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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

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

The rich imagery and controlled composition seem alternately to highlight Dickinson's unfettered art and to mock her sadly fettered life…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

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

Director James Gunn has a vision and he puts it across, but it ain't pretty…

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Review of Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent (2016)

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

Lydia Tenaglia's alternately dreamy and gossipy documentary about celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower is heavy on the celebrity and frustratingly…

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Review of The Lost City of Z (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Apr 2017

There is an unexploitative, unsensational grounding to the whole affair that lends it dignity, but that doesn't quite justify the 140-minute runtime…

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Review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Apr 2017

Just when the Fast-and-the-Furious-on-Ice finale threatens to drag on past the point of action-setpiece endurance, director F…

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Review of Their Finest (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Apr 2017

As polite, charming, and English as its star Gemma Arterton, who sails through the chaos and calamity with the good sense, pluck, and grace…

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Review of Your Name. (2016)

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

Throughout, there is the nagging sense that the whole thing will unravel if any one thread gets tugged too hard, but when both the heart and…

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Review of The Ticket (2016)

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

The story proceeds with the deliberate, inexorable force of a fable, but never abandons its characters' humanity in the process…

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Review of The Boss Baby (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Mar 2017

I could have done without the kewpie-doll faces and oversized eyes, but for the most part and where it counts, The Boss Baby gets its kids just right…

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Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Mar 2017

A hot mess of a philosophical cyber-thriller....Some cool visuals, though…

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Review of The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Mar 2017

Again and again, the fuse is lit and then fizzles. Eventually, bewildered disinterest sets in…

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Review of Life (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Mar 2017

Here is a story that knows how to put the nihilism in the vast nothingness of space. If you're into that sort of thing…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

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

Ian McKellan makes a fine, melancholy Cogsworth the clock, but the rest of the enchanted servants come off hammy and campy, while Kevin Kline…

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Review of The Sense of an Ending (2017)

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

Director Ritesh Batra's adaptation of Julian Barnes's my-theme-is-memory novel serves as a grand showcase for star Jim Broadbent as a sour…

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Review of Kong: Skull Island (2017)

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

It's fun to watch the [monsters] in action, but on the human side, the film is clumsily written, over-cast and underacted, with only frustrated…

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Review of Logan (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Mar 2017

[Director] Mangold drags [Wolverine] - much older, if not much wiser - into a Western, and ends up with the best superhero movie in recent memory…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Feb 2017

Cultural appropriation shifts from 'problematic' to 'horrific' in writer-director Jordan Peele's sharp take on the scary world of stuff white…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Feb 2017

[Director Verbinski] takes the campy dread of Hammer horror films (Horror of Dracula, et alia) and builds it into a a gorgeous, epic assault…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Feb 2017

[Day] succeeds, however, at carrying the film, partly through sympathetic wretchedness and partly through sheer energy…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Feb 2017

Something bland and familiar to make the keening wail of the (beautiful) funeral ceremony a little less foreign, and the brightly color-coded…

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