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Review of '71 (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Mar 2015

The grainy, grimy, shadow-strewn look is right for this sort of military noir, and the women who haunt the edges of the conflict are splendid…

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Review of Ballet 422 (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Mar 2015

The fly [on the wall] is very good at getting access...but rather less good at giving context…

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Review of Cinderella (2013)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Mar 2015

The film feels neither dated nor updated. Rather, it treads, with a light and careful step, the difficult middle path of timelessness…

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Review of Cinderella (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Mar 2015

The film feels neither dated nor updated. Rather, it treads, with a light and careful step, the difficult middle path of timelessness…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

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

It may be too sloppy and indulgent to actually call good, but that still leaves room for words like heartfelt, trippy, personal, and even admirable…

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Review of The Salvation (2014)

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

Worth seeing just for the faces, starting with Mads Mikkelsen as the suffering hero, then moving on to Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the rotten, savvy…

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Review of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

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

There's a sweetness to the proceedings that never quite overpowers the melancholy of maturity, and a sympathy for human frailty that stops…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

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

Early and strong contender for this year's best miserable time at the movies…

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Review of Focus (2014)

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

The film's chief pleasure comes from fighting the desire to believe at any given point that the hero is finally being sincere, that now we…

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Review of She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)

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

Intermittently interesting and occasionally compelling history of the feminist movement's early days…

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Review of Focus (2015)

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

The film's chief pleasure comes from fighting the desire to believe at any given point that the hero is finally being sincere, that now we…

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Review of Focus (1994)

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

The film's chief pleasure comes from fighting the desire to believe at any given point that the hero is finally being sincere, that now we…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Feb 2015

The film is richly rooted, with splendid trappings, including pea-soup fogs…

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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

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

Pleasingly thorough and inventive in its treatment of a well worn subject, and quietly smart about dealing with the way things can change over…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Feb 2015

Through it all, Dujardin has great dignity, is hugely likeable, and pulls off touches of comic poignancy not far from Chaplin's…

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Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Feb 2015

Simultaneous spoof, homage, one-upping, and debasement of James Bond, delivered with gory, self-conscious glee by the inimitable Matthew Vaughn…

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Review of The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Feb 2015

It's an impressive achievement: the rendering of a private and extremely particular world in terms that any lover will understand…

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Review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Feb 2015

Children may be delighted, and perhaps also addled…

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Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Feb 2015

The Wachowskis have officially begun cannibalizing their own work…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Feb 2015

At this point, it's tempting to wonder if Jeff Bridges accepts roles chiefly on the basis of whether or not he'll get to sport grizzly facial…

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