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Review of The Oath (2016)

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

The film's ultimately conventional take on rationalized violence lacks teeth, relegating it to an already overflowing bin of cold-nosed morality…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

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

Chalamet's performance ascends into the pantheon of greats, a mixture of Marlon Brando's brimming panic and Heath Ledger's simmering vulnerability…

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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 Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

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

Despite all of the derivative banter, screen saver imagery and simplistic moralizing, Ehrenreich's combination of reckless glee and stubbornness…

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Review of The Post (2017)

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

Steven Spielberg's rousing and spirited portrait of integrity as resistance still finds time to revel in the excitement of history unfolding…

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Review of Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA (2017)

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

Rarely does an artist profile so thoroughly embrace the style of the artist it's profiling…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

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

While over-stylized at times, Eighth Grade manages to reveal constant social frustrations young people experience during this potentially unnerving…

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Review of Before We Vanish (2017)

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

Insanely fun and ambitious, but also quite melancholic…

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Review of First Reformed (2018)

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

First Reformed manages to sublimely inspire great conviction out of impenetrable darkness…

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Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017)

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

Ramsay's rickety balancing act is admirable, and one of the rare examples where brutishness and sensitivity feel synonymous…

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Review of Hostiles (2017)

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

Often a formidable exercise in Western angst, Hostiles also dwells in the misery of a one-man reckoning, spending way too much time burying…

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Review of Filmworker (2018)

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

For a doc about Kubrick, one of the most precise film artists ever, it's unforgivable that the narrative would be so messily conceived…

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Review of Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

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

Initially, it feels all too familiar structurally. But as behind-the-scenes segments seamlessly merge together with measured grace…

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Review of The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

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

Provides Cameron with the obvious clues to better understand the faith-based immorality that drives religious fear mongering…

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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 Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)

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

Van Sant's latest doesn't exhibit the poisonously saccharine attributes of his worst work, nor the ambition and profound tonalities of his…

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Review of Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

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

Giallo is often about keeping characters (and audiences) off balance. Your Vice…

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Review of The Florida Project (2017)

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

With deep love and affection for their characters, Baker and co-writer Chris Bergoch create a vibrant community pushed to the fringes by economics…

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Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

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

An epic documentary that feels consistently intimate…

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Review of American Animals (2018)

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

A tonal mess of a movie that highlights inconsistencies between differing perspectives, while also reveling in the outright absurdity of what…

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