sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
3/5 84% Your Sister's Sister (2012) " Such are the pleasures of improv when the players are as sharp and canny as they are here. " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
4/5 93% Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) " ... fairly bulges with quirky hangdog charm ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
3/5 78% Brave (2012) " ... has the customary supple Pixar animation ... [but] the story lacks punch ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
1/5 35% Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) " No, it's not entertainment; it's garbage." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
2/5 73% The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) " ... the movie needs a star at the center of Spider-Man's web. Instead, it has a black hole." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
1/5 78% Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) " ... this one was rotten in 2005 and 2008, and by now it's really beginning to stink." — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 10, 2012
2/5 18% For Greater Glory (2012) " The story deserves a better movie than it gets here ... " — Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jun 10, 2012
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