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Review of Paddington 2 (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Remove diversity and things fall apart; in this post-Brexit age, is there a more relevant theme for British filmmakers to consider…

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Review of Three Identical Strangers (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

The film's grand revelations, while somewhat opportunistic, not only underscore important themes of parental and social responsibility, but…

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Review of Upgrade (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

This lean and mean genre throwback utilizes classic revenge tropes to cleverly question whether mankind will ever reconcile its extreme dependence…

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Review of The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

An astonishingly poorly written film that wastes talented actors…

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Review of Generation Wealth (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Generation Wealth feels incomplete and haunted…

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Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a dire exercise in physical and emotional struggle, protracted by a filmmaker who's getting terribly close…

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Review of Ghost Stories (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Horror sagas like Ghost Stories too often try to impress psychological closure on knotty perceptions of grief and trauma…

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Review of The Endless (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

The film struggles to generate any urgency amidst a script hobbled by awkward hipster banter and passive aggressive outbursts…

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Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Imagine the rowdy comedic timing of a Preston Sturges romp mixed with the subversive glamor of Ernest Lubitsch's patented touch…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Operating under sleazy genre guidelines akin to Cinemax's sexy heyday, the film remains salaciously meaty throughout, matching Foy's barnburner…

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Review of Lucky (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Feels like the perfect capstone to a great artist's career…

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Review of Final Portrait (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Subverts the tortured artist narrative just enough to remain urgent, mostly because the two leads continuously challenge each other…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

If Lebanon was fueled by its visceral intensity, Foxtrot could use a little less of the same - the one moment it seems totally alive is when…

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Review of The Square (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

The Square is often humorless and just as arrogant as its lead character…

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Review of Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Unlike its more artful antecedent, Day of the Soldado features an array of striking dead ends, glaring red herrings, unceremonious deaths and…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Granik only sees hope and endurance in her worn out characters…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Ant-Man and the Wasp isn't the worst Marvel movie ever, but it might be the most inconsequential…

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Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Small miracles do exist in Blade Runner 2049, but the organic beauty and possibility they represent gets buried beneath ponderous ruminations…

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Review of Disobedience (2018)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Often a filmmaker of great visual energy, Lelio becomes slave to the depressing winter aesthetic of the film's surroundings, draining the film…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 19 Aug 2018

Relentless and intoxicating, Good Time is a manic and devious exploration of greed…

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