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Review of Rampage (2018)

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

It may be based on a video game, but it plays like a live-action cartoon, one that doubles as a fantastical journey into the imagination and…

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Review of Gemini (2017)

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

The word beguiling came to mind throughout…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

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

Life in the OASIS is exciting and wondrous to behold through your avatar's oversized anime eyes, but it doesn't mean much without some real-world…

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Review of Isle of Dogs (2018)

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

A delight, albeit one that is red in tooth and claw…

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Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Mar 2018

Guillermo Del Toro's 2013 original (well, first, anyway) Pacific Rim was a genre love letter…

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Review of The Death of Stalin (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Mar 2018

Director and co-writer Armando Iannucci puts it all on black (comedy), betting that the vast discrepancy between great power and small souls…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Mar 2018

Director Steven Soderbergh returns to the cinema of anxiety he explored in 2013's Side Effects…

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Review of The Cured (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Mar 2018

The feelings are right, and that's very much the main thing…

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Review of Tomb Raider (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Mar 2018

For a while, it looked like director Roar Uthaug was going to deliver a video game movie that transcended the genre, mostly through the neat…

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Review of Mohawk (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Mar 2018

As with last year's The Void, Mohawk is wonderfully long on setting, mood, and practical effects, and woefully short on storytelling and drama…

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Review of Red Sparrow (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Mar 2018

Lurid but not quite trashy thriller from director Francis Lawrence, who puts his Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence through trials that never…

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Review of The Party (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 23 Feb 2018

Like a soap bubble, writer-director Sally Potter's arch sendup of the English intelligentsia (plus the odd coked-up banker) is brief, diverting,…

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Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Feb 2018

Ultimately, it's more interesting to think about than it is to watch…

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Review of Winchester (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Feb 2018

Let the guilt and dread and spooky atmospherics and oh, yes, ensuing madness commence! Wait, no? Jump scares? Oh well…

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Review of Hostiles (2017)

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

By turns deliberative and chaotic, brutal and merciful, definitely bleak and just maybe hopeful, Hostiles could have ended with its penultimate…

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Review of Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

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

It's...not great. But it's better than it has any right to be…

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Review of Den of Thieves (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 Jan 2018

[Butler] tears into his performance as nasty cop (well, sheriff) and lousy husband Nick Flanagan the way Flanagan tears into a crime-scene…

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Review of 12 Strong (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 Jan 2018

Combat scenes seem more interested in the faces than the fracas, missions are undertaken with no apparent outcome, and great difficulties loom…

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Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 Jan 2018

If Anderson's The Master was a swirling miasma, Phantom Thread is an unforgiving dress…

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Review of Paddington 2 (2017)

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

It may be difficult to find a review of director and co-writer Paul King's followup to [Paddington] that does not employ some form of the word…

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