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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Jul 2018

The McDonald's hamburger of action movies. Well, maybe that's not entirely fair. Maybe the Wendy's…

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Review of The King (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Jul 2018

The insistence may inspire a furrowed brow here, a rolled eye there, and a shaken fist or knowing nod over yonder, but there's enough earnest…

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Review of The Equalizer 2 (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Jul 2018

It's not much of a movie - more a parade of rah-rah triumphs obscuring a batch of logical oddities - which makes Washington's committed performance…

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Review of Skyscraper (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Jul 2018

The pleasures here come from watching an extraordinary physical specimen go through a lo-tech workout routine thousands of feet above the ground…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Jul 2018

Would be okay and maybe even fun were it not for the frequent presence of a gruesome ghost haunting the proceedings: a woman in constant physical…

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Review of Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Jun 2018

As if in imitation of the ruthless Mexican drug cartel its heroes go after, director Stefano Sollima's sequel decapitates, disembowels, and…

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Review of Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 21 Jun 2018

The story is barrel-proof earnest sentiment, straight no chaser. How to keep the eyes from rolling in response…

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Review of Tag (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 Jun 2018

The cast is talented and game. But the game itself is grotesque, largely because of the characters they're forced to play…

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Review of Incredibles 2 (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jun 2018

Incredibles 2 feels like a rebuke of the audience that came to gawk at a superhero movie - and worse, that had the nerve to identify with its…

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Review of Hotel Artemis (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Jun 2018

The characters are stock, but interior complexity isn't the point in a one-crazy-night genre outing like this; what matters is the reaction…

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Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Jun 2018

Having announced itself, it works as a bravura technical exercise in the slow reveal…

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Review of Always at The Carlyle (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 31 May 2018

What looks at first like it might be a 92-minute commercial for a venerable luxury hotel…

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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 31 May 2018

What had been impossibly sweet becomes simply impossible, and old-fashioned mores prove unsuited to the task of navigating the emotional morass…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 May 2018

A story full of passion and longing and rage and betrayal that comes across as abstract verging on bloodless…

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Review of The Seagull (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 May 2018

A story full of passion and longing and rage and betrayal that comes across as abstract verging on bloodless…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 May 2018

Young Han can only watch helplessly as the gravity of the Star Wars children's crusade overwhelms him and the wondrous fun run gives way to…

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Review of Deadpool 2 (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 May 2018

Instead of seeking to top the over-the-top antics of the first film, [both director and star are] content to simply groove with what they've…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 25 Apr 2018

Maybe the quips and the punch-ups are there because they have to be, what with the film's steady parade of failure and even death…

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Review of The Endless (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 19 Apr 2018

The eventual reveal fits with the film's overall intelligence and interest in people and existence over spectacle and action…

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Review of Borg vs McEnroe (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Apr 2018

By the end, even the flaws become, if not entirely justifiable, then at least intelligible…

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