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Review of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

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

Star Andy Samberg & Co…

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Review of Hockney (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 May 2016

It takes nearly an hour before anyone discusses anything conceptual, but what comes before is sufficiently entertaining, and what comes after,…

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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 May 2016

Without a compelling villain, it's hard to resist feeling like it's just more of the (mutated) same…

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Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 May 2016

A solid kids' movie in the old style…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 May 2016

Burton had a chance to make a powerful statement on the struggle for a woman to achieve artistic recognition and instead settled for another…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

There's no reason why it shouldn't be both great fun and warmly human, but alas, it just isn't either…

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Review of T-Rex (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

Secondary characters - a gruff but loveable manager who never expected his first champion was going to be a girl, and a brief romantic subplot…

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Review of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

It might have worked if everyone involved had maybe cared a little more and/or tied everything together, but instead, we get dangling ball…

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Review of Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

The rags to riches story of the first 17 years in the life of soccer superstar Pelé are covered in this painfully routine biopic…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

Fiennes dominates the screen, his formidable co-stars, and the even more formidable Mediterranean scenery as a man both possessed and obsessed…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 11 May 2016

Bateman and Nicole Kidman, too old to convincingly pull off this sibling pair, would have fared better as the parents…

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Review of High-Rise (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 11 May 2016

Just realistic enough to be harrowing, just fantastical enough to be fascinating, just nasty enough to have you looking for the building's…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 11 May 2016

One long series of narrative gotchas masquerading as moral or intellectual sophistication before finally revealing that it offers nothing more…

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Review of Rio, I Love You (2014)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 May 2016

Countless shots of the Christ the Redeemer statue notwithstanding, for all we're told about the titular location, they might just as well spread…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 May 2016

It's all a bit much and a bit spot-on, but oh, is it ever lovely to look at and suffused with sincere emotion…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 May 2016

Mostly, this one registers as sound and fury, signifying sequels…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2016

It takes a while for the solid premise to unravel...and for the better portion of its running time Green Room functions as a highly effective…

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Review of Keanu (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2016

There's pleasure in the easy rapport between the leads, but as events take their course, it's a good thing that cat is cute…

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Review of Pali Road (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2016

Credit star Michelle Chen for playing it with a straight face…

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Review of Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2016

In the end, it's a museum piece: even the drunken screaming matches between Hemingway and his wife feel staged…

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