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Review of The Descendants (2011)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 30 Dec 2018

Much more dramatic than his previous films, writer/director Alexander Payne still finds a way to fuse the dark comedic moments of his script…

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Review of The Social Network (2010)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 30 Dec 2018

David Fincher's internet epic is an incisively written and impressively controlled biopic where captivating legal drama meets new-media ambition…

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Review of Tyrannosaur (2011)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 30 Dec 2018

With a story of redemption at the center of its cold, black heart, this independent drama from the U.K…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 30 Dec 2018

For audiences who are patient with meticulously paced narratives, the spy story is an intelligent, mature and riveting piece of filmmaking…

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Review of Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 30 Dec 2018

Contrary to popular belief, The Muppets wasn't the best Muppet movie this year…

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Review of Black Swan (2010)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 30 Dec 2018

Natalie Portman has never been better than in this stunning and unnerving film that examines destructive ambition and what someone will sacrifice…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 30 Dec 2018

This ambitious dark comedy featuring a noteworthy turn by actor Michael Keaton is guided by a whip-smart, witty and self-aware script…

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Review of The Kids Are All Right (2010)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 30 Dec 2018

Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko gives so much depth and realism to this modern-day-family dramedy, you can feel the love pouring out of her for each…

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Review of Private Life (2018)

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

Director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tamara Jenkins has crafted a genuinely touching and humorous human narrative about a husband and…

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Review of Bumblebee (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 19 Dec 2018

As the first spinoff to come out of the Transformers movie franchise, Oscar-nominated director Travis Knight has managed to distinguish Bumblebee…

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Review of Ben Is Back (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 19 Dec 2018

A satisfying albeit slight story about a drug-addicted teenager who returns unexpectedly to his family…

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Review of Welcome to Marwen (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 19 Dec 2018

The blurred lines between reality and imagination make for a tonal dilemma the film is unable to solve…

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Review of Aquaman (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 19 Dec 2018

If Aquaman has anything going for it, it's the fact that it fully embraces just how ridiculous it is…

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Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 12 Dec 2018

An acerbic and abrasively funny period piece featuring three of the best female performances of the year…

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Review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for Remezcla (8) on 12 Dec 2018

It won't do for Latinos what Black Panther did for the African-American community earlier this year from a cultural perspective, but the highly…

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Review of Vox Lux (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 12 Dec 2018

Ambitious to a fault, Vox Lux feels otherworldly…

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Review of Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 12 Dec 2018

Its sprawling storytelling about women in authoritative positions gives the picture its own sense of 16th-century political wokeness, which…

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Review of Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 06 Dec 2018

The fact that Mowgli can speak to the animals in the jungle but not to the villagers makes about as much sense as picking a prickly pear by the paw…

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Review of At Eternity's Gate (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 05 Dec 2018

Director Julian Schnabel confronts van Gogh's mental instability with inventive style and philosophical reflection…

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Review of Creed II (2018)

By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 28 Nov 2018

Creed II misses a major opportunity to tell a great story about fathers and sons…

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