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Matt Brunson

Matt Brunson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Publications:
Creative Loafing
Critics' Group:
Southeastern Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
1891
Total QuickRatings:
76

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4/4 99% The Wizard of Oz (1939) " This family classic long ago left the realm of being mere entertainment to emerge as a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans." — Creative Loafing
Posted Oct 5, 2013
4/4 91% The Little Mermaid 3D (1989) " Everything is just right in this cheerful adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen tale ... In addition to reviving the animated art form, The Little Mermaid also brought melody back to the movies." — Creative Loafing
Posted Oct 5, 2013
4/4 100% The Big Parade (1925) " Masterfully directed by King Vidor, this swings easily between comedy, romance and tragedy without missing a beat, and there are numerous set-pieces of enormous power -- even today, the harrowing battle scenes would rank among the best ever put on film." — Creative Loafing
Posted Oct 5, 2013
4/4 100% The Earrings of Madame De... (Diamond Earrings) (1954) " The cyclical nature of chance and coincidence takes on epic proportions here, as Ophuls masterfully transforms what initially seems like a borderline bedroom farce into a full-blown tragedy." — Creative Loafing
Posted Sep 21, 2013
4/4 100% And Then There Were None (1945) " The best of the numerous screen versions that have made their way to movie theaters over the years." — Creative Loafing
Posted Sep 21, 2013
4/4 100% The Terminator (1984) " Still a toss-up between The Terminator and Aliens as to which James Cameron picture ranks as his best, this propulsively exciting yarn about a murderous cyborg has long staked its claim as a classic -- science fiction or otherwise -- for the ages." — Creative Loafing
Posted Feb 23, 2013
4/4 92% Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) " The film's inventiveness is on display from the get-go." — Creative Loafing
Posted Oct 4, 2012
4/4 97% La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (2012) " Back in 1952, both Orson Welles and David Lean cited the movie as one of their 10 all-time favorite films. Still, not everyone was a fan: Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's rat-faced Minister of Propaganda, declared it "Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1."" — Creative Loafing
Posted Sep 13, 2012
4/4 95% The Guns of Navarone (1961) " Beautifully paced, this 156-minute classic allows enough time for character development, plot complications (including the requisite double-cross by a member of the outfit) and several exciting set-pieces." — Creative Loafing
Posted Aug 21, 2012
4/4 100% Singin' in the Rain (1952) " It's tough to fight the consensus that this is the greatest movie musical of all time (although, to be honest, I would place it second, just a hair below Top Hat), but what's often lost in the praise is that this also qualifies as a great comedy." — Creative Loafing
Posted Aug 8, 2012
4/4 98% Jaws (1975) " Spielberg fashioned an instant classic whose success owes as much to his superb orchestration as to the substantial jolts and knockout performances by Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss." — Creative Loafing
Posted Aug 8, 2012
4/4 94% Full Metal Jacket (1987) " It still qualifies as one of Kubrick's most underrated pictures, and it's second only to Apocalypse Now as the best Vietnam War movie ever made." — Creative Loafing
Posted Aug 8, 2012
4/4 94% Deliverance (1972) " This powerful adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel finds director John Boorman establishing a sense of menace almost from the start, and the "squeal like a pig" sequence continues to haunt viewers even decades after the fact." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jul 13, 2012
4/4 98% The 39 Steps (1935) " The 39 Steps is sexy, exciting, unexpectedly moving (thanks to Peggy Ashcroft's portrayal of a lonely woman married to a brutish farmer), and wholly unpredictable, with an ending that nicely loops back to the start." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jul 13, 2012
4/4 100% The Gold Rush (1925) " No one can mix slapstick and sentimentality quite like Chaplin." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jul 13, 2012
4/4 96% Yellow Submarine (2012) " An outrageously inventive piece of eye-popping pop, it still qualifies as one of the greatest animated movies ever made. (It also landed in the number 11 spot on Creative Loafing's own list of The 20 Greatest Rock Films Ever Made.)" — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 19, 2012
4/4 93% Being John Malkovich (1999) " Playing by its own rules every step of the way, Being John Malkovich is clearly the sort of movie that needs to be made more often." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 14, 2012
4/4 92% The Sting (1973) " A great pick for repeat viewings." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 14, 2012
4/4 96% Unforgiven (1992) " The great Orson Welles once stated that Clint Eastwood was the most underrated filmmaker in America, and the sobering footnote is that he passed away in 1985, well before Eastwood began to be taken seriously as an artist by most critics and moviegoers." — Creative Loafing
Posted Apr 25, 2012
4/4 100% Anatomy of a Murder (1959) " Otto Preminger, no stranger to ruffling moral-watchdog feathers, never succumbs to the sleaziness inherent in the material, instead turning out an intelligent and tightly controlled drama that ranks as one of the all-time great courtroom procedurals." — Creative Loafing
Posted Apr 25, 2012
4/4 97% Casablanca (1943) " Rick and Ilsa. Laszlo and the letters of transit. Captain Renault and his charming corruptibility. "As Time Goes By." "Here's looking at you, kid." You know the routine. So round up the usual accolades." — Creative Loafing
Posted Apr 25, 2012
4/4 100% Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1999) " A treat for cineastes and sci-fi fans alike, with Melies borrowing from both Jules Verne and H.G. Wells." — Creative Loafing
Posted Apr 25, 2012
4/4 98% A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) " An unqualified masterpiece." — Creative Loafing
Posted Apr 25, 2012
4/4 88% Brief Encounter (1945) " Haunting in its evocative mood -- one enhanced by Robert Krasker's cinematography and Lean's meticulous, muted direction -- Brief Encounter primarily hinges on the extraordinary performance by Celia Johnson." — Creative Loafing
Posted Apr 25, 2012
4/4 100% This Happy Breed (1944) " This Happy Breed ranks with 1949's One Woman's Story and 1950's Madeleine as the most obscure title in David Lean's canon. That's a shame, because it's a wonderful motion picture." — Creative Loafing
Posted Apr 25, 2012
4/4 85% Spellbound (1945) " A commercial and critical hit in its day, this Best Picture Oscar nominee has seen its standing slip in the ensuing decades, as it's never mentioned on any list of Alfred Hitchcock's best works. That's a shame." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jan 25, 2012
4/4 100% Rebecca (1940) " The real show-stopper remains Judith Anderson's formidable turn as Mrs. Danvers." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jan 25, 2012
4/4 94% Notorious (1946) " Second only to Psycho as my favorite Hitchcock movie." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jan 25, 2012
4/4 94% To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) " One of those rare instances when a movie perfectly captures the essence of its source material without compromising it in any way." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jan 23, 2012
4/4 98% Wings of Desire (1987) " How brilliant is Wings of Desire? Understand that Peter Falk is playing himself - that is to say, he's playing actor Peter Falk, who happened to be an angel himself until he elected to become human decades earlier." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 25, 2011
4/4 89% Hair (1979) " With the possible exception of A Hard Day's Night, it gets my vote as the all-time best rock film." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 13, 2011
4/4 93% Superman (1978) " Superman still remains the best superhero movie ever made, full of humor, heart, and an iconic performance by Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 6, 2011
4/4 100% Citizen Kane (1941) " 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 passed making it required viewing for anyone who claims they like movies." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jan 20, 2011
4/4 87% Black Swan (2010) " A messy masterpiece. Like Apocalypse Now, Eraserhead and Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, it's one of those films that will force viewers to either reject it outright or allow it to burrow into the brain and remain there for days, weeks, months on end." — Creative Loafing
Posted Dec 17, 2010
4/4 88% Tootsie (1982) " Hoffman is magnificent in his dual role, though it's Bill Murray who stealthily steals scenes." — Creative Loafing
Posted Oct 12, 2010
4/4 98% Some Like It Hot (1959) " The film's final line is legendary, though I have a soft spot for Jerry's description of a sashaying Sugar: "Look at that! Look how she moves! That's just like Jell-O on springs!"" — Creative Loafing
Posted Oct 12, 2010
4/4 92% Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) " Mitchell's performance as Hedwig remains one of the best of modern times -- the character is by turns sexy, scary, outrageous, obnoxious, pitiable and vulnerable -- and it anchors a movie that landed on my list of the 10 best films of the 2000s." — Creative Loafing
Posted Sep 24, 2010
4/4 86% Inception (2010) " I suspect even repeat viewings won't be enough to nail this one down: Like 2001, it's both knotty enough and ambiguous enough to lead to conflicting opinions. Besides, our dreams are open to different interpretations, so why not some of our films as well?" — Creative Loafing
Posted Jul 17, 2010
4/4 99% Toy Story 3 (2010) " Three-peats may be rare in the sports world, but they're even harder to achieve in the cinematic realm. Yet Toy Story 3 emerges as the perfect final chapter in a trilogy that's guaranteed to live on for generations (to infinity and beyond?)." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 19, 2010
4/4 93% The Apartment (1960) " A screen gem that attained classic status in about as much time as it takes to comb one's hair." — Creative Loafing
Posted Mar 12, 2010
4/4 94% The Wolf Man (1941) " Even with a canon that includes the definitive versions of (among others) Frankenstein, Dracula and The Phantom of the Opera, this 1941 classic has always remained my favorite of the studio's prolific output." — Creative Loafing
Posted Feb 15, 2010
4/4 90% Up in the Air (2009) " A timely seriocomic work that manages to be breezy without once diminishing the sobering realities that constantly hover around the picture's edges." — Creative Loafing
Posted Dec 19, 2009
4/4 94% The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet) (1957) " As a youth, perhaps no other film opened my eyes to the wonderful possibilities of cinema as much as The Seventh Seal." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 21, 2009
4/4 98% The Wrestler (2008) " It lines up nicely with my only other four-star pictures of 2008 [Milk and The Dark Knight], collectively presenting a portrait of the uncertain, often unhappy America in which we presently reside." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jan 21, 2009
4/4 94% Milk (2008) " Full of both passion and purpose, Milk is clearly one of the year's best films." — Creative Loafing
Posted Dec 13, 2008
4/4 99% L.A. Confidential (1997) " Writer-director Curtis Hanson's adaptation of the James Ellroy novel wasn't merely one of the two or three greatest movies of the 1990s; it stands as a masterpiece for the ages." — Creative Loafing
Posted Nov 26, 2008
4/4 94% The Dark Knight (2008) " The Dark Knight might be the first superhero movie that exudes a palpable sense of dread and menace that tugs at our nerves in a way that both disturbs and delights us." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jul 18, 2008
4/4 94% No Country for Old Men (2007) " No Country for Old Men isn't the first great movie certain to have its ending criticized even by many who enjoyed the rest of the picture." — Creative Loafing
Posted Nov 22, 2007
4/4 81% A Prairie Home Companion (2006) " Altman's best film since the one-two punch of The Player and Short Cuts back in the early 1990s." — Creative Loafing
Posted Jun 7, 2006
4/4 91% United 93 (2006) " It's hard to imagine a less sensationalized 9/11 film than United 93." — Creative Loafing
Posted May 4, 2006
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