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The Bourne Legacy: Spy series keeps runningnew
No Matt Damon? No problem!
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
08-13-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: The Bourne Legacy
Your Sister's Sister worth knowingnew
The dialogue in Your Sister's Sister is so natural, flowing and unforced that it's a wonder audience members don't frequently call out the makers of other movies for penning lines that sound as if they could only have come from a screenwriter's keyboard.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-29-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Lynn Shelton, Mark Duplass
The Amazing Spider-Man: Tangled webnew
Perhaps it's best to think of Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man and Marc Webb's 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man as the cinematic equivalents of Coke Classic and New Coke.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-29-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: The Amazing Spider-Man
Moonrise Kingdom takes the crownnew
Equal measures sweet and bittersweet, Moonrise Kingdom is nothing less than Wes Anderson's best film to date.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-29-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom
Ted: Bear hugs for allnew
Rude, raunchy and decidedly non-PC, Ted is the sort of movie for which trailers serve no purpose, since they can't convey the R-rated content in PG-approved snippets.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-29-2012 |
Reviews
Seeking a Friend for the End of the Worldnew
Seek it out.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
Snow White and the Huntsmannew
More Tolkien than Grimm.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
06-01-2012 |
Reviews
Sound of My Voice: More clarity requirednew
More often than not, it's a compliment to state that a particular film could stand to be longer, since it generally means that either the characters or the storylines are so compelling that we don't want our visit to their celluloid world to end. In the case of Sound of My Voice, though, this statement is meant as criticism rather than praise.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
05-29-2012 |
Reviews
Men in Black IIInew
Where there's Will, there's a way.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
05-29-2012 |
Reviews
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: The Avengers for the elderlynew
The Avengers for the elderly demographic, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel replaces the likes of Captain America, Iron Man and Thor with such art-house superheroes as Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Bill Nighy.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
05-29-2012 |
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The Dictator rules, then faltersnew
It was probably too much to hope that The Dictator would operate in the same fashion as Borat and Bruno, and indeed, Sacha Baron Cohen has added something to the picture that prevents it from completely succeeding: a plot.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
05-28-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator
Johnny English Reborn: Spy-Jinksnew
As before, Atkinson plays the British agent who sees himself as James Bond but instead comes across as a Limey version of Inspector Clouseau.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
10-24-2011 |
Reviews
Drive: Wheel of Fortunenew
Drive is such a sterling achievement for most of its running time — perhaps one of the year's best — that it's alarming when it crashes and burns during its final 15 minutes.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
09-19-2011 |
Reviews
One Day Not Always Worth the Timenew
The title of the film One Day refers to July 15, though in truth, it refers to over two decades worth of that date.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
08-24-2011 |
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Fright Night: A Feral Farrellnew
Not bad as far as these needless remakes go.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
08-24-2011 |
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