Daniel Barnes

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Oct 13, 2026 4.5/5 A deeply personal film about the human cost of war, with animated characters who contain worlds of emotion. So simple and yet so complex, it’s a film that absolutely wrecks you. Go to Full Review Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 100% 89%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Sep 29, 2026 4.5/5 Everything has been stripped away except for the coded elements. It’s a film of gestures and glances, things suggested but unsaid. It’s a fascinating and original way to tell a story. Go to Full Review Beau travail (1999) 88% 77%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Sep 15, 2026 5/5 Casablanca is the absolute acme of efficiency in Hollywood storytelling and character development. There’s a place for everything and everything in its place. Every line, camera move, shadow and gesture—it all fits together. Go to Full Review Casablanca (1942) 99% 95%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Sep 1, 2026 3.5/5 Rough, urgent and fiercely creative, Born in Flames remains a fascinating film, even if its unrelenting didacticism sometimes blunts its considerable power. Go to Full Review Born in Flames (1983) 89% 58%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Aug 18, 2026 3.5/5 Djibril Diop Mambéty’s rough but remarkable debut film blendsFrench New Wave style, African oral traditions and bursts of surrealism. Go to Full Review Journey of the Hyena (1973) 88% 66%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Aug 4, 2026 4/5 An unorthodox yet strangely reverent take on the story of Jesus. Its modern, documentary-like style is bracing, but with a simplicity that feels classic. Pasolini’s Jesus is confident, laser-focused and ready to get to work dying for his cause. Go to Full Review The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) 89% 86%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Jul 21, 2026 5/5 A magnificent, almost perfect film. Rarely has the geography and character of an entire city been captured so well. For all its revolutionary urgency, the human cost of the violence is never lost on you. Go to Full Review The Battle of Algiers (1966) 99% 95%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Jul 7, 2026 5/5 Ford’s ultimate statement on the West, mythmaking and masculinity, an unusually soulful western about the creation of legends and the destruction of truth. Go to Full Review The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 95% 92%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Jun 23, 2026 4.5/5 A shockingly prescient millennium nightmare about a society slipped off its axis, angrily yearning for a past that may never have existed. Go to Full Review Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) 97% 90%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Jun 9, 2026 5/5 A profound and beautiful film about the mysteries of love, complex in its simplicity and utterly magical. Go to Full Review L'Atalante (1934) 100% 89%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel May 26, 2026 4.5/5 Out of the Past is sensual and bitterly fatalistic, an orgy of style and attitude that remains the epitome of film noir. Go to Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 88% 92%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel May 12, 2026 4.5/5 It's an awkwardly funny and uncomfortably recognizable portrait of loneliness, of being the worst version of yourself for everyone to see. Go to Full Review The Green Ray (1986) 94% 84%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Apr 28, 2026 4.5/5 Tarkovsky’s vivid vision is both unnervingly intimate and overwhelming. It’s about art and faith colliding with the brutal reality of the world. And you see what art can do when everything else is just cruelty. Go to Full Review Andrei Rublev (1966) 96% 93%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Apr 14, 2026 4.5/5 What begins as a slow meditation steadily builds into an audacious action epic that reaches its full power in the transcendently psychedelic final moments. Go to Full Review A Touch of Zen (1971) 97% 83%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Apr 10, 2026 2.5/5 Riz Ahmed is good in the title role, but aside from one show-stopping sequence, this is a monotonous modernization. It's been done before and done better. Go to Full Review Hamlet (2025) 72% - -

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Apr 3, 2026 3/5 Wispy despite weighty themes and built from ephemeral ideas that never quite solidify,Miroirs No. 3 is another intriguing yet dissatisfying drama from Petzold. Go to Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 95% - -

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Apr 3, 2026 3.5/5 Borgli once again manages to draw humor and poignancy out of a scenario that is not the least bit funny or poignant. Go to Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% - -

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Mar 31, 2026 5/5 A formally audacious, righteously blasphemous portrait of American hypocrisies with a mesmerizing turn from Robert Mitchum as the devil in preacher's clothing. Go to Full Review The Night of the Hunter (1955) 93% 90%

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Mar 20, 2026 2.5/5 The blood finally starts splattering after nearly 40 minutes of recap and setup, but it's never more than a pale retread of the mildly entertaining original. Go to Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 75% - -

Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Mar 20, 2026 3/5 A consistently entertaining, technically impressive, glibly effective crowd-pleaser with a hollow center. Go to Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% - -