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Review of Café Society (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

It's handsome, and pleasant, and polished, and sedate. You won't laugh or cry. You may, however, smile or sigh…

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Review of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

It's not for all tastes. But it is very much for certain tastes: the over the top, acid-tongued, camptastic sort…

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Review of Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

With each passing entry in the Ice Age franchise, the gap between the anarchic joy of the brief bits featuring Scrat the Squirrel and the plodding,…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

Director Taika Waititi proves expert in his management of tone, such that the farcical elements, however numerous, don't detract from the very…

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Review of Captain Fantastic (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

After a while, you begin to suspect that the smugness is the point…

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Review of The Infiltrator (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

When director Brad Furman isn't focusing on huge closeups (which seems to be an awful lot of the time), he's focusing on all the wrong details…

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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Jul 2016

While a Busby Berkeley number set in a sausage factory is good fun, too much of the film feels like hot dog filler: inoffensive but also…

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Review of Tickled (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jun 2016

There are lessons to be learned here; hopefully, they will shine through the murk…

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Review of Wiener-Dog (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jun 2016

The style tends toward the artificial and the humor toward the archly droll, but the stories themselves are perfectly sincere…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jun 2016

There are good bits among the bad (the giant's bullying, bratty kinfolk especially), but mostly, there's simply not enough there…

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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jun 2016

Director Yates has got a knack for conveying the grandeur of Africa, the fierce power of the animals, the currents of straightforward emotion…

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Review of The Shallows (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Jun 2016

The progression from personal drama to surf film to (wo)man vs…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Jun 2016

Yes, Refn indulges his camera to the point of luxuriating, but then, he has reason to believe you'll stay with him…

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Review of Central Intelligence (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jun 2016

The eventual resolution is entirely too neat 'n tidy in light of the (sometimes funny) crazy that precedes it: what began as a dark comedy…

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Review of De Palma (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jun 2016

De Palma enthusiasts will benefit the most here (small surprise), but there's good material for anyone interested in how their cinematic sausage…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jun 2016

Directors Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane make it very clear what you are supposed to feel and when you are supposed to feel it…

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Review of Now You See Me 2 (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

And of course, there's no danger of mistaking computer-enhanced trickery for actual sleight of hand, so even the modest but honest pleasure…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

There are plenty of flaws - an overabundance of storylines chief among them, followed by the occasional slip into silly action and/or overdone…

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Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Jun 2016

Feels remarkably like it was conceived and created by (as opposed to merely for) 12-year-old boys…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Jun 2016

Easily escapes the fading headlines about a botched campaign to become an enduring portrait of a political animal caught in a technological trap…

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