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Review of Blockers (2018)

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

On a positive note, this will probably best be remembered for giving the lusty trio of female offspring the ultimate power of post-formal…

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Review of Oh Lucy! (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 23 Mar 2018

At its best, it's a comedy of miscommunication, one that hits an occasional rough spot when the location shifts from Tokyo to SoCal and a…

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Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

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

While I'm generally a sucker for imaginative art direction, the Technicolor gargle of overflorid hues on display here barely sticks to the…

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Review of Flower (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 Feb 2018

It is that rare commodity in today's superhero-driven cinema, and unless I'm forgetting something, one has to go back as far as Igby Goes…

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Review of Early Man (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Feb 2018

The pun-fueled dialogue is a perfect match for the visual ugliness…

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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 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 Thank You for Your Service (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 25 Oct 2017

Keep moving, folks; there's nothing here you haven't seen done better a hundred times before…

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Review of Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 19 Oct 2017

Recreations of the master's past are laughably bad: a numbing state of self-congratulatory and overly theatrical theatricality appears to…

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Review of Lucky (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Oct 2017

A film comprised of first-rate actors, each given the opportunity to spin a yarn or two…

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Review of Lucky (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Oct 2017

A film comprised of first-rate actors, each given the opportunity to spin a yarn or two…

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Review of The Mountain Between Us (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Oct 2017

The romance is forced and phony - after only two weeks together, the two are behaving like an old married couple…

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Review of Lucky (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Oct 2017

A film comprised of first-rate actors, each given the opportunity to spin a yarn or two…

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Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Sep 2017

Maybe one temple of learning will inspire a visit to another: see the movie, then pop into your local biblioteca…

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Review of Gender Wars (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Sep 2017

All that's expected from the leads is that they put forth a competent degree of mimicry; the secondary characters, meanwhile, are left with…

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Review of Battle of the Sexes (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 27 Sep 2017

All that's expected from the leads is that they put forth a competent degree of mimicry; the secondary characters, meanwhile, are left with…

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Review of Beach Rats (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Sep 2017

Let's call this what it is: a fetishistic After-School Special complete with closeups of trimmed pubes and squeaky-clean sphincters…

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Review of Crown Heights (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Sep 2017

The sole fresh twist, one that should have been more than enough to drive the show - one friend dedicating his life to exonerating the…

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Review of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 31 Aug 2017

What we have here is less an exploration of personal artistry than an entry-level history lesson…

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