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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

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

Star Andy Samberg & Co…

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Review of Hockney (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 May 2016

It takes nearly an hour before anyone discusses anything conceptual, but what comes before is sufficiently entertaining, and what comes after,…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 May 2016

Without a compelling villain, it's hard to resist feeling like it's just more of the (mutated) same…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 May 2016

A solid kids' movie in the old style…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

There's no reason why it shouldn't be both great fun and warmly human, but alas, it just isn't either…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

It might have worked if everyone involved had maybe cared a little more and/or tied everything together, but instead, we get dangling ball…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

Fiennes dominates the screen, his formidable co-stars, and the even more formidable Mediterranean scenery as a man both possessed and obsessed…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 11 May 2016

Just realistic enough to be harrowing, just fantastical enough to be fascinating, just nasty enough to have you looking for the building's…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 11 May 2016

One long series of narrative gotchas masquerading as moral or intellectual sophistication before finally revealing that it offers nothing more…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 May 2016

It's all a bit much and a bit spot-on, but oh, is it ever lovely to look at and suffused with sincere emotion…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 May 2016

Mostly, this one registers as sound and fury, signifying sequels…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2016

There's pleasure in the easy rapport between the leads, but as events take their course, it's a good thing that cat is cute…

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Review of Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2016

In the end, it's a museum piece: even the drunken screaming matches between Hemingway and his wife feel staged…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

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

Director Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas), who also adapted the screenplay from Dave Eggers novel, displays a fine eye and a light touch with cultural…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

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

Ultimately, Cheadle's labor of love prizes the music-making over the music, and maybe even over the man…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

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

Even the good bits lack zip and verve, and the bad bits leave you wondering why director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan (who did visual effects on the…

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Review of Criminal (2016)

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

All the ingredients are there for a pleasant pander to grumpy old white men: the craggy actors, the foreign bad guys wielding confusing technology,…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

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

If only Nixon could go to China, then perhaps only Elvis could go to Nixon: a rock 'n' roller beloved by America who loved America right back,…

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Review of Mr. Right (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Apr 2016

Director Paco Cabezas seems technically capable, and manages to make New Orleans look like a place instead of a romantic ideal or ruined cityscape…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Apr 2016

Hawke's performance ably conveys the painful, humble work of climbing back up the mountain, and writer-director Robert Budreau mostly sticks…

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