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Review of Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)

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

A moseying tour of life on the Lakota reservation, circa right now: the empty beauty of the badlands, the ancient struggle with alcohol, and…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

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

The whole thing feels like a fond reminiscence conducted under the influence of some blissful chemical that allows you to remember things the…

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Review of Hardcore Henry (2015)

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

The story exists mainly to provide reason and shape for the frenzy of carnage: constant, numbing, and in the film's view at least, occasionally funny…

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Review of I Saw the Light (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 31 Mar 2016

There's some drinkin', some cheatin', some yellin', and some cryin…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 23 Mar 2016

In a word, exhausting. In a few more, overblown, overstuffed, repetitive, bombastic, and sometimes just dumb…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Mar 2016

A sober but not-quite-somber drone drama that ably portrays the complicated moral calculus involved in modern warfare…

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Review of Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Mar 2016

Field does a good job of making Doris feel like a person, and manages to finish with grace even as all around her crumbles and stumbles…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

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

A buddy-cop comedy crossed with a political thriller and mashed up against a social drama…

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Review of London Has Fallen (2016)

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

Somewhere along the line, it may occur to you that Babak Najafi's sequel to 2013's president-in-peril pic Olympus Has Fallen is a sly attack…

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Review of King Georges (2015)

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

By patiently letting events play out past the easy and expected end-note, Frankel has fashioned a fine story out of what might have been merely…

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Review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

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

Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa move things along fast enough to keep [the problem aspects] from sinking in too deeply, and star Tina…

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Review of Triple 9 (2016)

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

The uneven thing [here] is John Hillcoat's direction: a tense, sustained journey through an apartment while lined up behind a bulletproof shield…

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Review of Eddie the Eagle (2016)

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

For every easy, eye-rolling bit, there's a moment of genuine emotion; the champion jumper's pre-climax speech on what matters in sport is downright…

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Review of Risen (2016)

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

Once the question [of belief] is answered, all that's left is pious illustration, plus maybe a silly chase through the desert…

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Review of Touched with Fire (2016)

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

It's possible that [director] Dalio recognizes the fantastical element to his tale; why else would he conclude with a packed house for a poetry…

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Review of Race (2016)

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

Overstuffed, muddy-headed, heavy-handed, derivative, and weirdly sanitized - and yet it almost works, because who wouldn't thrill to see a…

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Review of Deadpool (2016)

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

An anti-superhero movie (or maybe a super-antihero movie) that might have worked if it had the courage of its lack of convictions…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Feb 2016

Remember movies? The Coen brothers do. Westerns, romances, musicals, dance extravaganzas - the works…

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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

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

A straight-up Boys' Own adventure yarn, set sincerely and squarely in early '50s New England but gussied up with plenty of 21st-century StormWave CGI…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

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

Once again, it's fun to look at and full of wisecracks, which, coupled with the dueling-dads subplot, may be enough to see you through…

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