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Review of The Wife (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Sep 2018

Other than the performances, there is nothing here audiences haven't seen more times than they have their own feet…

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Review of The Nun (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Sep 2018

Were it not for sudden blasts of Dolby fury, there would be nothing to provide shocks, let alone scares…

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Review of We the Animals (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Sep 2018

The conclusion is certain enough to be practically foregone, and if what leads up to it is aggressively arty, it's also artful and frank, a…

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Review of Madeline's Madeline (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 06 Sep 2018

Add another name to the list of talented and charismatic young actresses of color making auspicious debuts of late: Helena Howard, star of…

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Review of Skate Kitchen (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Aug 2018

Less a movie than a visually striking meditation on Being a Girl These Days…

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Review of Operation Finale (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Aug 2018

Ben Kingsley's serene, everybody sh*ts reading of the character is a source of illumination around which everything else in the picture revolves…

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Review of The Bookshop (2017)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Aug 2018

Hang a CLOSED sign in the window: it's another film with a strong female character that's cushioned in the safety and comfort of the recent past…

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Review of 40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Aug 2018

Having never seen an episode of Two and a Half Men or The Big Bang Theory, I can still say it's good they exist, if for no other reason…

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Review of The Happytime Murders (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Aug 2018

The connoisseur of filth within me is pleased to report how wonderfully nasty much of the felted proceedings here are to behold…

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Review of The Little Stranger (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Aug 2018

Everything here is precise: Abrahamson's direction, the understated performances, the intrusive sounds that stop just shy of jarring…

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Review of A-X-L (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 30 Aug 2018

After 2016's Monster Trucks laid a giant goose egg at the box office, what made the folks at Global Road think this similarly themed shaggy…

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Review of The Cakemaker (2017)

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

Credit first-time writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer with pulling off something of a miracle…

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Review of McQueen (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Aug 2018

[The directors] would have done well to shear away the obscuring frills of polite encomiums and pay more attention to the structural…

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Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream (2017)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Aug 2018

Whether you are amused or bemused, it's unlikely that you'll feel much of anything; this is comedy at its frothiest and foamiest…

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Review of The Meg (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Aug 2018

Maybe director John Turteltaub thought the barrage of pathos and yuks would distract from the fact that his star is a very big fish that is…

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Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018)

By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 09 Aug 2018

Not since Bamboozled has a Spike Lee joint been this blunt and tightly rolled…

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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 Generation Wealth (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 02 Aug 2018

Scattered and self-indulgent, a career retrospective in search of a coherent theme…

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Review of The King (2021)

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

The insistence may inspire a furrowed brow here, a rolled eye there, and a shaken fist or knowing nod over yonder, but there's enough…

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Review of The King (2018)

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

The insistence may inspire a furrowed brow here, a rolled eye there, and a shaken fist or knowing nod over yonder, but there's enough…

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