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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Dec 2017

It's a story less about the characters involved than it is about the dynamics between them, a late addition to the Symposium's accounts of…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Dec 2017

Word-pusher Aaron Sorkin makes his debut as a director, and whaddya know, he directs a lot like he writes: fast and smooth, bordering on slick…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Dec 2017

Payne's brand of prickly humanism is on full display here; he seems to revel is the notion that it's only when we're uncomfortable that we…

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Review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Dec 2017

Historians now agree that Barnum wasn't the one who said There's a sucker born every minute, but it's hard to escape the feeling that you're…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Dec 2017

And yet for all that telling about how it was, the film feels much more like happy fantasy than detailed history, a fond look back on the lead-up…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Dec 2017

The devoted will no doubt be delighted; for the rest, a resigned acceptance may be the safest path to enjoyment…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Dec 2017

It's a testament to the storyteller's skill that he manages to cram [so much] into his narrative with nary a lump and still keep his characters…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Dec 2017

If 2016's Café Society was writer-director Woody Allen's attempt to introduce a younger generation to the world of Woody Allen, then this…

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Review of The Disaster Artist (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Dec 2017

Wiseau also makes a pretty good avatar for Franco himself: a mercurial, relentless performer whose ambition encompasses a thrilling willingness…

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Review of Coco (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 25 Nov 2017

Of every Pixar film that deals with family, memory, and loss, ask, Is there sufficient reason for the tears that will inevitably run down my…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 25 Nov 2017

McDonagh works way too hard to inject nearly every scene with his patented solution of acid wit and dark-roast comedy…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Nov 2017

There's some welcome levity, some genuine conversation (as when Bats and Diana share a drink), and a few moments that feel like really good…

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Review of The Square (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Nov 2017

The whole experience is rough going: sometimes numbing, sometimes horrifying, sometimes merely baffling…

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Review of Last Flag Flying (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 10 Nov 2017

The film winds up like both its subjects and the military they served in: sincere in its objectives, compromised in its execution…

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Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 10 Nov 2017

Whodunit? Who took the life of a famous murder mystery and left it dead on the screen? I accuse...director and star Kenneth Branagh…

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Review of No Greater Love (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 10 Nov 2017

Despite the sentimental soundtrack, the declarations of American greatness, and the stories of courage under fire, what mostly comes though…

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Review of Novitiate (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 10 Nov 2017

[Reverend Mother Leo's] countenance alternates between a stony smile and a twisted snarl, except for the moments when the changes wrought by…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 Nov 2017

Pitch-black satire, heartwarming devotion, over-the-top performance, and subtle drama are engineered into something decidedly (if improbably)…

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Review of Jane (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Nov 2017

Writer-director Brett Morgen makes the most of both the find and his still-living subject: image and story alike are packed with rich color…

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Review of Jane (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Nov 2017

Writer-director Brett Morgen makes the most of both the find and his still-living subject: image and story alike are packed with rich color…

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