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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 Oct 2015

A Bond film should feature a menacing villain who's also just a touch daffy; Javier Bardem has more fun than anybody else onscreen as a rogue…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Sep 2015

Ridley Scott's nuts-and-bolts answer to the existential drama of Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity works best when it keeps its camera on Damon...as…

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Review of Martian (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Sep 2015

Ridley Scott's nuts-and-bolts answer to the existential drama of Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity works best when it keeps its camera on Damon...as…

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Review of Coming Home (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Sep 2015

Less shocking than [director Yimou Zhang's] previous effort, but no less heartbreaking…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Sep 2015

Throughout, Villeneuve excels at approaching the carnage to come from a great, safe distance, and the message seems clear: here is a problem…

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Review of Sleeping with Other People (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Sep 2015

Sudeikis' smooth charisma and Brie's wide-eyed charm almost carry the film, but while Headland bravely chooses to skip certain expected rom-com…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 Sep 2015

The onslaught [of gags] isn't painful, but neither does it do much to distract from the ho-hum story…

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Review of Slow Learners (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Sep 2015

While it's true that many of the scenes would be hard to perform without breaking into laughter, it's often difficult to share in the mirth…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Sep 2015

Depp puts on a good show, but the movie doesn't really move…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Sep 2015

The opening text lets you know that prior to 1996, no one had died during a commercial expedition to the world's highest peak…

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Review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Sep 2015

Resist the temptation to count the number of times people urge each other to Go, go, go! and Come on! It will only lead to grief…

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Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Sep 2015

There's pleasure in the film's look and the dialogue, but director Edward Zwick overworks his presentation - too much exposition, too many…

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Review of Learning to Drive (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Sep 2015

Together, [Kingsley and Clarkson] have so much to learn, and the operation of an automobile provides so many opportunities for metaphor…

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Review of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Sep 2015

Technology was [Jobs'] means for engaging the world and fulfilling himself, and he figured out how to make it ours…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Aug 2015

Thrillingly Biblical, in both the Old and New Testament sense…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (1984)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Aug 2015

Thrillingly Biblical, in both the Old and New Testament sense…

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Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Aug 2015

A winning, slightly screwball investigation of the fraught relationship between writer and subject, or maybe artist and muse, or maybe both…

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Review of We Are Your Friends (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Aug 2015

[If you see it], see it for Wes Bentley's masterful, deadpan performance as the gaunt, aging eminence - 36 is like 75 in DJ years - who pulls…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Aug 2015

The action-movie absurdity is still in place, but so is Landis' muddy-bloody touch: by the end, Eisenberg's face is a purple, swollen wreck,…

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Review of Best of Enemies (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Aug 2015

What followed [in the debates] was not so much a clash of well-articulated ideas as a clash of highly articulate persons who regarded ideas…

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