Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Daniel Barnes

Tomatometer-approved critic
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

Movies TV Shows
Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) 100% 5/5 EDIT “All the ambiguities and contradictions of life, the small and the large, the universal and the specific, all contained within this seemingly simple story of a young boy trying to protect his classmate.” – Dare Daniel Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 2.5/5 EDIT “It all sits on the most medium level of meat and potatoes genre fare without ever doing anything good, bad or weird enough to risk that watchable yet forgettable status. ” – Dare Daniel Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 3/5 EDIT “This self-conscious return to form for Raimi offers two excellent performances and plenty of sick fun, although a little more grounding in reality and a little less ripping out chunks of brain might have made it feel less one-dimensional.” – Dare Daniel Jan 30, 2026 Full Review 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
No Reviews Yet
Load More