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Review of Maudie (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Jul 2017

An unsentimental but emotional film for anyone who suspects in their heart of hearts that suffering really is the only thing that makes anyone…

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Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Jul 2017

What are the odds that a film with six credited screenwriters and a director (Jon Watts) with more Onion content than anything else could recapture…

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Review of Cars 3 (2017)

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

Onscreen and in the audience, youth will be served…

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Review of All Eyez on Me (2017)

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

A lumbering, illustrated hagiography of the slain rap phenom Tupac Shakur that, in its efforts to exalt and exonerate the man, reduces him…

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Review of The Book of Henry (2017)

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

However hard the talented cast may try, those aren't people up on the screen; they're candles, balloons, and marbles…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

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

I was curious enough about Universal's decision to exhume its classic monsters to hold on until the zombie crusader frogmen started swimming…

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Review of Radio Dreams (2017)

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

Director and scriptwriter Babak Jalali cleverly uses the station's ramshackle, microbudget operations to highlight the humanity on both sides…

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Review of Legion of Brothers (2017)

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

There's some bitterness on display, plenty of sadness, and an abundance of camaraderie…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Jun 2017

Many big ideas are juggled, and while the story doesn't exactly drop them, it does flail about a bit…

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Review of Manifesto (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Jun 2017

Some bits are less effective and/or more obscure, but few last long enough to wear out their welcome, thanks to writer-director Julian Rosefeldt's…

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Review of Churchill (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Jun 2017

Maybe one of the top five best-looking bad films ever made, thanks at least in part to cinematographer David Higgs' mastery of the long shot…

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Review of The Wedding Plan (2016)

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

An engaging (and surprisingly entertaining) examination, not of belief, but of a believer, a struggling soul who more often than not blocks…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

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

The bounty of bawdy bits feel borrowed from Benny Hill (No woman's ever handled my Herschel before…

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Review of A Dark Song (2016)

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

Imperfectly realized, but still worthy of its ambition…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

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

Ridley Scott finishes what he started in Prometheus: the story of David (Michael Fassbender), a sentient creation who discovers that his creator…

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Review of Obit (2017)

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

The real subject here is storytelling, the creation of a stylish, authoritative, highly personal record of how the world got to be the way…

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Review of The Lovers (2017)

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

It's tempting to read this as a younger generation's condemnation of its parents' me-first indulgence, and an affirmation of familial unity…

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Review of Buster's Mal Heart (2017)

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

Happily, the weirdness is not for its own sake, and the story, while scrambled, is anything but incoherent…

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Review of The Wall (2017)

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

Liman does good work in making the disembodied voice into a man, and in fitting a dialogue-heavy drama into the framework of an action film…

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Review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

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

Jude Law almost manages to chew his way through the CGI scenery and create a gloriously wicked villain, but in the end, even he succumbs to the dumb…

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