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Review of Pixels (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 24 Jul 2015

Often playing like Ghostbusters if it had been made by Billy Bob Thornton's Slingblade character, Pixels is sloppy in virtually every department…

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Review of Paper Towns (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 24 Jul 2015

With characters who are often as intricate and three-dimensional as an origami figure but a script that remains hopelessly paper-thin, Paper…

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Review of Pixels (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 24 Jul 2015

Often playing like Ghostbusters if it had been made by Billy Bob Thornton's Slingblade character, Pixels is sloppy in virtually every department…

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Review of Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jul 2015

Truffaut playfully employs various filmmaking techniques throughout the picture…

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Review of The Killers (1946)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jul 2015

Robert Siodmak directs this for maximum shadowy impact, aided by a crackerjack script from Anthony Veiller (and an uncredited John Huston)…

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Review of The Best of Everything (1959)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jul 2015

The Best of Everything earned Oscar nominations for Best Original Song (the title tune, warbled by Johnny Mathis) and Best Color Costume Design,…

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Review of A Month in the Country (1987)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jul 2015

A Month in the Country is a movie of morsel-sized pleasures, yet there's a sizable joy to be had in catching Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh…

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Review of What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jul 2015

A Christopher Guest-styled mockumentary about vampires sounds only a little less obvious and opportunistic than a found-footage feature about…

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Review of Vanilla Sky (2001)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jul 2015

This isn't a typically dumbed-down rehash and, as such, it dissatisfied the rank and file of multiplex moviegoers but earned the appreciation…

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Review of Old Gringo (1989)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 21 Jul 2015

Truthfully, it isn't as bad as its reputation, registering less as an out-and-out disaster and more as a missed opportunity…

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Review of Ant-Man (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 17 Jul 2015

After the overkill of Avengers: Age of Ultron, it's nice to see Marvel return to a comparatively small-scale effort -- in more ways than one…

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Review of Mr. Holmes (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 17 Jul 2015

Honors the Arthur Conan Doyle legacy as much as the engrossing BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch -- and certainly more than those daft…

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Review of Trainwreck (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 17 Jul 2015

Its length is felt toward the end, when it seems like it's going to be dragged out as interminably as a Peter Jackson Middle-earth saga…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 10 Jul 2015

One of the central tragedies dissected in Amy is that Winehouse loved two vile, reprehensible men -- her father and her husband -- to such…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 10 Jul 2015

One of the central tragedies dissected in Amy is that Winehouse loved two vile, reprehensible men -- her father and her husband -- to such…

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Review of Magic Mike XXL (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 03 Jul 2015

It's sexy, it's stylish, it's well-paced, and it's unexpectedly pro-women, treating the female characters as respectfully as the male strippers…

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Review of Fled (1996)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 03 Jul 2015

My fondest memory involving Fled isn't in the film; it was the moment on Siskel & Ebert when Roger Ebert stated, 'I guess it sort of holds…

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Review of Absolute Beginners (1986)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 03 Jul 2015

Absolute Beginners' ranks as one of David Bowie's greatest songs, and it's just a shame the frustrating movie of the same name doesn't come…

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Review of The Young Lions (1958)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 03 Jul 2015

What's most impressive about Dean Martin's turn is that while his co-stars are Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, the era's most celebrated…

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Review of Dog Soldiers (2002)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 03 Jul 2015

Neil Marshall's The Descent ranks as one of the best horror films of modern times, but the British writer-director already had another grade-A…

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