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Review of Before I Fall (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Mar 2017

Deutch's naturalistic performance grounds the various layers of the story in a manner that keeps it from becoming either boring or wildly unrealistic…

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Review of XX (2017)

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

Two out of four is not a bad average, particularly when the half in question aren't pestiferous enough to warrant a ruckus…

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Review of A United Kingdom (2016)

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

Screenwriter Guy Hibbert and Asante pull off a precision balancing act, illuminating the intensity of the love the couple shared and never…

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Review of Get Out (2017)

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

Cultural appropriation shifts from 'problematic' to 'horrific' in writer-director Jordan Peele's sharp take on the scary world of stuff white…

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Review of A Cure for Wellness (2017)

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

[Director Verbinski] takes the campy dread of Hammer horror films (Horror of Dracula, et alia) and builds it into a a gorgeous, epic assault…

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Review of Fist Fight (2017)

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

[Day] succeeds, however, at carrying the film, partly through sympathetic wretchedness and partly through sheer energy…

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Review of The Great Wall (2016)

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

Something bland and familiar to make the keening wail of the (beautiful) funeral ceremony a little less foreign, and the brightly color-coded…

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Review of Saving Banksy (2017)

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

Not a patch on its conceptually oriented precursor Exit Through the Gift Shop, so long as the subject of filmmaking is avoided, this should…

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Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Feb 2017

Here's the problem with avenging angels: after a while, their invincibility gets both boring and silly, and the viewer starts pining for something…

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Review of The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Feb 2017

It may look like a children's movie, but it feels like it's aimed at Mommy and (more likely) Daddy…

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Review of Strike a Pose (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Feb 2017

The film isn't overly interested in gory details, however; it prefers to push a narrative of hope and healing, so much so that it concludes…

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Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Feb 2017

[James Baldwin's] Remember this House was an unfinished work; so too, observes [director] Peck, is America's struggle with race…

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Review of Fire at Sea (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Feb 2017

Who needs voiceovers when a director's camera has this much to say…

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Review of Alone in Berlin (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Feb 2017

Dignified to the point of absurdity, this fact-based dud never gets off the ground, thanks to director Vincent Perez's failure to create -…

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Review of Gold (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Jan 2017

It's hard to call this ode to the common businessman a success, but it's just a little bit harder to call it a failure…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

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

A filmmaker telling his story in pictures and the limitlessness of control he brings to his art. What more can one ask of cinema…

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Review of A Dog's Purpose (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Jan 2017

Whatever a dog's purpose might be, the movie's purpose is clear: to make you smile and say, Awww. Woof…

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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

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

Sure enough, Andy Kaufman's prankster and premeditatedly abrasive second-self was the impetus behind this epic one-joke comedy from German…

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Review of Gold (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Jan 2017

It's hard to call this ode to the common businessman a success, but it's just a little bit harder to call it a failure…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jan 2017

The film is well worth a look, if just for the performances; just know going in that director Mills calls upon his cast and script to do most…

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