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Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

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

The real star turns out to be the play itself: the early masterpiece of a now-deceased writer, a work of such mirrorlike perfection that it…

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Review of The Riot Club (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 Apr 2015

Who's up for a little blunt-force social commentary about the haves and have-nots, set in the rarefied clime of Oxford University…

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Review of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 Apr 2015

A great film for people who are tired of associating the color black with sadness and despair: now, both of those things are available in snowy white…

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Review of Ned Rifle (2015)

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

Hartley is at his Hartleyest here, meaning, among other things, that a fair chunk of the dialogue sounds like a pronouncement, aimed as much…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Apr 2015

Noah Baumbach is still swinging away at generational divides and the plight of the artist, but here, he trades in his rapier for a foam rubber cudgel…

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Review of Effie Gray (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Apr 2015

Thompson herself plays a sort of proto-feminist advisor, but the enemy here isn't misogyny so much as it is gynophobia…

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Review of Furious 7 (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 01 Apr 2015

What transpires is grimmer than what's come before, and without the sense of fun, the absurdity of the action becomes less enjoyable…

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Review of HOME (2014)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2017)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2016)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Seymour: An Introduction (2015)

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

By the end of our introduction, Bernstein emerges as a man who has found a way to build order out of life's chaos through music…

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Review of Home (2015)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2016)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2015)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2016)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Queen & Country (2015)

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

In short, [you may realize] how expert presentation can draw you into a world, immerse you in the lives of others, and make you sorry to leave…

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Review of Home (2015)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Home (2014)

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

Frenetic direction and supercharged cuteness pitch in to aid in the distraction, and it's almost enough to produce a kind of numbness…

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Review of Insurgent (2015)

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

It's all a bit of an unengaging muddle, covered over with concrete grunge, clean white labs, and stagy special effects…

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Review of Big Significant Things (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Mar 2015

At the very least, Craig is an unlikable character that Lloyd and Reisberg still manage to make compelling, even though there's not a moment…

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