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Review of The Imitation Game (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 23 Dec 2014

Consider the code cracked, translated, and laid out for all to see: different is special is good, and ordinary morality is a sham, anyway…

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Review of Into the Woods (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 23 Dec 2014

Steven Sondheim's musical theater meditation on the complication, compromise, and carnality that adulthood brings to the fairy-tale world of…

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Review of The Imitation Game (1980)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 23 Dec 2014

Consider the code cracked, translated, and laid out for all to see: different is special is good, and ordinary morality is a sham, anyway…

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Review of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Dec 2014

Gen X avatar Stiller, having made his own way and found some peace, must now confront the fact that his son has his own plans for life and…

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Review of The Babadook (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Dec 2014

Writer-director Jennifer Kent lets the dread creep in slowly, and wisely goes easy on the effects; she knows that hand-drawn pop-ups can be…

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Review of Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Dec 2014

Way too much screen time is given over to folks describing what it's like to live in such a place, as opposed to, you know, actually living there…

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Review of Wild (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Dec 2014

Strayed comes across as a real person, Witherspoon is a real actor, and the film is a real showcase…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Dec 2014

It's true that some modern people still believe in the Old Testament God, but that doesn't mean it makes sense to have your Old Testament figures…

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Review of Happy Valley (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Nov 2014

You may cringe. You may sympathize. You may cringe at your own sympathy…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Nov 2014

It does fruitful work in the field of sport, where lofty notions of excellence and heroism can believably grapple with brutish realities involving…

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Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 19 Nov 2014

For a film about the power of media to sway humanity in a desired direction, it's awfully leaden…

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Review of David Bowie Is Happening Now (2013)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 19 Nov 2014

It's something to watch the shining eyes of doughy, aging Brits as they stand before the kaleidoscopic jumpsuit he wore on Top of the Pops in 1972…

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Review of The Way He Looks (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 Nov 2014

Brazilian gay coming-of-age tale, almost quaint in its old-fashioned sweetness and gentle dramatics…

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Review of The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Nov 2014

Miyazaki pours himself fully into his art, and it is both pleasure and privilege to watch it happen…

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Review of Awake: The Life of Yogananda (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Nov 2014

It's not quite hagiography, but it's almost hard not to get caught up in the film's admiring tone…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Nov 2014

An exciting and sometimes funny commercial for what will surely be a delightful action figure, available in three iterations: original plushie,…

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Review of White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Oct 2014

Oh, the small-town/suburban horror of it all…

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Review of Birdman (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Oct 2014

[Innaritu] is having fun as he winds his camera through the labyrinthine bowels of the theater like a starstruck fly, and he wants you to have…

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Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Oct 2014

[Innaritu] is having fun as he winds his camera through the labyrinthine bowels of the theater like a starstruck fly, and he wants you to have…

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Review of John Wick (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Oct 2014

Utterly formulaic, but still compelling, thanks in part to a fine villain, clever story touches, and clear-eyed direction from David Leitch…

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