Movie Reviews by Matthew Lickona - Page 21 of 27

401-420 of 530 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 21 May 2015

An admirable take on the winter of discontent that may arrive toward the end…

Read Review

Review of Good Kill (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 May 2015

The audience seems likely to leave feeling scolded or pandered to, depending. Not a great time…

Read Review

Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 May 2015

A gloppy, scattered sop to the power of positive thinking from director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, which offered a much sharper take on the…

Read Review

Review of Felix and Meira (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 May 2015

Director Maxime Giroux gets good performances from leads Martin Dubreuil and Hadas Yaron...But the romantic mood is asked to cover for too…

Read Review

Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 May 2015

It's a pitiless, primitive, primal world [Miller's] built - from its medicine to its religion to its tribal diplomacy - and it's wondrous to behold…

Read Review

Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 May 2015

The grim arithmetic of sequels demands more of what worked the first time: more camp, more sincerity. Charm doesn't stand a chance…

Read Review

Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 May 2015

Whatever quantity of soap froths up Thomas Vinterberg's presentation of Thomas Hardy's novel, it does nothing to fade out the lush colors that…

Read Review

Review of The D Train (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 May 2015

Sadly, the film lacks its hero's willingness to go there for the sake of glory, and winds up merely middling - a fatal flaw…

Read Review

Review of Welcome to Me (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 May 2015

What starts out looking like a quirky attack on magical thinking turns out to be a sustained assault on television: the way it subsumes and…

Read Review

Review of Maggie (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 May 2015

Come for Arnold Schwarzenegger's wrinkled visage and grizzled beard; stay for Abigail Breslin's fine teen-facing-death pathos…

Read Review

Review of Dirty Hands (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Apr 2015

The dialogue is as spare as the story; the richness comes from the performances of stars Cristian James Abvincula and Jarlin Javier Martinez,…

Read Review

Review of Cheatin' (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Apr 2015

The story is stuffed with exaggeration, elongation, elaboration, but it's all in the service of making a commonplace circumstance - love -…

Read Review

Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2015

Whedon is mostly up to the task of keeping all his balls in the air, though he's not above using some glib speechmaking and ridiculous action…

Read Review

Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Apr 2015

If you can keep in mind that the whole thing is an Australian tweak of the magic carpet story from The Arabian Nights, you can probably enjoy…

Read Review

Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Apr 2015

The real star turns out to be the play itself: the early masterpiece of a now-deceased writer, a work of such mirrorlike perfection that it…

Read Review

Review of The Riot Club (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 Apr 2015

Who's up for a little blunt-force social commentary about the haves and have-nots, set in the rarefied clime of Oxford University…

Read Review

Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 Apr 2015

A great film for people who are tired of associating the color black with sadness and despair: now, both of those things are available in snowy white…

Read Review

Review of Ned Rifle (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Apr 2015

Hartley is at his Hartleyest here, meaning, among other things, that a fair chunk of the dialogue sounds like a pronouncement, aimed as much…

Read Review

Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Apr 2015

Noah Baumbach is still swinging away at generational divides and the plight of the artist, but here, he trades in his rapier for a foam rubber cudgel…

Read Review

Review of Effie Gray (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Apr 2015

Thompson herself plays a sort of proto-feminist advisor, but the enemy here isn't misogyny so much as it is gynophobia…

Read Review

Page 21 of 27

Matthew Lickona has written reviews for:

San Diego Reader (713)

Matthew Lickona is connected to:

Scott Marks (172)
David Elliott (754)

Popular Movies Right Now

Upgrade

2018

76%696 Reviews

Interstellar

2014

83%1,261 Reviews

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

The Batman

2022

75%430 Reviews

Purple Hearts

2022

56%11 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews