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Review of Las Marthas (2014)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

A unique look at social classism in South Texas and Mexico that asks some valid questions about family lineage…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

Tarantino takes a no-holds-barred approach and delivers another well-written, ultra-violent spectacle masked as a spaghetti western…

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Review of Daddy's Home (2015)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

There are moments around the halfway point where the gags lose steam, but the satisfying mishmash of broad and dry humor does the trick more…

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Review of Argo (2012)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

A solid political spy movie, despite being gift-wrapped a little too neatly…

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Review of Los Wild Ones (2013)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

Director Elise Salomon tackles a few too many issues, which keeps the film from finding a real emotional hook, but when she turns her camera…

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Review of What It Was (2014)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

The drama is formless and a bit sappy at times, but director/writer Daniel Armando's poetic sensibility and tenderness...elevate it just enough…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

The narrative of this series needs a major wake-up-call if it doesn't want to lull audiences to sleep with the same old fantasy plotting and…

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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler has created a three-dimensional character in Oscar Grant that is both flawed and easily relatable…

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Review of Her (2013)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

The most unique script produced in the last five years…

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Review of Killer Joe (2012)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

As the head of this diamondback-rattlesnake-of-a-film, Matthew McConaughey strikes within a sadistic realm very few actors would dare to tread…

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Review of Wild Horse, Wild Ride (2012)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

Spreads the narrative too thin and becomes repetitious over the course of three exhausting months…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

Emily Blunt and Oscar winner Benicio del Toro are terrific, and director Denis Villeneuve keeps the thriller pumping with brutal momentum…

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Review of Cesar Chavez (2014)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

Loses an opportunity to dig deeper inside the man and, instead, follows biopic convention…

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Review of Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

Eccentric and sweet and director/writer Wes Anderson's best live-action contribution since The Royal Tenenbaums…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

The second half of the film devolves into something that resembles tedious, melodramatic daytime TV…

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Review of Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

Amongst the giants this year, this film by first-time director Benh Zeitlin can be overlooked. But without it, true fantasy is lost…

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Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

It's creepy, compelling and asks some interesting questions about the power of human sexuality…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 26 Jan 2018

A heartbreaking and eye-opening look into celebrity culture. Reveals the iconic singer's downfall with admiration and insight…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 25 Jan 2018

Set up almost like a modern-day version of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men - if all the characters in the classic novel were tripping on acid…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 25 Jan 2018

The best comic-book-inspired offering this year - and maybe ever - was the weighty, somber, ultra-violent final chapter in the X-Men's Wolverine saga…

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