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Review of Beach Rats (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Sep 2017

Let's call this what it is: a fetishistic After-School Special complete with closeups of trimmed pubes and squeaky-clean sphincters…

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Review of Crown Heights (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Sep 2017

The sole fresh twist, one that should have been more than enough to drive the show - one friend dedicating his life to exonerating the other…

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Review of Viceroy's House (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Sep 2017

It's handsome, important, and moving in places, but it just isn't enough movie for the subject matter…

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Review of Get Big (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 31 Aug 2017

The film's great virtue is its versimilitude, followed by its gently crude humor, its affectionate heart, and its pleasantly surprising degree…

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Review of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 31 Aug 2017

What we have here is less an exploration of personal artistry than an entry-level history lesson…

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Review of Lemon (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Aug 2017

Be prepared for what will prove to be far and away the longest 83 minutes you'll spend watching a movie this year…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Aug 2017

Maybe it's not [the directors'] fault that this dark joyride offers neither an ordered route nor a satisfying destination…

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Review of Patti Cake$ (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Aug 2017

The performances are all first-rate - particularly Bridget Everett as Macdonald's haggard mother - but first time writer-director Geremy Jasper…

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Review of Ingrid Goes West (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Aug 2017

The experience is akin to being kneaded by a cat - now soft paws, now sharp claws, alternatingly sweet and deeply uncomfortable…

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Review of 68 Kill (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Aug 2017

It's cheap and trashy and tasteless, but it's not unfun, and there's a pleasing measure of low-budget craft on display…

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Review of Logan Lucky (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Aug 2017

In the very least, Hal Needham's Smokey and the Bandit films displayed a fair amount of affection amid the hamming for their shit-kicking rubes…

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Review of Menashe (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Aug 2017

The curious are welcome, but this one fits snugly in the category of You Don't Have to Be Jewish, But…

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Review of The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Aug 2017

The major culprit in the picture is screenwriter Allan Loeb (Here Comes the Boom, Collateral Beauty) a once and future Happy Madison gagman…

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Review of The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Aug 2017

As 48 hours, Lethal Weapon, et alia have demonstrated, people love a good black and white buddy comedy. And who knows…

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Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 10 Aug 2017

A movie about storytelling that succeeds by keeping its focus on the storyteller…

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Review of The Glass Castle (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 10 Aug 2017

Dark, dysfunctional, and filled with blinding hope, this is one glass house that's difficult to throw stones at…

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Review of Wind River (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 10 Aug 2017

The cause is just and the ambition is admirable, but the result is middling in both the writing and directing departments…

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Review of Killing Ground (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Aug 2017

Made with the basest of intentions and aimed at the lowest form of humanity there is, let this be the first and last feature from Damien Power…

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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Aug 2017

Bigelow and Boal want to make a moral howl of a movie that burns with felt life, but they wind up with a failure of historical imagination…

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Review of Pop Aye (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Jul 2017

The press notes call it a crowd-pleaser at the Sundance Film Festival, but don't expect this Pop Aye to be strong to the finnich…

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