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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

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

What transpires is grimmer than what's come before, and without the sense of fun, the absurdity of the action becomes less enjoyable…

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Review of HOME (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Seymour: An Introduction (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

By the end of our introduction, Bernstein emerges as a man who has found a way to build order out of life's chaos through music…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Queen & Country (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

In short, [you may realize] how expert presentation can draw you into a world, immerse you in the lives of others, and make you sorry to leave…

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Review of Home (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Mar 2015

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Insurgent (2015)

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

It's all a bit of an unengaging muddle, covered over with concrete grunge, clean white labs, and stagy special effects…

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Review of '71 (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Mar 2015

The grainy, grimy, shadow-strewn look is right for this sort of military noir, and the women who haunt the edges of the conflict are splendid…

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Review of Ballet 422 (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Mar 2015

The fly [on the wall] is very good at getting access...but rather less good at giving context…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Mar 2015

The film feels neither dated nor updated. Rather, it treads, with a light and careful step, the difficult middle path of timelessness…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Mar 2015

The film feels neither dated nor updated. Rather, it treads, with a light and careful step, the difficult middle path of timelessness…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

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

It may be too sloppy and indulgent to actually call good, but that still leaves room for words like heartfelt, trippy, personal, and even admirable…

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Review of The Salvation (2014)

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

Worth seeing just for the faces, starting with Mads Mikkelsen as the suffering hero, then moving on to Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the rotten, savvy…

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Review of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

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

There's a sweetness to the proceedings that never quite overpowers the melancholy of maturity, and a sympathy for human frailty that stops…

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