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Review of Alive Inside (2014)

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

I would have preferred a documentary that did more presenting and less pushing…

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Review of The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

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

The characters here exist for the plot, and the plot exists for swooning sensuality, adorable romance, and warm feelings about our shared humanity…

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Review of I Origins (2014)

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

Humanistic sci-fi from director Mike Cahill, insofar as it sympathizes with the human longings for both understanding and transcendent mystery…

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Review of Get On Up (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jul 2014

Chadwick Boseman throws everything he has into his performance as the man who threw everything he had into his performance…

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Review of Code Black (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jul 2014

The film refuses polemic, grants access, and mostly steers clear of the heartstrings in its effort to humanize those on both sides of the institutional…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jul 2014

Marvel puts its heart on its sleeve with a story about the healing power of friendship, but that sleeve is stained with blood, spit, and other…

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Review of Happy Christmas (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jul 2014

It's more of a highly detailed sketch than anything else: a portrait of a woman on the cusp of growing up…

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Review of Venus in Fur (2013)

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

Maybe you see where all this is going. But even if you do, getting there is still good, queasy fun…

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Review of Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Jul 2014

Unfortunately, the story, dialogue, and characters have some trouble carrying all that spiritual weight; ponderousness ensues…

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Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Jul 2014

Whatever it takes to endow ordinary youngster stuff...with enough magic and meaning to make the Kids of Today believe that they can in fact,…

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Review of Life Itself (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Jul 2014

James casts his net wide but not too deep; the result is a positive review of a charmed and happy life, with cancer and fellow critic Gene…

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Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

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

Old Man (Clint Eastwood, 84) makes movie about old musical group and manages to keep the whole enterprise from getting either stiff in the…

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Review of We Are the Best! (2013)

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

A note-perfect coming-of-age story masquerading as a Behind the Music documentary…

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Review of The Grand Seduction (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 11 Jun 2014

The end result is like tea with too much sugar and cream: pleasant enough, but so mild that you start to miss the bitter and the bite…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 11 Jun 2014

Bigger' pretty much describes this sequel to the 2010 sleeper hit - as opposed to, say, 'different…

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Review of Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)

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

Vidal proves a great one for carving up sacred cows - the Founders, Lincoln, Kennedy, The New York Times, and on occasion, the most holy bovine…

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Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

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

Very much the visual version of the wildly popular YA novel, complete with voiceover for the choice bits of narration that its legions of fans…

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Review of A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

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

Importation of modern sensibilities into olden times is the gimmick, but now and then, MacFarlane forgets himself and just has fun…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

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

It's fine to tell old tales anew, and it's fine to mold them to some new purpose - say, a narrative of maternal repentance…

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Review of Documented (2013)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 21 May 2014

The best moments come when Vargas engages regular Americans in conversation, letting them know that he was brought here as a child...and that…

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