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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

Dahl's novel implicitly alludes to the U.K.'s rapidly changing national identity…

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Review of The Fifth Element (1997)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

It fuses slapstick with screwball comedy in brilliant ways, and appreciates the necessity of levity when considering heavy themes…

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Review of The Birth of a Nation (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

There's nothing inherently honorable or complex about presenting these visuals simply to punish the viewer…

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Review of Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

Malle spins new webs around typical noir conventions, giving darker implications of fate and comeuppance a fresh verve…

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Review of Phantom Boy (2015)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

Leo's unnerving ability to dance between reality and waking life gives the film a metaphysical tone, yet it's riddled with comedic bits that…

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Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

[Maggie's Plan is] plainly shot, casually paced and at times horribly repetitive…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

The film powerfully reveals how political elitists, media commentators and even Weiner himself continue to deny her the right to steer this…

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Review of Kate Plays Christine (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

Much like its tortured subject, the film is an enigma of contradictory interpretations that could explode with rage on a moment's notice…

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Review of De Palma (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

Instead of focusing only on the director's patented thematic and stylistic motifs, [De Palma] calls attention to the patterns of its subject's…

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Review of Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

Deeper questions about Albert's style and artistic identity are left underexplored, strange considering the film's abrupt title…

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Review of Don't Think Twice (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 21 Aug 2018

While Don't Think Twice shies away from the dark and demented impulses of standup, it exposes the uncomfortable realization that change is…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

At times ludicrous and exhilarating, A Cure for Wellness embraces the silliness of its plot without a hint of irony…

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Review of Neruda (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

Larraín's approach feels far too redundant…

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Review of Support the Girls (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

A gleefully unpretentious ode to the importance of respecting women…

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Review of Daughters of the Dust (1991)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

Dash's seminal drama is that rare ensemble piece truly focused on the collective, how individuals complicate and contradict notions of community…

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Review of Mine (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

At times laughably gabby, Mine never recovers from a derelict script that's awash in cliché…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

Lonergan's fidgety, often riotous film refuses to sit still…

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Review of Landline (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

Gillian Robespierre's wise romantic comedy Landline refuses to accept the false narrative that sex, romance and coming of age were any less…

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Review of Tower (2016)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

A fluid, drowsy and nightmarish vision of trauma that seems to unfold in real time…

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Review of City of Ghosts (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 20 Aug 2018

Heineman's emotional approach threatens to turn City of Ghosts into a PSA…

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