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Review of The Debt (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 02 Sep 2011

The entire cast is excellent -- even the usually vanilla Worthington -- although the MVP is clearly Chastain…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 02 Sep 2011

The Guard is terrific entertainment, and I can't wait to re-watch it on Blu-ray, when I can turn on the subtitles and catch the handful of…

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Review of Our Idiot Brother (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 02 Sep 2011

While the movie coulda/shoulda been longer than its scant 90 minutes, it's actually surprising just how much memorable material is packed into…

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Review of The Guard (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 02 Sep 2011

The Guard is terrific entertainment, and I can't wait to re-watch it on Blu-ray, when I can turn on the subtitles and catch the handful of…

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Review of Point Blank (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 02 Sep 2011

Art-house patrons who made the French thriller Tell No One a specialized hit three years ago won't want to miss Point Blank, another breathless…

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Review of Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

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

Rutger Hauer is the show, the whole show, and nothing but the show in Hobo with a Shotgun, a throwback that, for all its bloodletting and supposed…

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Review of Conan the Barbarian (2011)

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

A humorless endurance test from the director who previously desecrated horror staples both good (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) and bad (Friday…

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Review of The Whistleblower (2010)

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

Film has a responsibility to educate as well as entertain, and for those up to the task, this is an ofttimes powerful experience, with writer-director…

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Review of Hobo with a Shotgun (2007)

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

Rutger Hauer is the show, the whole show, and nothing but the show in Hobo with a Shotgun, a throwback that, for all its bloodletting and supposed…

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Review of Sarah's Key (2010)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 19 Aug 2011

The performances by Kristin Scott Thomas and especially Melusine Mayance (as the young Sarah) are key to the picture's success…

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Review of Another Earth (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 19 Aug 2011

In one of those cinematic chicken-or-the-egg conundrums, viewers are left to wonder what came first to the folks who wrote Another Earth: a…

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Review of Fright Night (2011)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 19 Aug 2011

If you weren't around in 1985 to enjoy it, the original Fright Night is worth a Netflix rental…

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Review of 30 Minutes or Less (2011)

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

If there's one thing we've learned from a century-plus of cinema, it's that just about any subject can be explored for humor if the right people…

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Review of The Help (2011)

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

Many of the conflicts play out as expected, and Bryce Dallas Howard's racist housewife proves to be about as subtle as Cruella De Vil…

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Review of The Change-Up (2011)

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

The usual mix of anus-and-penis-fixated gags, ritual female humiliation (Leslie Mann, as always, deserves far better), and insincere, late-inning…

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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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