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Review of Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Jan 2018

It's...not great. But it's better than it has any right to be…

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Review of Den of Thieves (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 Jan 2018

[Butler] tears into his performance as nasty cop (well, sheriff) and lousy husband Nick Flanagan the way Flanagan tears into a crime-scene…

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Review of 12 Strong (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 Jan 2018

Combat scenes seem more interested in the faces than the fracas, missions are undertaken with no apparent outcome, and great difficulties loom…

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Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 Jan 2018

If Anderson's The Master was a swirling miasma, Phantom Thread is an unforgiving dress…

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Review of Paddington 2 (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Jan 2018

It may be difficult to find a review of director and co-writer Paul King's followup to [Paddington] that does not employ some form of the word…

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Review of I, Tonya (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Jan 2018

[Robbie] transforms what could easily have been just another grotesquerie in a grand guignol into a fully rounded, albeit unsympathetic, character…

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Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Dec 2017

It's a story less about the characters involved than it is about the dynamics between them, a late addition to the Symposium's accounts of…

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Review of Molly's Game (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Dec 2017

Word-pusher Aaron Sorkin makes his debut as a director, and whaddya know, he directs a lot like he writes: fast and smooth, bordering on slick…

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Dec 2017

Payne's brand of prickly humanism is on full display here; he seems to revel is the notion that it's only when we're uncomfortable that we…

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Review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Dec 2017

Historians now agree that Barnum wasn't the one who said There's a sucker born every minute, but it's hard to escape the feeling that you're…

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Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Dec 2017

And yet for all that telling about how it was, the film feels much more like happy fantasy than detailed history, a fond look back on the lead-up…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Dec 2017

The devoted will no doubt be delighted; for the rest, a resigned acceptance may be the safest path to enjoyment…

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Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Dec 2017

It's a testament to the storyteller's skill that he manages to cram [so much] into his narrative with nary a lump and still keep his characters…

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Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Dec 2017

If 2016's Café Society was writer-director Woody Allen's attempt to introduce a younger generation to the world of Woody Allen, then this…

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Review of The Disaster Artist (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 08 Dec 2017

Wiseau also makes a pretty good avatar for Franco himself: a mercurial, relentless performer whose ambition encompasses a thrilling willingness…

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Review of Coco (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 25 Nov 2017

Of every Pixar film that deals with family, memory, and loss, ask, Is there sufficient reason for the tears that will inevitably run down my…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 25 Nov 2017

McDonagh works way too hard to inject nearly every scene with his patented solution of acid wit and dark-roast comedy…

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Review of Dealt (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Nov 2017

What he does with cards, a magician can't do, says [Turner's] son and stage manager Asa Spades Turner…

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Review of Bill Nye: Science Guy (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Nov 2017

Biggest takeaway…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Nov 2017

There's some welcome levity, some genuine conversation (as when Bats and Diana share a drink), and a few moments that feel like really good…

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