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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

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

Director Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas), who also adapted the screenplay from Dave Eggers novel, displays a fine eye and a light touch with cultural…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

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

Ultimately, Cheadle's labor of love prizes the music-making over the music, and maybe even over the man…

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Review of Sing Street (2016)

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

John Carney (Begin Again) once again tries to reheat a Once soufflé and instead serves up a flat, cheerily antiseptic period musical…

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Review of The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

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

Even the good bits lack zip and verve, and the bad bits leave you wondering why director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan (who did visual effects on the…

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Review of Criminal (2016)

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

All the ingredients are there for a pleasant pander to grumpy old white men: the craggy actors, the foreign bad guys wielding confusing technology,…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

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

If only Nixon could go to China, then perhaps only Elvis could go to Nixon: a rock 'n' roller beloved by America who loved America right back,…

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Review of Mr. Right (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Apr 2016

Director Paco Cabezas seems technically capable, and manages to make New Orleans look like a place instead of a romantic ideal or ruined cityscape…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Apr 2016

When it comes to overstrung, antisocial characters, Jake Gyllenhaal sure knows how to pick (and breathe new life into) them…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Apr 2016

Hawke's performance ably conveys the painful, humble work of climbing back up the mountain, and writer-director Robert Budreau mostly sticks…

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Review of Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Apr 2016

A moseying tour of life on the Lakota reservation, circa right now: the empty beauty of the badlands, the ancient struggle with alcohol, and…

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Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Apr 2016

The whole thing feels like a fond reminiscence conducted under the influence of some blissful chemical that allows you to remember things the…

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Review of Hardcore Henry (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Apr 2016

The story exists mainly to provide reason and shape for the frenzy of carnage: constant, numbing, and in the film's view at least, occasionally funny…

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Review of I Saw the Light (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 31 Mar 2016

There's some drinkin', some cheatin', some yellin', and some cryin…

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Review of Remember (2016)

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

There is no actor currently at work capable of embodying the complexity of this character like Plummer…

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Review of Remember (2015)

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

There is no actor currently at work capable of embodying the complexity of this character like Plummer…

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Review of Remember (2015)

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

There is no actor currently at work capable of embodying the complexity of this character like Plummer…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 23 Mar 2016

In a word, exhausting. In a few more, overblown, overstuffed, repetitive, bombastic, and sometimes just dumb…

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Review of Eye in the Sky (2007)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Mar 2016

A sober but not-quite-somber drone drama that ably portrays the complicated moral calculus involved in modern warfare…

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Review of Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Mar 2016

Field does a good job of making Doris feel like a person, and manages to finish with grace even as all around her crumbles and stumbles…

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Review of Zootopia (2016)

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

A buddy-cop comedy crossed with a political thriller and mashed up against a social drama…

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