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Review of Christopher Robin (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Aug 2018

Poo is too kind a word to describe the flat, gray nature of Disney's reenvisioned Hundred Acre Wood and the trademarked bland anonymity…

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Review of Eighth Grade (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 26 Jul 2018

Fisher's performance is nothing short of cringeworthy (high praise in this case)…

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Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

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

Telemarketers as targets from which satire flows eternal were spigotted about the same time as mall cops, and that's not all this…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

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

Debra Granik directs with a touch that's as gentle on the audience as bees are to Tom…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)

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

Don't insult your children by letting them near this…

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Review of Whitney (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Jul 2018

For much of its two-hour running time, we watch the life slowly being sucked out of a legend; the last thirty-minutes are consumed by ineffability…

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Review of The House of Tomorrow (2019)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Jul 2018

The boys are terrific, particularly Butterfield, who makes something wonderful out of discovering a grilled cheese sandwich and a can of soda…

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Review of Boundaries (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Jun 2018

[Plummer] is incapable of mediocrity, but damn if the script doesn't draw him close to the edge…

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Review of Uncle Drew (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Jun 2018

Leave Jurassic World to the kiddies and spend a few hours in the dark with these irresistible dinosaurs…

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Review of Ideal Home (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Jun 2018

The once considerable Andrew Fleming (Bad Dreams, The Craft, Dick) writes and directs with an eye cast in the direction of a weekly sitcom,…

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Review of Nancy (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 21 Jun 2018

Prepare yourself: it's not often that a movie presents us with a central character as unremittingly sad as this…

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Review of Ocean's Eight (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Jun 2018

The best than can be said is Eigil Bryld's cinematography is easier on the eyes than a dimmed screensaver…

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Review of American Animals (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Jun 2018

A narrative drama wherein beats the heart of a documentary…

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Review of Filmworker (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 24 May 2018

Next time you watch a Kubruck movie, take note of the high-contrast black and white, or of how consistent the colors have remained over the…

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Review of Show Dogs (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 May 2018

It's true that technology has come a long way since Tex Avery first added animated mouths to real-life animals, but what good is scientific…

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Review of Book Club (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 May 2018

[Director] Holdermann must have been eager to make a comedy in the worst way. Unfortunately, that's exactly how it turned out…

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Review of Beirut (2018)

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

With four Bourne thrillers to his credit, it's safe to assume that screenwriter Tony Gilroy could have penned this in his sleep. He didn't…

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Review of Baja (2018)

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

The cast is appealing, the location work in Baja is ridiculously colorful, and if you don't go in expecting too much, you won't be disappointed…

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Review of Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)

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

I'm glad to report that I not only saw the tale of a soldier and his loyal pooch through to the end; at one point, I used a shirt cuff to…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Apr 2018

The best thing to be said of this well-intentioned film is that it doesn't resort to lecturing…

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