Matt Damon Archives - From | The | Balcony https://fromthebalcony.com/tag/matt-damon/ Remade, rebooted, or reimagined every 5 years. Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:42:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 64136672 Downsizing (2017) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/downsizing-2017/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=downsizing-2017 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/downsizing-2017/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:42:23 +0000 https://fromthebalcony.com/?p=4912 Movies as crushingly misguided and poorly-executed as Downsizing make me want to paraphrase Roger Ebert’s legendary review of 1994’s North. “I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it.” “I have no idea why [Alexander Payne], or anyone else, wanted to make this story into a… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/downsizing-2017/feed/ 0 4912 The Monuments Men (2014) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-monuments-men-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-monuments-men-2014 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-monuments-men-2014/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:17:06 +0000 https://fromthebalcony.com/?p=2458 “Damon, Murray, Blanchett, and Goodman are in? Well, then, our work here is done.” It seems more than likely that sentence or a variation thereof was uttered during the early stages of The Monuments Men, a dreary and largely uninteresting film about events that shouldn’t be dreary and uninteresting. A… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-monuments-men-2014/feed/ 0 2458 Contagion (2011) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/contagion-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=contagion-2011 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/contagion-2011/#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:00:55 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=1280 The return of the viral outbreak film has been a long time coming (there hasn’t been one without zombies since 1995’s cheeky Outbreak), and Contagion is a damned good one. Feeling chillingly realistic throughout, director Steven Soderbergh and an all-star cast deliver a tense, first-rate thriller that will have you… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/contagion-2011/feed/ 0 1280 The Adjustment Bureau (2011) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-adjustment-bureau-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-adjustment-bureau-2011 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-adjustment-bureau-2011/#respond Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:00:43 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=1249 The Adjustment Bureau somehow successfully combines romance, comedy, and science-fiction into an elegantly woven tale of the lengths in which we’ll go to defy Fate to be with the one we love. It may sound heavy, but the film introduces just enough ideas to keep interest and provides just few… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-adjustment-bureau-2011/feed/ 0 1249 Invictus (2009) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/invictus-2009/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=invictus-2009 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/invictus-2009/#respond Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:00:16 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=1108 Invictus is a tried-and-true sports film: inspiring and great to look at. But that’s all it is, which, considering the historical and political implications, is a letdown. Here we have a true story of how a leader used an athletic competition to help ease racial divides and unite a country,… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/invictus-2009/feed/ 0 1108 The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-bourne-ultimatum-2007/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-bourne-ultimatum-2007 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-bourne-ultimatum-2007/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:00:26 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=878 The Bourne Ultimatum feels like the final chapter in a deluxe trilogy, and hopefully the series will take the high road and let things be. The franchise, first helmed by Doug Lyman with 2002’s The Bourne Identity, has really come out of left field and proven to be one of… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-bourne-ultimatum-2007/feed/ 1 878 The Good Shepherd (2006) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-good-shepherd-2006/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-good-shepherd-2006 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-good-shepherd-2006/#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:00:18 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=604 The Good Shepherd is the kind of film that a director, in this case Robert De Niro, makes more for themselves than an audience. De Niro is endlessly fascinated with the birth and evolution of the Central Intelligence Agency, but his film is such a mind-numbing bore that it is… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-good-shepherd-2006/feed/ 0 604 The Departed (2006) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-departed-2006/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-departed-2006 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-departed-2006/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:00:19 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=580 Welcome back, Marty. After trying to score Oscars for Gangs of New York and The Aviator (both solid films, don’t get me wrong), Martin Scorsese is back to the old stomping grounds with The Departed. You know the good stuff: crooks, double-crosses, mafia, brutal violence, corrupt cops, colorful language, the… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/the-departed-2006/feed/ 1 580 Syriana (2005) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/syriana-2005/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=syriana-2005 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/syriana-2005/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:00:22 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=502 The last thing I expected Syriana to be was an endurance test. The intriguing trailers have been floating around for several months now and my anticipation was at its peak as I headed into the screening. Low and behold, writer/director Stephen Gaghan, working from the book by Robert Baer, manages… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/syriana-2005/feed/ 0 502 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/magnificent-desolation-walking-on-the-moon-3d-2005/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnificent-desolation-walking-on-the-moon-3d-2005 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/magnificent-desolation-walking-on-the-moon-3d-2005/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:00:06 +0000 http://localhost/ftb/?p=434 There are still those among us who believe that our journeys to the moon are nothing more than staged illusions. I suppose there is good reason for that, but I’ve never bought into it. There are skeptics everywhere about everything, but space travel and the concept of extraterrestrial life seem… Continue reading

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