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Review of Aloft (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 03 Jun 2015

A film for true believers: people who can accept - or at least wrestle with - the idea that God (or whatever) can ask you to do things that…

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Review of Sunshine Superman (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 May 2015

The result is as much the portrait of a marriage as it is history of a sport and its founder, and if it occasionally feels repetitive or murky,…

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Review of Aloha (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 May 2015

It's a pity: with a little more craft, this could have been a tropical noir with a heart…

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Review of I'll See You in My Dreams (2003)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 21 May 2015

An admirable take on the winter of discontent that may arrive toward the end…

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Review of I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 21 May 2015

An admirable take on the winter of discontent that may arrive toward the end…

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Review of Good Kill (2015)

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

The audience seems likely to leave feeling scolded or pandered to, depending. Not a great time…

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Review of Tomorrowland (2015)

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

A gloppy, scattered sop to the power of positive thinking from director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, which offered a much sharper take on the…

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Review of Every Secret Thing (2005)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 May 2015

The mystery-movie-of-the-week premise is buoyed by the evenly detailed performances from the four female leads…

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Review of Every Secret Thing (2014)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 May 2015

The mystery-movie-of-the-week premise is buoyed by the evenly detailed performances from the four female leads…

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Review of Felix and Meira (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 May 2015

Director Maxime Giroux gets good performances from leads Martin Dubreuil and Hadas Yaron...But the romantic mood is asked to cover for too…

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Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 May 2015

It's a pitiless, primitive, primal world [Miller's] built - from its medicine to its religion to its tribal diplomacy - and it's wondrous to behold…

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Review of Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 May 2015

The grim arithmetic of sequels demands more of what worked the first time: more camp, more sincerity. Charm doesn't stand a chance…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 May 2015

Whatever quantity of soap froths up Thomas Vinterberg's presentation of Thomas Hardy's novel, it does nothing to fade out the lush colors that…

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Review of The D Train (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 May 2015

Sadly, the film lacks its hero's willingness to go there for the sake of glory, and winds up merely middling - a fatal flaw…

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Review of Welcome to Me (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 May 2015

What starts out looking like a quirky attack on magical thinking turns out to be a sustained assault on television: the way it subsumes and…

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Review of Maggie (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 May 2015

Come for Arnold Schwarzenegger's wrinkled visage and grizzled beard; stay for Abigail Breslin's fine teen-facing-death pathos…

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Review of Dirty Hands (2014)

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

The dialogue is as spare as the story; the richness comes from the performances of stars Cristian James Abvincula and Jarlin Javier Martinez,…

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Review of Cheatin' (2014)

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

The story is stuffed with exaggeration, elongation, elaboration, but it's all in the service of making a commonplace circumstance - love -…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2015

Whedon is mostly up to the task of keeping all his balls in the air, though he's not above using some glib speechmaking and ridiculous action…

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Review of The Water Diviner (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Apr 2015

If you can keep in mind that the whole thing is an Australian tweak of the magic carpet story from The Arabian Nights, you can probably enjoy…

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