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Review of Indignation (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Aug 2016

Longtime screenwriter and producer James Schamus adapts longtime novelist Philip Roth's novel of love and death and Midwestern collegiate life,…

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Review of The Innocents (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Aug 2016

Director and co-writer Anne Fontaine makes every shot and every exchange count in her tender but penetrating exploration of sisterhood in a…

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Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Aug 2016

If it were a little better, it would demand a proper autopsy to figure out what the hell happened. (Ayer made Fury just two years ago!)…

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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Jul 2016

Director Paul Greengrass tries to up the perambulatory drama with lots of cuts, swishes, jiggles, and wobbles from his camera and swellings…

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Review of Nerve (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Jul 2016

If it collapses in the end by going dark and also bonkers and bringing in hackers ex machina to clean up its mess, well, directors Ariel Schulman…

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Review of Our Little Sister (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

Audiences softened by Hollywood cynicism are bound to be confounded by filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda's (After Life, Like Father, Like Son) gentle,…

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Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

Justin Lin has taken over the helm from J.J. Abrams, but he's not about to change course, at least as far as reusing old material goes…

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Review of Equals (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

The DVD box should warn prospective buyers that its contents could cause drowsiness…

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Review of Café Society (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

It's handsome, and pleasant, and polished, and sedate. You won't laugh or cry. You may, however, smile or sigh…

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Review of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

It's not for all tastes. But it is very much for certain tastes: the over the top, acid-tongued, camptastic sort…

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Review of Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

With each passing entry in the Ice Age franchise, the gap between the anarchic joy of the brief bits featuring Scrat the Squirrel and the plodding,…

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Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

Director Taika Waititi proves expert in his management of tone, such that the farcical elements, however numerous, don't detract from the very…

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Review of From Afar (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

[Pablo Larrain's] performance here further advances his standing as contemporary cinema's gray little nothing of an answer to the Everyman…

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Review of Neon Bull (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

With all the grace and symmetry of a peacock fanning its tail, director Gabriel Mascaro reveals his hand in quixotic blasts of expressionistic…

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Review of Captain Fantastic (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

After a while, you begin to suspect that the smugness is the point…

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Review of The Infiltrator (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

When director Brad Furman isn't focusing on huge closeups (which seems to be an awful lot of the time), he's focusing on all the wrong details…

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Review of Carnage Park (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Jul 2016

A climax so dark you'll need braille subtitles to get through it…

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Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Jul 2016

While a Busby Berkeley number set in a sausage factory is good fun, too much of the film feels like hot dog filler: inoffensive but also…

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Review of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Jun 2016

Commendable intentions be damned; one can't hear the music for the self-applauding…

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Review of Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Jun 2016

The mid-summer release of an adult, effects-free British thriller relating to the collapse of Europe's global financial system timed out perfectly…

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