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Review of Our Little Sister (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

Audiences softened by Hollywood cynicism are bound to be confounded by filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda's (After Life, Like Father, Like Son)…

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Review of Equals (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Jul 2016

The DVD box should warn prospective buyers that its contents could cause drowsiness…

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Review of From Afar (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

[Pablo Larrain's] performance here further advances his standing as contemporary cinema's gray little nothing of an answer to the Everyman…

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Review of Neon Bull (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jul 2016

With all the grace and symmetry of a peacock fanning its tail, director Gabriel Mascaro reveals his hand in quixotic blasts of…

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Review of Carnage Park (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 07 Jul 2016

A climax so dark you'll need braille subtitles to get through it…

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Review of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Jun 2016

Commendable intentions be damned; one can't hear the music for the self-applauding…

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Review of Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Jun 2016

The mid-summer release of an adult, effects-free British thriller relating to the collapse of Europe's global financial system timed out…

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Review of The Phenom (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Jun 2016

This love me daddy baseball pic that earns points for spending less than 5 percent of its time on the diamond and refusing to end in open…

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Review of ma ma (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Jun 2016

Not unlike Ali MacGraw in the equally apocryphal Love Story, the closer our heroine inches toward death's door, the more physically…

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Review of Genius (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jun 2016

It's only outside the workplace, on the streets of New York ca…

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Review of Dark Horse (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

Fantasy fulfillment for those wondering what would happen if Ma & Pa Kettle hauled Mr…

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Review of Dheepan (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

Shooting on actual locations and with a cast of nonprofessional actors, writer-director Jacques Audiard keeps the neorealism pumping until…

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Review of Puerto Ricans in Paris (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Jun 2016

Yes, it's predictable. Of course, it follows a formula. But damn if this isn't Guzman's show…

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Review of As I AM: the Life and Times of DJ AM (2015)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Jun 2016

So compelling is Kerslake's handling of the material that by the time it was over, I felt as though I had lost a friend…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 22 May 2016

Burton had a chance to make a powerful statement on the struggle for a woman to achieve artistic recognition and instead settled for…

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Review of T-Rex (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

Secondary characters - a gruff but loveable manager who never expected his first champion was going to be a girl, and a brief romantic…

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Review of Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 18 May 2016

The rags to riches story of the first 17 years in the life of soccer superstar Pelé are covered in this painfully routine biopic…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 11 May 2016

Bateman and Nicole Kidman, too old to convincingly pull off this sibling pair, would have fared better as the parents…

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Review of Rio, I Love You (2014)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 04 May 2016

Countless shots of the Christ the Redeemer statue notwithstanding, for all we're told about the titular location, they might just as well…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Apr 2016

It takes a while for the solid premise to unravel...and for the better portion of its running time Green Room functions as a highly…

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