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Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 05 Aug 2011

Created by WETA Digital and played by Andy Serkis, Caesar is a CGI triumph, although there's still an artificiality about the look that keeps…

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Review of Friends (With Benefits) (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 04 Aug 2011

While I agree with Kunis's character that Katherine Heigl rom-coms are awful, I also think a film needs to be a lot better than Friends with…

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Review of Friends with Benefits (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 04 Aug 2011

While I agree with Kunis's character that Katherine Heigl rom-coms are awful, I also think a film needs to be a lot better than Friends with…

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Review of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 04 Aug 2011

Wayne Wang is perhaps best known for directing the lovely screen adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, but there's no joy to be found anywhere in…

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Review of Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 31 Jul 2011

The picture's army of authors has elected to merely plug in conventional story devices that would have worked just as well in movies named…

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Review of Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 31 Jul 2011

Even moviegoers suffering from superhero burnout might want to stand up and salute Captain America, which doesn't match the excellence of X-Men…

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Review of Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 31 Jul 2011

The secret to the film's success starts with its blue-chip cast, the summer's finest gathering of thespians with the possible exception of…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 15 Jul 2011

More than ever, Radcliffe is asked to take control of the screen as his boy wizard faces his own demons before finally facing Voldemort, and…

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Review of Horrible Bosses (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 08 Jul 2011

Two-thirds of a funny movie, Horrible Bosses takes its irresistible premise an admirable distance before pulling a Wrong Way Corrigan and heading…

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Review of Zookeeper (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 08 Jul 2011

Leave it to Zoolander to have the foresight to succinctly sum up Zookeeper…

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Review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 01 Jul 2011

Bay's fascistic tendencies aren't quite as pronounced as in the last installment, but there isn't anything this man won't do for the sake of…

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Review of Larry Crowne (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 01 Jul 2011

Larry decides to go back to school, only it was a helluva lot more fun when Rodney's Dangerfield's Thornton Melon chose this route 25 years ago…

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Review of Cars 2 (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 24 Jun 2011

The new runt of the Pixar litter. But so what…

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Review of Bad Teacher (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 24 Jun 2011

It's no Bad Santa, but Bad Teacher brings just enough naughty behavior to the table to make it a decent watch for viewers tired of PG-13 timidity…

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Review of The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 24 Jun 2011

Its laughs are like stealth bombers, sneaking up on us to the extent that we suddenly find ourselves chortling even as we're wrapped up in…

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Review of Incendies (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 24 Jun 2011

Of the four 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominees that I've seen, Canada's Incendies ranks as the only one remotely worthy of the prize…

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Review of The Tree of Life (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 17 Jun 2011

Its neatest trick is that it feels like a Malick autobiography even as it directly speaks to receptive viewers on a one-to-one basis…

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Review of Green Lantern (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 17 Jun 2011

To compare this to truly abysmal efforts like Catwoman and Batman & Robin would be an exercise in misguided grandstanding; at the same time,…

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Review of The Double Hour (2009)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 17 Jun 2011

The Double Hour obviously wants to be compared to efforts by the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma and Christopher Nolan, but it's…

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Review of Hair (1979)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 12 Jun 2011

With the possible exception of A Hard Day's Night, it gets my vote as the all-time best rock film…

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