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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.

Reviews

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Pierrot le Fou (1965) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Violent rejection of societal and aesthetic norms guided by a Looney Tunes logic, as Godard distracts himself from the familiar lovers-on-the-run story with experiments in color, composition, exuberance and incoherence.” – Dare Daniel Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Metropolis (1927) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Directly or indirectly influencing a century of pop culture from Blade Runner to Diamond Dogs, Lang’s masterpiece continues to amaze and inspire. ” – Dare Daniel Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Paisan (1946) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Rather than simple tales of heroes at war, Rossellini offers bitterness-tinged stories of tenuous brotherhood forged along the Allied path to victory. ” – Dare Daniel Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 1.5/5 EDIT “Not a great idea to put an omnipresent countdown clock in the corner of the screen when the film is this tiresome. It’s a stark reminder of all the time you’re wasting.” – Dare Daniel Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Atropia (2025) 41% 2.5/5 EDIT “While a thematically ambitious effort, the disparate pieces never form a compelling whole, and it often comes off as glib.” – Dare Daniel Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Vagabond (1985) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “A film of purest empathy driven by Sandrine Bonnaire's stunning performance as a drive-less drifter. Bonnaire offers no ego, no sentiment and no holds barred.” – Dare Daniel Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “An unwelcome dose of YA pap aside, Trachtenberg makes another solid entry into the Predator-verse.” – Dare Daniel Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 2.5/5 EDIT “This is Lawrence’s show, and she’s stunning, fearless, exposed, raw, real, unreal, supernatural. It’s powerful and potent stuff in an otherwise empty exercise.” – Dare Daniel Nov 6, 2025 Full Review News From Home (1977) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “A deeply personal movie about real time and real space that makes you consider how frequently movie time and movie space are fudged.” – Dare Daniel Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Wanda (1970) 92% 4.5/5 EDIT “I Wanda, Wanda who...who-oo-ooh, who...who wrote the book of love? Probably not Barbara Loden, who struck the mother Loden of bleakly pathetic romances with her groundbreaking and brilliant 1970 film.” – Dare Daniel Nov 5, 2025 Full Review In the Mood for Love (2000) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Never not in the mood for this sumptuously beautiful yet melancholy and mysterious masterpiece.” – Dare Daniel Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Singin' in the Rain (1952) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Unbelievable the level of suffering that these people went through to create the most exuberantly joyful movie ever made.” – Dare Daniel Nov 5, 2025 Full Review The Headless Woman (2008) 77% 4.5/5 EDIT “A mesmerizing and haunting slow sink into evocative depravity.” – Dare Daniel Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Vampyr (1932) 98% 3.5/5 EDIT “Dreyer never tried to articulate anyone's vision but his own, and his moody horror movie confounded the expectations of audiences that had recently made Dracula (1931) a monster hit.” – Dare Daniel Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Come and See (1985) 90% 5/5 EDIT “An emotionally shattering waking nightmare of war.” – Dare Daniel Oct 30, 2025 Full Review The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 94% 4.5/5 EDIT “Stone-cold beautiful bravura, a singular work inspired by the life of poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova.” – Dare Daniel Oct 30, 2025 Full Review India Song (1974) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Everything has a musty, decaying quality, with characters who haunt their spaces more than they live in them. ” – Dare Daniel Oct 30, 2025 Full Review To Be or Not to Be (1942) 96% 4/5 EDIT “A funny, gutsy piss-take that deftly navigates a tonal minefield.” – Dare Daniel Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Mouchette (1967) 90% 5/5 EDIT “A soul-scouring sojourn to the French countryside, which is apparently not as idyllic as those Expedia ads would have you believe.” – Dare Daniel Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Sambizanga (1973) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Set during the early days of the Angolan War for Independence, Sambizanga is a gripping political statement in the style of The Battle of Algiers.” – Dare Daniel Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Alea's movie exudes vitality from the opening frames, with a hero notable mainly for his wishy-washy lack of commitment to any belief, not a good look in 1960s Cuba.” – Dare Daniel Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Happy Together (1997) 85% 5/5 EDIT “No filmmaker can knock the wind out of you with a single edit like Wong Kar-Wai. ” – Dare Daniel Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Charulata (1964) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “Simplicity and complexity in equal measure and perfect harmony in Charulata, which expertly intertwines the title character's various awakenings.” – Dare Daniel Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Vertigo (1958) 93% 5/5 EDIT “A film about doppelgängers that's a total doppel-banger. Alright, that's terrible, but what's left to say about Hitchcock's spellbinding masterpiece at this point?” – Dare Daniel Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Cries and Whispers (1972) 92% 4.5/5 EDIT “Working in off-brand ivory-white and blood-red, Bergman delivers a blistering chamber drama that lives on a knife's edge of chilling contradictions.” – Dare Daniel Oct 29, 2025 Full Review
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