People always seem to lament the sorry state of movies, but don’t let this year’s crop of Hollywood dreck and lackluster Oscar frontrunners get you down, as many excellent films this year went overlooked by audiences. From an insurance salesman gone wild to this year's Rocky, to the most touching gay love story since Brokeback Mountain, here are the films you missed in 2011 that deserve another look.
Cedar Rapids (Feb. 11)
Dir. Miguel Arteta, Starring: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche
This should have been Ed Helms’s 40-Year-Old Virgin moment. In his first lead role, The Office and Hangover scene-stealer stars as Tim Lippe, a naive insurance agent sent to a regional conference in the titular Iowa city,...
