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Review of The Phenom (2016)

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

This love me daddy baseball pic that earns points for spending less than 5 percent of its time on the diamond and refusing to end in open competition...so…

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Review of Tickled (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jun 2016

There are lessons to be learned here; hopefully, they will shine through the murk…

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Review of Wiener-Dog (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jun 2016

The style tends toward the artificial and the humor toward the archly droll, but the stories themselves are perfectly sincere…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jun 2016

There are good bits among the bad (the giant's bullying, bratty kinfolk especially), but mostly, there's simply not enough there…

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Review of The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 29 Jun 2016

Director Yates has got a knack for conveying the grandeur of Africa, the fierce power of the animals, the currents of straightforward emotion…

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Review of The Shallows (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Jun 2016

The progression from personal drama to surf film to (wo)man vs…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Jun 2016

Yes, Refn indulges his camera to the point of luxuriating, but then, he has reason to believe you'll stay with him…

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Review of ma ma (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Jun 2016

Not unlike Ali MacGraw in the equally apocryphal Love Story, the closer our heroine inches toward death's door, the more physically attractive…

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Review of Central Intelligence (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jun 2016

The eventual resolution is entirely too neat 'n tidy in light of the (sometimes funny) crazy that precedes it: what began as a dark comedy…

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Review of De Palma (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jun 2016

De Palma enthusiasts will benefit the most here (small surprise), but there's good material for anyone interested in how their cinematic sausage…

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Review of Genius (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jun 2016

It's only outside the workplace, on the streets of New York ca…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jun 2016

Directors Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane make it very clear what you are supposed to feel and when you are supposed to feel it…

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Review of Now You See Me 2 (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

And of course, there's no danger of mistaking computer-enhanced trickery for actual sleight of hand, so even the modest but honest pleasure…

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Review of Dark Horse (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

Fantasy fulfillment for those wondering what would happen if Ma & Pa Kettle hauled Mr…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

There are plenty of flaws - an overabundance of storylines chief among them, followed by the occasional slip into silly action and/or overdone…

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Review of Dheepan (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

Shooting on actual locations and with a cast of nonprofessional actors, writer-director Jacques Audiard keeps the neorealism pumping until…

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Review of Puerto Ricans in Paris (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

Yes, it's predictable. Of course, it follows a formula. But damn if this isn't Guzman's show…

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Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

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

Feels remarkably like it was conceived and created by (as opposed to merely for) 12-year-old boys…

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Review of As I AM: the Life and Times of DJ AM (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Jun 2016

So compelling is Kerslake's handling of the material that by the time it was over, I felt as though I had lost a friend…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

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

Easily escapes the fading headlines about a botched campaign to become an enduring portrait of a political animal caught in a technological trap…

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