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Review of London Has Fallen (2016)

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

Somewhere along the line, it may occur to you that Babak Najafi's sequel to 2013's president-in-peril pic Olympus Has Fallen is a sly attack…

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Review of King Georges (2015)

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

By patiently letting events play out past the easy and expected end-note, Frankel has fashioned a fine story out of what might have been merely…

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Review of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

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

Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa move things along fast enough to keep [the problem aspects] from sinking in too deeply, and star Tina…

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Review of Triple 9 (2016)

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

The uneven thing [here] is John Hillcoat's direction: a tense, sustained journey through an apartment while lined up behind a bulletproof shield…

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Review of Eddie the Eagle (2016)

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

For every easy, eye-rolling bit, there's a moment of genuine emotion; the champion jumper's pre-climax speech on what matters in sport is downright…

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Review of Risen (2016)

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

Once the question [of belief] is answered, all that's left is pious illustration, plus maybe a silly chase through the desert…

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Review of Touched with Fire (2016)

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

It's possible that [director] Dalio recognizes the fantastical element to his tale; why else would he conclude with a packed house for a poetry…

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Review of Race (2016)

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

Overstuffed, muddy-headed, heavy-handed, derivative, and weirdly sanitized - and yet it almost works, because who wouldn't thrill to see a…

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Review of Deadpool (2016)

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

An anti-superhero movie (or maybe a super-antihero movie) that might have worked if it had the courage of its lack of convictions…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Feb 2016

Remember movies? The Coen brothers do. Westerns, romances, musicals, dance extravaganzas - the works…

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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

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

A straight-up Boys' Own adventure yarn, set sincerely and squarely in early '50s New England but gussied up with plenty of 21st-century StormWave CGI…

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Review of Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

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

Once again, it's fun to look at and full of wisecracks, which, coupled with the dueling-dads subplot, may be enough to see you through…

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Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

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

Say this for Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace Moretz): no matter how bad things get during the alien-wrought apocalypse, her hair looks great…

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Review of Son of Saul (2015)

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

a riveting, fascinating account of one man's struggle, in the face of terrible suffering, to salvage human dignity through a single act…

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Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

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

[Bay] is hell on manly banter amid the explosions (Just another Tuesday night in Benghazi), and also moments carefully calculated to make you…

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Review of Anomalisa (2015)

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

A very fine portrait of the despair at the heart of a comfortable middle-aged white man in America circa right about now…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Jan 2016

Not a total misfire, but this first feature from Jason Zada fails to capitalize on its fine setup, its competent cast, and its exquisite location…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Jan 2016

Not a total misfire, but this first feature from Jason Zada fails to capitalize on its fine setup, its competent cast, and its exquisite location…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Jan 2016

The journey is long and painstaking, the better to give you a sense of just what is being opposed to what…

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Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Jan 2016

What was it about this cramped, underdeveloped parlor drama -- the majority of which takes place on one set -- that caused Tarantino to think 70mm…

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