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Review of Blindspotting (2018)

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

[Casal and Diggs'] talent and charisma are all but undeniable, and their ambition is impossible not to admire, but their execution is…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

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

The McDonald's hamburger of action movies. Well, maybe that's not entirely fair. Maybe the Wendy's…

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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 The King (2017)

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 Equalizer 2 (2018)

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

It's not much of a movie - more a parade of rah-rah triumphs obscuring a batch of logical oddities - which makes Washington's committed…

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Review of Skyscraper (2018)

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

The pleasures here come from watching an extraordinary physical specimen go through a lo-tech workout routine thousands of feet above the…

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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 Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Jul 2018

Would be okay and maybe even fun were it not for the frequent presence of a gruesome ghost haunting the proceedings: a woman in constant…

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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 Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Jun 2018

As if in imitation of the ruthless Mexican drug cartel its heroes go after, director Stefano Sollima's sequel decapitates, disembowels, and…

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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 Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 21 Jun 2018

The story is barrel-proof earnest sentiment, straight no chaser. How to keep the eyes from rolling in response…

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Review of Tag (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 14 Jun 2018

The cast is talented and game. But the game itself is grotesque, largely because of the characters they're forced to play…

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Review of Incredibles 2 (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 13 Jun 2018

Incredibles 2 feels like a rebuke of the audience that came to gawk at a superhero movie - and worse, that had the nerve to identify with…

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