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Review of Your Name. (2016)

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

Your Name is [a] mixed bag of bravura style and exhausting storytelling…

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Review of Silence (2016)

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

A prickly epic that deals with the unexplainable motivations surrounding religious faith…

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Review of The Dinner (2017)

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

There's no shortage of ripped-from-the-headlines plot points: mental illnesses, millennial evil, political gerrymandering, failing education…

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Review of The Lost City of Z (2017)

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

The Lost City of Z is not interested in how personal beliefs reflect politics and movements of the time…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

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

At times sluggish and redundant, A Monster Calls nevertheless stays true to the child's evolving perspective…

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

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

Takes itself way too seriously, chucking the snarky charisma for blatant self-importance, all in the hopes of becoming a tent pole release…

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Review of Lion (2016)

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

Leans on simplistic cause and effect to create heightened emotional tension…

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Review of Juliet, Naked (2018)

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

It effortlessly weaves witty dialogue exchanges with endearing emotional confessions, all for the purpose of challenging traditional gender roles…

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Review of Step (2017)

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

Step pays respect to the small decisions and conversations that help empower disenfranchised families to break free from crippling cycles of…

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Review of Aquarius (2016)

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

Braga gives the character an indestructible sense of self, showcasing a range of emotions that defy easy categorization…

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Review of Tampopo (1985)

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

With its stylized irises and playfully exaggerated performances, Tampopo strikes the perfect balance between slapstick homage and tender throwback…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

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

These seemingly small moments contain a certain magic all their own, internal rhymes and themes that begin to dismantle the idea of normalcy…

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Review of Free Fire (2017)

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

Free Fire is a rote slog that trivializes raging gunplay and murder for a few darkly comic laughs…

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Review of The Lovers (2017)

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

[Director Azazel] Jacobs finds a sweet spot between indie angst and mainstream genre tropes, creating a messy vision of recycled romance that…

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Review of Escapes (2017)

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

Escapes feels like a fitting and strange tribute to someone whose robust intimacy with life remains just as complicated today…

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Review of Okja (2017)

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

Bong's strange, beguiling work carves out its own place in a world that often makes little sense…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

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

Never underestimate the city-killing power of millennial self-pity…

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Review of Mine (2016)

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 Alien: Covenant (2017)

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

Meticulously made and visually gorgeous, Alien: Covenant nevertheless frustrates and confounds, often diminishing character complexity for…

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Review of XX (2017)

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

Often striking for its seamless brutality, the film eventually devolves into an artsy episode of The Following…

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