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Review of Rango (2011)

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

A work that in its finest moments comes across as a Coen Brothers film with anthropomorphic animals instead of flesh-and-blood humans…

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Review of Cedar Rapids (2011)

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

Cedar Rapids is a low-rent version of the sort of raunchy comedy that's all the rage these days, but it wears its modesty rather well…

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Review of Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

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

For all the difference it would make, they could have just booted the Elton John tunes and instead employed, say, Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street…

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Review of Hall Pass (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 25 Feb 2011

It's hard to wax philosophic about a film in which a portly guy stoned out of his gourd elects to use a golf course sand trap like so much…

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Review of The Illusionist (1901)

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

It's a lovingly crafted film that smoothly alternates between being bittersweet and simply sweet, yet the occasionally aloof visual style frequently…

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Review of The Illusionist (2010)

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

It's a lovingly crafted film that smoothly alternates between being bittersweet and simply sweet, yet the occasionally aloof visual style frequently…

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Review of The Company Men (2010)

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

Luckily, Bobby's brother-in-law Jack (Kevin Costner), a salt-of-the-earth construction worker, is on hand to remind everyone that it's better…

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Review of Just Go with It (2011)

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

Any potential is negated by bad casting choices -- [including] screen irritant Nick Swardson, a useless Dave Matthews and a slumming Nicole…

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Review of The Illusionist (2009)

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

It's a lovingly crafted film that smoothly alternates between being bittersweet and simply sweet, yet the occasionally aloof visual style frequently…

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Review of The Mechanic (2011)

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

Yet one more formula flick about a taciturn killer who, despite his penchant for slaying and maiming, actually turns out to be the kind of…

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Review of Another Year (2010)

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

To state that the film has no real plot is to miss the point completely: The characters ARE the plot, weaving enough personal detail through…

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Review of Biutiful (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 28 Jan 2011

Like Babel, it takes some interesting ideas and belabors them for well over two fidgety hours…

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Review of Somewhere (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 28 Jan 2011

Sofia Coppola's 2003 Lost in Translation was such an unblinking masterpiece -- one of the two or three best films of its entire decade -- that…

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Review of No Strings Attached (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jan 2011

Think of it as a Last Tango in Paris for the Internet generation, with cell phones instead of butter as the story's chief accessory…

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Review of The Green Hornet (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jan 2011

Seth Rogen, superhero…

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Review of Citizen Kane (1941)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 20 Jan 2011

Citizen Kane has been cited as the greatest film ever made from so many different quarters, it's a wonder that a Congressional law hasn't been…

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Review of Rabbit Hole (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 14 Jan 2011

One of the best films of 2010, Rabbit Hole features a devastating performance by Nicole Kidman that would deserve every Best Actress prize…

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Review of Blue Valentine (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 14 Jan 2011

This punishing drama is worth a look thanks to the excellent work by the leads as well as Cianfrance's ability to employ the appropriate mood…

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Review of Made in Dagenham (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 14 Jan 2011

It's too slight to be considered the feel-good movie of the year; we'll call it the feel-pretty-good movie of the year and leave it at that…

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Review of Casino Jack (2010)

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

The film's biggest fault is that it tackles the whole sordid affair like a comedy…

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