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Review of Fury (2014)

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

I won't soon forget the spare, metallic thingness of Fury's tank, nor [Ayer's] apparent delight in rubbing my face in the reddened slime of…

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Review of The Good Lie (2014)

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

If a measure of tasteful restraint is detectable, it serves at least to allow for the depiction of human emotion instead of the market-driven…

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Review of The Good Lie (2013)

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

If a measure of tasteful restraint is detectable, it serves at least to allow for the depiction of human emotion instead of the market-driven…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

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

Think of Simmons' verbal tirades as extended riffs, virtuoso variations on the theme of trial by ordeal…

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Review of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Oct 2014

It almost works - until the dream factory intervenes…

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Review of The Judge (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Oct 2014

Downey does his doe-eyed best to make you play along, and the writing picks up a bit about halfway through. But it's just not worth the 140 minutes…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

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

Fincher's chief delight seems to be in playing with genre conventions: what looks like an especially moody whodunit morphs first into a psychosexual…

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Review of The Boxtrolls (2014)

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

A child's animated primer on the chicanery, skullduggery, and social gamesmanship so dear to the heart of the grownup world, and a gentle affirmation…

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Review of Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)

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

The promise is buried under cutesy touches, bland platitudes, wildly veering tone, and a rushed bid for profundity at the end…

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Review of Last Days in Vietnam (2014)

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

There is enough triumph and tragedy and heroism and heartbreak here to fill three or four features, but director Rory Kennedy smartly packs…

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Review of Take Me to the River (2014)

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

There's some talk about the collaboration's significance, and there's some racially charged history to relate, but the real point is to hear…

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Review of My Old Lady (2014)

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

The story's power lies in the clutter and dimness of the apartment and the acrid-but-civilized conversations that arise when the dust is disturbed…

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Review of The Maze Runner (2014)

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

Everything looks great, from the cast to the setting to the beasties, and the pacing gives the characters room to live and breathe…

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Review of The Drop (1965)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Sep 2014

Director Michael Roskam favors mood, symbolism, and character over action, spectacle and plot; indeed, what plot there is serves the revelation…

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Review of The Drop (2006)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Sep 2014

Director Michael Roskam favors mood, symbolism, and character over action, spectacle and plot; indeed, what plot there is serves the revelation…

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Review of The Drop (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Sep 2014

Director Michael Roskam favors mood, symbolism, and character over action, spectacle and plot; indeed, what plot there is serves the revelation…

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Review of May in the Summer (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Sep 2014

Notable chiefly for its knowing, comfortable depictions of female relationships, sibling relationships, familial relationships…

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Review of The Trip to Italy (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Aug 2014

By the time Coogan is addressing Brydon as Yorick in a skull-filled catacomb outside Naples, the film's true subject has been made as crystal…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Aug 2014

The tone grows ever more serious, even as the action grows ever more ludicrous…

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Review of The Giver (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Aug 2014

For a movie about the importance of emotion, The Giver is surprisingly inert, and also clumsy about hitting its beats…

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