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Review of Song to Song (2017)

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

Monumentally moving…

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Review of Lion (2015)

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 Silence (2017)

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 Arrival (2016)

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

Arrival is a marvel of sublime imagery and overpowering sound design…

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Review of The Eagle Huntress (2016)

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

A well-meaning hodgepodge of sweeping aerial shots and thinly veiled staging about themes that deserve more substantial treatment…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

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

Wind River reveals itself to be a full-fledged message movie…

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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 Logan (2017)

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

Logan moves from self-loathing lush to reluctant protector to impassioned avenger…

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Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

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

An eerily symbolic narrative that fuses multiple genres (prison film, melodrama) with deeply political subtext about hate and isolation…

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Review of Fences (2016)

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

Often overpowered by Washington's forceful turn, Fences struggles with a bad case of thematic redundancy…

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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 Miss Sloane (2016)

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

Miss Sloane might feel like a therapeutic respite of rage…

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Review of Moonlight (2016)

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

If our divided America is looking in the mirror trying to figure out what the future looks like, Moonlight reflects a complex portrait of compassion…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

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

On paper this sounds like a fresh exploration of the thriller genre, but It Comes at Night wears its tragedy far too proudly…

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Review of Hunter Gatherer (2016)

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

A beguiling odd couple you won't soon forget…

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Review of Jackie (2016)

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

While many small details are profoundly beautiful, Larraín's attempt feels weighed down by self-importance, as if history were a wet blanket…

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Review of Donald Cried (2017)

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

A sharply funny debut that considers whether flawed people can ever truly recognize their own faults…

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Review of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)

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

Dawson City: Frozen Time may sound like a time capsule on paper, but it's something altogether more profound in motion…

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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

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

A crackling series of extended vignettes that thrive on revealing contradiction, skewering everything from corporate greed to global outsourcing…

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Review of Christine (2016)

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

Hall's brilliantly detailed performance reveals a woman being torn apart by repression and disappointment, as if her intestines had been replaced…

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