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This action-adventure sequel from Marvel soon turns so dumb and 3-D-murky that it hurts.. It's like a smorgasbord designed to give fans all they can eat -- or a roadside 24-hour buffet that clocks in, blessedly, at a mere two hours. Its welcoming air and variety can't fully disguise its lack of top-notch ingredients.. Dancing above a leaden plot and lumpy dialogue, Mr. Hiddleston moves his fine-boned features and graceful body, as if what he were doing matters; he seems imported from a quite dif...
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This J.V. "Salt" is effective only for a few minutes at a time, in some occasionally ripping action scenes set to a vivid Chemical Brothers score.. Saoirse Ronan is a talented young actress who tends to be better than the movies she's in. And that tendency holds true with "Hanna," an unsteady thriller that staggers when it should sprint.. Hanna is far from perfect but, courtesy of star Saoirse Ronan and director Joe Wright, it's one of those imperfect pictures that manages to command and hold ou...
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This is one of those rare instances when a sequel wouldn't just be warranted - it would be welcomed.. It's got all the ingredients - improbable romances, partial nudity, ridiculous escapes - that make it little more than big-sound and big-picture fodder for the Imax screens it will appear on throughout the country.. This is like an Austin Powers movie directed by Wes Anderson, although Ritchie's personal style is very much in evidence.. A lot of energy and effort has gone into this endeavor, and...
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It shouldn't surprise you by now to hear that Cruise apparently flirted with on-set danger here, too. And it's impossible to deny that this knowledge adds to the fun.. Immersive, unpredictable and crammed with more sharp plot hooks than a fishing basket. It's one of the best wide-release movies of the summer.. Of the many heists and grabs that litter the movie, none is as blatant as the deft, irrepressible manner in which Ferguson, displaying a light smile and a brisk way with a knife, steals th...
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Last time out, in Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson adapted a children's book by Roald Dahl. Now, in Moonrise Kingdom, he's made one of his own.. It's an adventure, a love story, a biblical allegory complete with approaching storm, a mash note to composer Benjamin Britten and a profoundly touching discourse on the needs of troubled children.. It's a fable about what it feels like to be 12 years old and afflicted, from head to toe, by a romantic crush the size of a planet.. One knock against some o...
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The performances -- namely from stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James and Kate Winslet in a juicy supporting role -- always make the movie watchable and often quite engaging.. Ironically for a film about non-conformity, it adheres to the playbook rather slavishly.. Although not quite as well-focused as The Hunger Games, Divergent employs many of the same elements: a futuristic post-war setting, a strong heroine, a romance, and a struggle against the oppression inherent in the status quo.. Promet...
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Don't expect new horizons in the annals of odd-couple, comedy-action flicks.. A darker, deeper fantasy epic than the Rings trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia or the Potter films. It springs from the same world of quasi-philosophical magic, but creates more complex villains and poses more intriguing questions.. . . A pretty good fantasy -- with different bits of Potter and Jules Verne and Narnia all mixed up together into something new.. . Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's decision to pursue a movie car...
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There's so much delusion and so much delight in "Noah" that I have trouble distinguishing one from the other, or determining whether its most outlandish flourishes qualify as mistakes or as strokes of genius.. Yes, it's brightly colored carnival fun. But this ride, in the end, only goes round and round and round. Which is ultimately more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho.. One of the most dazzling and unforgettable Biblical epics ever put on film.. For all the high-tech showmanship on display, this retelling...
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Relentlessly dense and unfathomable; Depp, the heart and soul of the series, doesn't even show up till several reels in.. . In terms of pure adventure, there's less of it here than in Pirates 2 -- the action doesn't really start until about two hours in, and even then it's hard to understand the shifting allegiances or make sense of why the different sides are fighting.. Not so much thought out as strung together -- colorful incident upon colorful incident, but without logic, gathering suspense ...
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Mainly for "Night at the Museum" diehards.. Thor is essentially Marvel's answer to Superman and, as with The Man of Steel, it can be difficult to craft a tale around a hero who is essentially invincible.. Dancing above a leaden plot and lumpy dialogue, Mr. Hiddleston moves his fine-boned features and graceful body, as if what he were doing matters; he seems imported from a quite different movie.. A beautiful muddle from The Matrix-making Wachowski siblings.. A movie so jaw-droppingly awful that ...
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It barely matters whether this movie is good or bad. Bay is now the sort of filmmaker -- the only one, perhaps -- whose moviemaking goes beyond such binary banality.. I sincerely enjoyed the Transformer who was literally branded by Oreo.. The Transformers are brilliant, brave, world-conquering space travelers. Time to morph into something entertaining.. In the end, though, this is still a movie about giant robots fighting each other, which is to say it's nearly impossible to take seriousl...
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World War Z opens with an undeniable bang. But if this is the way the world ends, we're going out with a whimper.. Director Marc Forster can't do much with the stale human story, in which Pitt leaves his frightened wife and daughters on an aircraft carrier to await his return.. [It] does not try to extend the boundaries of commercial entertainment but does what it can to find interesting ways to pass the time within them.. This enjoyable shambles of a sci-fi thriller, directed by Marc Forster in...
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After the first hour, with its poignant depiction of humanity's decline, Interstellar always seems to be rebuilding its momentum, offering plenty to think about but little to hold on to.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. The parts of...
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Indecision haunts every frame. The result is a clattering, hectic spectacle that by the end has run out of inspiration. It's a home for abandoned ideas.. No knockouts here. No tkos, either.. . . Its single biggest failing -- an affront to Lewis Carroll and the charms of nonsense literature -- is the fact that it makes sense.. Burton, one of the great visual artists in Hollywood history, is incapable of making an uninteresting movie. Still, I'm not looking forward to the sequel promised in the la...
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Even for those missing their Harry Potter fix, this is some weak, watered-down stuff.. Rent the original instead.. Percy is a lot like a certain bespectacled young wizard - sans the lightning-shaped scar. It's too bad his adventures don't have the same enchanting quality.. "Sea of Monsters" is diverting enough - the director, Thor Freudenthal, is savvy with effects and keeps his young cast on point - but it doesn't begin to approach the biting adolescent tension of the Harry Potter movies. Momoa...
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The conceptual sci-fi of the original series is nowhere to be found, though you might enjoy watching the skinny young actors approximate their counterparts from the 60s; Chris Pine is especially good as Captain Kirk.. For all its reckoning with mass destruction, this franchise's vision of a future Earth remains optimistic. The film mixes the iconically familiar with the futuristic.. The film is, for whatever else it might be, one of the funniest of the Star Trek entries.. Abrams boldly goes into...
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If we must endure yet another spring-summer cycle of comic book superheroes, this movie at least delivers the wham-bang goods (recycled though they may be).. A movie that is, in the best sense of the word, a Marvel.. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has the usual overlong running time, the half-hearted feints in the direction of human feeling and the obligatory action sequences that are big without being either exciting or particularly legible.. There's too much going on: the Marvel Univers...
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It's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins.. In its own punk way, XXX is as good as a good Bond movie, and that's saying something.. Essentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven.. If Dubya and Dick Cheney had made their very own post-9/11 patriotic propaganda movie for the teens they need as globalisation fodder, then this would be it.. . It doesn't take long to realize that the only thing this movie's diving for is dollars -- yours.. I don't t...
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As lousy as the movie is, I must speak up for its makers' valiant attempt to make something old look new and also old ... and new. It's a vexing problem for a system that relies on sequels, "franchises," "tentpoles," etc.. The only one really having a good time is Schwarzenegger, who grins like a Cheshire cyborg even when nothing's funny, least of all the impending destruction of humanity.. Terminator Genisys feels like the film Cameron might have made if he continued the franchise.. Terminator:...
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. If only director Chris Weitz had managed to tease out the real drama -- Bella's fear of aging -- instead of a tired one.. I am not ashamed to admit that I will be the first in line for Twilight part three.. Weitz's pacing is so limp you're going to need the electricity generated by a live audience to keep from yelling, "Hurry it up!". New Moon offers few of the juicy, go-for-broke romantic pleasures of its predecessor, and the movie is so badly shaped that it's hard not to blame Weitz as a dir...
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If the world is going to hell in any number of handbaskets -- as Judge so acutely demonstrates that it is -- you might as well hitch a ride in his.. Mike Judge's Idiocracy is absolutely a satire for its time. What Judge is less sure of here than in his previous, perfectly pitched live-action comedy Office Space, is how to build a complete movie around his key ideas.. Ow! My brain!. The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.. It's a low-boil affair from the Offi...
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It's a bracing tonic for the bored palate of the mainstream moviegoer, and one of the most intriguing big-budget breakthrough films since Steven Spielberg made "Jaws.". This is exactly what big summer movies ought to aspire to: never short on dazzle, but unafraid to let us catch our breath once it's been taken away.. Forget about three years at Rada - these boys are the real deal.. Director Joseph Kosinski has a recipe for adventure that should delight gamers. Non-techies are on their own.. Dire...
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Remaking Get Smart for the big screen might have sounded like a bad idea, but the movie shows it to have been something else: a really bad idea.. Chipper, energetic and unimaginatively plotted re-do.. As a reworking of one of the great 1960s TV comedies, you'd think being funny would be its main goal. But you would be wrong. Very, very wrong.. You cannot expect a bunch of vacationing kids to remember, let alone revere, a cheeky little TV half hour that entertained the old folks almost a half cen...
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The dialogue is weak and the science has gone from incredulous to silly.. In an era when much on film seems old, Shrek seems new and fresh and clever.. It doesn't take long to figure out that Shrek is not going to be your ordinary animated fairy tale.. Bad news is the only news in Jurassic Park III.. This is beautiful work.. One staggeringly silly movie.. What gives Shrek its special artistic distinction is its witty and knowingly sassy dialogue, delivered by vocally charismatic performers whose...
National Treasure (2004) Play Streaming
As a reworking of one of the great 1960s TV comedies, you'd think being funny would be its main goal. But you would be wrong. Very, very wrong.. Overall this is a limp parade of recycled gags and gadgets: an action movie with no surprises and a comedy with nothing like enough laughs.. So bad on so many levels.. A little more unabashed silliness might have made Get Smart a better movie. As is it's a chuckly comfort-food film that you neither love nor hate, serviceable fare for a warm summer daze....
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As Balian and his people withstand the might of Saladin's fiery projectiles, siege towers and the usual computer-generated swarm of soldiers, it's hard not to think we're really watching The Lord of the Rings IV: Legolas Defends Jerusalem.. To say that Scott did a beautiful job directing Kingdom of Heaven would be true, but it wouldn't convey the nature of the achievement.. The religious sentiment accumulates into a tower of politically correct Jell-O.. A colorful, great-looking film, with an in...
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"Guardians of the Galaxy" has wit, energy and zaniness to spare. It will pop your corn and leave you hungry for more.. As directed by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy never takes itself seriously and it's often a visual and musical treat. The Runaways' Cherry Bomb and David Bowie's Moonage Daydream? Yes, please.. Though based on a comics series launched in 1969, "Guardians" comes on with a hip, absurdist humor that feels thoroughly modern.. What sounds like a strained miscalculation turns out...
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Aside from Parsons' initially amusingly mangled Yoda-like English, which gets a tad repetitive, Home doesn't stand out as fresh or particularly funny.. A surprisingly moving tale of friendship and family, dressed up as an adorably frivolous sci-fi comedy.. Director Marc Forster can't do much with the stale human story, in which Pitt leaves his frightened wife and daughters on an aircraft carrier to await his return.. A relentless horror thriller that serves up a chilling vision of a planet in th...
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An unconventional coming-of-age story that's likely to appeal to the rebellious teen in all of us.. In its small, independent way, "The Kings of Summer" rules.. Starts out as a raunchy teen comedy, slips into nature-epic mode, then adds a romantic triangle and finally finds a comfort zone in family-sitcom land.. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side characte...
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It's darker, more complex and far more substantive than anything in the Superman or Batman cinematic series.. The X-Men comic books have spawned a cottage industry of mutant characters, and the movie helps make sense of these legions while offering the established fan base something new to cheer.. X-Men plays like a so-so middle chapter of an epic series rather than a fitting kickoff.. Exciting mainly because anything can happen and does, the movie drags a bit as it approaches a climax set on to...
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Jumper has so many loose ends that it almost cries out for a sequel. This, of course, is intentional. I would say the filmmakers are being a tad optimistic.. Like so many other CGI behemoths, this dull action fantasy ultimately squashes rather than inspires one's sense of wonder.. . So freakin' awful.. The disappointments and the inexplicable plot turns kept mounting until I finally surrendered and just admitted it: This was just a goodlooking clunker.. Is there something innately vexing about a...
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It's a work of profound ambition, and, in adapting it for the screen, the makers of The Chronicles of Narnia don't shy away from its demands.. In his daft, dizzy reinvention of a moribund franchise, Abrams has found a way to be referential without being reverential, to conjure nostalgia without being constrained by it.. What constant magic it works.. Even by the standards of its own predecessors, this Trek feels like it was made by a committee of logic-minded Vulcans (or franchise-protective stu...
Transformers (2007) Play Movie
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While there's certain promise to a comedy about a family that's almost utterly loathesome (it worked for the Addamses, didn't it?) it's necessary that the movie think so, too.. RV has laughs spilling out of its overhead bins.. Not unbearably terrible, just thoroughly mediocre.. Call it the Robert Downey Jr. Meets Sherlock Holmes Effect. A classic popular adventure gets overblown, juiced-up, and generally CGI-ified.. For the latest update of Alexandre Dumas's novel, Paul W.S. Anderson has added f...
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Where John Carter continually gets it right is pacing, levity, and breadth of story.. Whenever the fighting stops and two people have to stand and talk, all the air goes out of everything. Suddenly it feels as if we're in an empty theater, watching a dusty old sword-and-sandal epic.. Suffers from a convoluted plot and an anticlimactic resolution, but hits enough high notes along the way to be enjoyable.. It isn't bad so much as innocuous, $250-million worth of innocuous, framed by a decent start...
Dragon Blade (2015) Play Movie
It's kind of a mess. That more than 20 minutes have been trimmed for the stateside release may have hurt the film's coherence, but viewers will be thankful for the shorter sit.. Just about everyone seems to get slashed, carved up or skewered, and vengeance rains down upon all. Except, of course, the one villain who truly deserved it. The filmmaker.. In Dragon Blade, East meets West in a murky, mediocre muddle.. [Chan's] acrobatic action sequences remain eye-catching as ever. Veteran star Chan, w...
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Despite all its high-tech weirdness, is really that most perdurable of human constructions, a tale told well and true.. This is beautiful work.. In an era when much on film seems old, Shrek seems new and fresh and clever.. What gives Shrek its special artistic distinction is its witty and knowingly sassy dialogue, delivered by vocally charismatic performers whose voices remind us of their stellar screen personae in live-action movies.. What the film lacks is the faintest glimmer of charm.. The s...
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I really like this movie. thank you. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. In this seamless blending of technical brilliance and storytelling verve, the Pixar team has made something as marvelously soulful and innately, fluidly American as jazz.. A genuinely funny and touching film that, in less than a decade, has established itself as a timeless classic.. ...
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Online Streaming
This oafish epic about the End of Days -- as predicted by the Mayan calendar -- operates in a dead zone roughly equidistant between parody and idiocy.. The third outing for a herd of toys that should have stayed in their boxes.. As you might expect with director Roland Emmerich, the movie isn't a patch on the trailer.. Frequently entertaining and sometimes lovely to look at.. This is fear-mongering, sentimental, horror show shtick, but it's also fairly competent, making 2012 a work of awful effi...
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Just wacky enough and gadget-driven enough to appeal to bored kids looking for fresh energies.. Spy Kids may have its faults, but, for adults, it's far from a Mission: Unwatchable.. As drama, After Earth offers no surprises; as action, it's rarely stimulating; as a parenting manual, it seems that Will has thrown Jaden into water that's a little too deep.. A fine, relatively non-violent example of pure family entertainment.. It's just a somewhat mundane coming-of-age story with a terribly miscast...
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There is a whole lot of meanwhile in this crowded, lumbering film.. If it's sword-on-sword with arrows-in-the-air action you want, Robin Hood delivers in a big way.. We never even get to see Robin steal from the rich and give to the poor. That's because the film is a prequel in search of a sequel. With any luck, we won't get one.. The film is pretty, and there are a few solid moments every hour. But considered as a work of cinema, with paid professionals involved, it's an extremely lackluster st...
Last Knights (2015) Play Movie
This is an unrelentingly dour take on the fantasy genre, ditching the wizards, dragons and rampant nudity - aka, the fun stuff.. This thing is so garbled and goofy it plays like a parody. Except it's not.. As predictable as the wrap-up of one of D.W. Griffith's moralistic epics. What's surprising is how much Last Knights feels as if Griffith's ghost could have directed it.. By the end, the viewers of Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya's low-budget Middle-Ages riff may end up wondering what they've...
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Superman Returns should swoop away with a big chunk of the summer box office, and deservedly so.. ... while I can't call it a home run, I'll say it's a solid base hit.. Superman, born in 1938, is still very much alive in 2006. The Man of Steel has so skillfully bent the bars of our imagination that he seems real to us. And in a sense, he is.. It's clear that Superman Returns wants to lay claim to being a true successor to the first film, not a sequel so much as a full-blooded offspring. But thes...
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If anything, this series has gotten dumber and more inert as it has progressed, with this last one finally reaching over into an extended wallow in camp.. I'll probably never understand the popularity of the Twilight movies. They're haphazardly assembled adaptations of awful books.. While parting involved no sorrow, it was sweeter than expected.. As billion-dollar Hollywood franchises go, this is one of the drawn-out dumbest. The stake through the heart comes not a moment too soon.. With so many...
Turbo Kid (2015) Play Movie
Brilliant. Epic. Haunting. Grotesque. Great.. The climactic chases, shootouts, and fistfights have been staged, filmed, and edited with insobriety. Visual clarity shouldn't be too much to ask from these movies, even if they fail to achieve ideological coherence.. If you have fond, 33-year-old memories of averting your young eyes from a propulsive parasite critter, Prometheus might just be your kind of return trip.. With a couple of elaborate action set pieces and some trippy, dreamlike sequences...
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Appropriate for the wee ones, this flick promises to please parents who will inevitably be in for repeat viewings.. The latest DreamWorks Animation picture that leaves you jonesing for a little Pixar.. Whenever I watch an "Ice Age" movie, I understand how my mother felt whenever I zoned out in front of the television after school.. Lame scatalogical gags and worn pop-culture parodies abound, but the CGI animation romp is somewhat redeemed by the scene-stealing appearances of several supporting c...
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A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. I wonder how many meetings they had before they came up with that title. And didn't we just see this movie a couple of weeks ago, and wasn't it called Yours, Mine and Ours?. This feeble followup to 2010's godawful Clash of the Titans sucketh the mighty big one.. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side...
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When the movie slows down to catch its breath, there's very little of the heart and soul -- and wry wit -- that make the Riordan books so beloved.. Downey is at his charismatic best, rendering believable Stark's transformation from self-indulgent jerk to socially conscious crusader.. This is a kids' movie: Parents can either get into the silly-suspenseful spirit of it or play Rummikub on their iPhones.. There are a few scenes in Iron Man that make you realize why we rely on giant studios and big...
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) Watch Streaming
Adults have the choice of either admiring the scenery or taking a nap. There's not much else worth doing. Certainly, paying attention to the story is an exercise in futility, but you're welcome to try.... The sequel to the big family hit Night at the Museum struggles with a big creative challenge. The sense of wonderment you feel in seeing museum displays magically come to life is not as strong the second time around.. The museum sparkles, but the movie is awfully dull.. Pleasant, innocuous and ...
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) Download Movie
The movie feels like an uneasy combination of new and old western stylings.. So long as there are people, there will be love stories -- I hope they all feel as lush and lively as this one.. This Yuma is Shane with a train.. Weitz's pacing is so limp you're going to need the electricity generated by a live audience to keep from yelling, "Hurry it up!". Alone of all the earnest players in this turgidly euphemistic melodrama, Sheen seems to grasp that the only way you can keep a straight face throu...
Peter Pan (2003) Download Full
What it is lacking is any kind of wonder. True fairy dust is in decidedly short supply and without it, the movie sinks like a cannonball.. If you've seen the others, you'll want to see this one. Let's face it -- there's no turning back.. .. even though Revenge is a better experience than Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones, it doesn't add anything that satisfying or compelling to the big picture.. Both enchantingly old-fashioned and daringly modern.. The trouble is that, as the plot quickens,...
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Why is it so joyless?. The Golden Compass is a blatant attempt to duplicate the success of the Harry Potter franchise. The only thing missing is richly imagined characters, a comprehensible story line, good acting, and satisfying special effects.. The carefully crafted look, in which fabulous fantasy mingles with hand-woven sweaters, offers a visual feast. The acting is impeccable from performers to voices.. Weitz's film is short, punchy and efficient, and it's full of engaging spectacle.. Will ...
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) Play Streaming
Yakin doesn't condescend to his audience, and infuses his plot with a surprisingly ambitious and revealing commentary about the experience of war.. The movie is downright laughable when it isn't merely unpleasant.. It has the feel of a TV drama renewed for one season too many, a last, furtive run at the till before it closes for business.. Max is an absurdly violent PG-rated movie in which kids and dogs are repeatedly in peril.. Ahoy me hearties, No. 4 is surprisingly not bad.. Except for one mo...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Watch Streaming
Witherspoon uses her own undoubted discomfort with the physical demands of the role to make us feel Strayed's predicament in our bones.. Alas, there's nothing quite memorable here: much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the X-Men series has progressed, the startling poetic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pounding clumsiness.. With some dire blue-screen effects, dizzying tonal instability and a total absence of suspense or originality, 'Wo...
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Watch Streaming
A kitchen-sink fantasy, in both mood and content. It is exciting, funny, adventurous, magical and very romantic. The special effects are great, but the characters are even better.. When Gandalf arrives with reinforcements, descending a near-vertical slope using horses where you or I would use snowboards, the spirit of triumphant rampage is something rarely glimpsed since the days of Olivier and Henry V.. It won't change your life but you'll walk away smiling.. Rather than go to the trouble of cr...
The Expendables 3 (2014) Download Movie
Not as flag-wavingly cheesy as it might have been - but that doesn't make it a good film.. Those first two movies look like Seven Samurai next to The Expendables 3, a sad, bad, parade of uninspired cameos and listless violence.. It's the Walmart of feel-good family films: accessible, cheaply made, useful in a pinch and full of American flags.. Dullness, as well as hoary preachiness, neuters the family-and-their-war-dog drama "Max.". Yakin doesn't condescend to his audience, and infuses his plot ...
Pompeii (2014) Full Movie Streaming
[The film] runs a reasonable-sounding 92 minutes. Yet those 92 feel like more than enough.. No matter how much lava is afoot, there's always time to impale one more person with a sword.. You wonder if Paul W.S. Anderson is a director who might feel disrespected.. Harington transformed his body for the role, but here's the real disaster: His startlingly defined six-pack abs are the most memorable part of his character.. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water mostly nails what has always made th...
Into the Blue (2005) Online Streaming
Any potential guilty pleasure is washed away in a sea of icky sermonizing.. Not a thriller so much as an extremely violent swimsuit calendar.. Manages to create a winning Caribbean vibe that stretches into a fun popcorn flick.. I don't think there's anything wrong with an escapist adventure, but if you're rolling your eyes in disbelief at the plot and the dialogue, it makes it hard to enjoy the scenery.. Though marketed as brain-dead youth fodder, it's even worse than it looks.. Too long at 110 ...
Fool's Gold (2008) Watch Streaming
As a spectacle, The Polar Express looks remarkable. As a film, however, it's the equivalent of an elaborately wrapped Christmas present containing a nice new pair of socks.. Without a trace of real live people, you get special effects that are not special, visual talking points without personality, virtual reality that is anything but real.. It is such a prefabricated, false-feeling, scattered and awkward stab at a romantic comedy you feel embarrassed for everyone involved and sorry for anyone w...
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The movie promises to rock you, and much of the time it does.. Ever played a video game with a friend and had to sit there while he hogged it, leaving you to do nothing but watch for what seemed like hours?. Did you think a second G.I. Joe movie was a good idea?. The filmmakers appear to have handed a dozen or so G.I. Joe dolls to a 9-year-old, watched him play for 110 minutes, and then shot a scene-for-scene remake.. Strip away its 14th Century trappings and A Knight's Tale is just a Middle Age...
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Although Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" has been praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version brings into question how much of a story it really offers.. The Adventures of Tintin can be a delight to look at, even if motion capture isn't your particular cup of animation tea.. One gets the sense that directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable have their hearts in the action sequences and not in the characters, and that's a problem.. If I wanted to spend two hours watching a plu...
Into the Wild (2007) Watch Streaming
This is one of those movies I can imagine deciding is a masterpiece in a month's time. And by any measure, "Into the Wild" is a big leap forward for Penn as a director and deserves to be one of the most talked about films of the season.. Sequences are gorgeously filmed by cinematographer Eric Gautier, and they're heady with the joy of discovery -- they make you want to hit the road into the magnificent landscape we forget is out there.. It's a beautiful, big, sorrowful film that manages to celeb...
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Cameron and his legion of CGI experts and skilled craftspeople have delivered a lovely, misty, dangerous world.. Cameron has fared better than most in wedding cutting-edge special effects with ... genre storytelling, but Avatar, his supremely goofy science-fiction/action spectacular, finds him lost in a $250 million aquamarine light show.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. Whatever way you choose to look at it, Avatar's shock and awe demand to be seen. You've never expe...
WALL·E (2008) Play Movie
If there's one thing certain in this new instalment of Jurassic Park, it's that the critters are a whole lot smarter, faster and interesting than the Homo sapiens dropping in on them.. The most consistent production unit in Hollywood just hit another home run.. Put simply, WALL-E is about as charming as movies get.. The third time around is at least one time too many.. It doesn't take long to figure out that Shrek is not going to be your ordinary animated fairy tale.. This latest achievement fro...
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) Full Movie Streaming
A movie that lacks the jingoistic bravura of earlier editions ... but hasn't replaced it with meaningful historical revisionism appropriate to our post-colonial age.. It's an essentially stupid movie.. A movie bearing as faux-naive a title as this has to make a pretty good case for itself. This it decidedly does not do.. At times the whole thing is a hippie's beard whisker away from a clueless pop star on a charidee PR trip to a developing country.. A rousing if retro adventure film about soldie...
127 Hours (2010) Watch Full Movie
A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and its thrilling to behold.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds ...
Spider-Man 3 (2007) Play Streaming
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets works the kind of magic that Hollywood rarely displays: It's a sequel that's better than the original.. Big, dull and empty.. In all fairness, I must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed, fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks.. An extravagant three-ring circus of a movie from director Sam Raimi, but it's not without a struggle.. Maguire has made Peter/Spidey all his own; the supporting characters are...
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Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. This is a grittier webslinger saga, led by a Peter Parker with swagger and angst and a tone defined more by emotional resonance than wide-eyed wonder. It still has plenty of fizz.. Dumbed down, tarted up, and almost shockingly uninspired, it's the worst superhero movie since Green Lantern.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above y...
Men in Black II (2002) Play Streaming
The picture's definitely entertaining, in fits and starts. It's also joyless.. The predictable effort makes the movie seem longer than its audience-friendly 88 minutes, and the script deficiencies account for the high number of alien and human supporting players.. Instead of inhabiting the same world of his original, the delightful 1997 Men in Black, or inventing a new world, this update kitschifies it, rendering it into a silly joke.. The movie's smart, funny and fairly forgettable.. Men in Bla...
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A good-hearted, funny movie.. Feels like some lame, focus-grouped attempt by a bunch of people who have grown hopelessly middle-aged to make themselves hip with the kids.. . Pace and Untaru generate an unforced chemistry that makes them pleasant company for a couple of hours, but they almost work against the movie's need to establish narrative tension. They appear to be having such a good time that Roy's self-destructive impu. That's the trouble with candy, the eye kind or the tooth-decaying var...
Monsters, Inc. (2001) Play Movie
It may be harder nowadays to dazzle audiences with fancy visual effects, but Monsters, Inc. 3D proves that smart, imaginative storytelling still does the trick every time.. I enjoyed it.. It's agreeable and often funny, and adults who take their kids to see it might be surprised to find themselves having a pretty good time.. The good guys are those who realize that laughter is stronger than fear. That's a message worth taking to heart these jittery days.. The movie itself stands up well, even fr...
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I'd be lying if I didn't say this movie gave me as much innocent pleasure as any I've seen this year.. While the romantic sweetness that it's peddling is a guilty pleasure, it's also a distraction from the gathering storm that the series had been charting so well.. Harry is better than ever, a triumph of visual wonder and emotional storytelling.. The lag time between the final books and the movies has drained much of the urgency from this screen adaptation, which, far more than any of the previo...
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47 Ronin (2013) Online Streaming
Solemn as a funeral march, humorless as your junior high principal, as Japanese as a grocery-store California roll, Keanu Reeves's let's-mope-about-and-kill-ourselves samurai drama has exactly three things going for it.. A singular viewing experience: a multi-colored downer fantasy which combines bursts of imagination with a bleak worldview, resulting in something that rarely feels mainstream.. There's nothing pretty or exciting about this movie (inexplicably, it's in 3-D), even when all anyone'...
Bee Movie (2007) Watch Full Movie
Harmless fun for the whole family.. What I like about Bee Movie is its comfy, off-the-cuff charm: unlike a lot of animated family entertainment, it's not all Thwack Smash Kaboom.. Bee Movie is a cute movie. Not that there's anything ... well, you know the rest. But cute is not what adults expect from Jerry Seinfeld, although children will be delighted.. It's impersonal. It doesn't come from anywhere interesting.. The movie is like one of those ships in a bottle -- lovely and painstaking, as gran...
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Watch Full Movie
The A-Team is so busy trying to connect with the audience's hearts, minds and wallets that it never quite connects with itself.. The Hollywood suits figure you'll overlook a movie's faults as long as the action has juice. Isn't it great when a plan comes together?. To anyone more discerning, and certainly to those fans who cherished the way the first two movies took pains to honour what made the X-Men such special mutants, the final blowout will seem like a blown opportunity.. Of the three X-epi...
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Cavill broods handsomely as Superman, but this reboot skimps on fun and romance.. By the end, Man of Steel has mutated into just another superhero action movie, with explosions galore and city buildings toppling like so many Legos. Lather, rinse, repeat. That's too bad because ... Man of Steel has so much going for it.. For those who crave cinematic mayhem, Man of Steel is right up your alley (and it will make a ton of money).. Man of Steel packs quite a wallop. A few too many wallops, as it tur...
True Grit (2010) Online Streaming
The tense verbal comedy of Mattie's early negotiation with a Fort Smith merchant should win you over to this movie's high linguistic wit.. If there's one thing I don't need in my Christmas stocking this year, it's a sorry, lumbering and unasked-for remake of the 1969 sagebrush saga True Grit.. The movie feels uncertain as to its own tones and intentions.. It has little narrative interest and requires that the director latch onto a very specific airy tone of whimsy, lest the whole souffle collaps...
The Beach (2000) Watch Streaming
Much of Will's dialogue consists of life lessons imparted to the boy, and they sound like a motivational seminar.. Ultimately, it seems more bland than bad.. The Beach wears its self-importance on its sleeve, but never truly earns it.. It's impossible to take this movie seriously, certainly not as seriously as it takes itself.. . Tedious and unsatisfying.. A film in which the text and subtext-an effortlessly gifted father presses his less-talented son to follow in his footsteps-are in perfect al...
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Azaria pretty much steals the show.. . A crackling good adventure, a visually sumptuous effort.. Adults have the choice of either admiring the scenery or taking a nap. There's not much else worth doing. Certainly, paying attention to the story is an exercise in futility, but you're welcome to try.... The characters and story are mere narrative lubricant to get us from one digitally goosed sensory assault to the next.. . This blandly conceived and executed attempt at a juve-style Indiana Jones wi...
Alexander (2004) Online Streaming
A lunk-headed train wreck that looks like a tag sale in a 323 B.C. supermarket in old Peking.. Farrell plays all this as if he means it, but he seems slight in the role and without great physical presence.. At a reported cost of $155 million, Alexander qualifies as a super-spectacle in every respect but one -- namely in its neurotic, confused and sexually ambidextrous hero.. This is Stone's weakest movie of the past 20 years, and it's unlikely to make any kind of blip.. It's just a wild, gloriou...
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015) Full Movie Streaming
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Predators (2010) Watch Full Movie
. The Kings of Summer is the cinematic equivalent of an Arctic-cold popsicle on a Sahara-hot day. Refreshing and satisfying but not overly sentimental, the film taps into the frustrations of adolescence with warmth and wit.. Vogt-Roberts makes the scenery look great, but doesn't call the plays that could make the movie score. Scenes don't develop, characters don't evolve except in indie-movie-cute ways.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordina...
Green Lantern (2011) Play Streaming
Comic-Con geeks and cinephiles alike will gape at the resplendent imagery (but don ye specs, and see it in 3-D).. Even by the standards of the current run of mediocre comic-book movies, this one stands out for its egregious shoddiness.. Heads roll, arteries gush and spleens spill across the IMAX screen in Beowulf, just as you'd expect in a screen adaptation of the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language.. He's an ambiguously...heroic hero.. The superhero genre is the home-court of the...
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) Online Streaming
Downey may think this interpretation is an insight, or funny, but it pushes what was already a rude rewriting of the classic characters into eye-rolling camp. And it throws everything off balance.. Despite its brainy title, "Monsters University" only earns a passing grade on its looks.. What hasn't advanced is the plotting, which was nothing special last time and is so formulaic now that it's basically surprise-free.. The chemistry between Watson and Holmes is spotty, and their banter grows tedi...
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... an aimless and riotous mess.. . Fun for the whole family? Probably not, but certainly for those members who are only permitted to hang out when the lawyers say it's okay.. Really young kids may like the noise and chaos of the movie, but the real museum on Central Park West has its own 'A Night at the Museum' program that sounds a lot better.. What a dull, nice movie, wrenched from a wild premise and battered into docility.. One longs for more scenes featuring Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates ...
Ant-Man (2015) Play Movie
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) Play Movie
The whole Harry Potter thing may not be as fresh for moviegoers as it was last year, but thankfully Chamber of Secrets is well-crafted.. Two down, presumably five to go, and already the franchise is entering dangerous territory: if you aren't one of the many who know their Harry Potter chapter and verse, prepare for a nap.. It's beautiful to look at. The talking cars feel more alive than talking cars should.. Along came the interstate, apparently, and ruined everything. Just like that darned Int...
Hercules (2014) Play Streaming
Give "Hercules" this much: It knows what it is.. "Hercules" heaves and grunts along, interrupted by battle scenes that are visually impressive (when's the last time you saw someone pick up a horse and throw it?) but emotionally uninvolving.. The Chronicles of Narnia is not a bad fantasy film. It's just not a great one.. Ratner's sense of humor is never clever, or light, and I've hated my share of his earlier films, but not this one.. The story is fairly straightforward, and, more importantly, so...
The Island (2005) Play Streaming
Bay's action is flashy enough to compensate for some of the shortcomings of the script.. As usual, Bay stages the action at a breakneck pace that's never frenetic enough to obscure his film's plot holes and logical lapses.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. Increasingly hard to follow, with too many dull patches along the way.. Since Michael Bay never knows when enough is enough, every chase is restaged over and again and the narrative matrix is as simplistic as it is r...
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The Host isn't very good as a romance. There's not very much passion on screen, which makes the film a poor cousin to Twilight.. Get Smart is likable and very funny -- at least a two-to-one ratio of excellent gags to clunkers -- but it's not, for better or worse, Get Smart.. Instead of the show's wacky, slapstick tone, Get Smart presents itself as an action-filled spy movie that just happens to be really funny. And for the most part, it succeeds.. Ronan is better than the material she's given as...
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A master [course] in cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment.. Very much a Hollywood production -- formulaic, made for marketing and never quite as inspired as it could have been.. The movie has lean, to-the-point simplicity, which is refreshing in an era when so many films take needlessly bloated, talky routes into their story (for more on this, see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).. The message -- believe in yourself even when all evidence suggests you shouldn'...
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Full Movie Streaming
For the most part, this epic adventure steers a true course through storm and sacrifice, and arrives triumphant.. A plain old good movie.. It never achieves the visual elegance or majesty that a David Lean might have provided. The story line isn't the freshest. And yet the film is satisfying all the same.. The film contains brilliantly crafted scenes and shots that are as compelling as anything seen onscreen this year, but there are also dull stretches in which the movie seems lightweight -- nev...
The Croods (2013) Download Movie
It may not be an instant animated classic, but it's a charmer that will leave the kids ... feeling warm and fuzzy .... While their situation sounds dire, "The Croods" is not. The DreamWorks animated film has enough slapstick humor, furry sidekicks and zippy 3-D action sequences to keep the story light.. Had the movie figured out a way to stay the less-cliched course, it might have helped the DreamWorks oeuvre take steps toward Pixar's emotional resonance.. This movie not only has its heart in th...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) Play Movie
It's a pleasant irony that, just as the first installments of Rowling's oeuvre were better suited to page than screen, the final installments have reversed the relationship.. It all gets exhaustingly bombastic although, sequence by sequence, Man of Steel is something worth seeing.. The plot is about a fearful society whose expansion of its security apparatus has unintended consequences, but Singer doesn't even touch the story's topical resonances... There's also no real moral quandary to be grap...
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I have seen the future of 3-D moviemaking, and it belongs to Martin Scorsese, unlikely as that may sound.. Moves with the lightning speed, raw power and athletic grace of, well, a genetically mutated superhero.. If ever the movie gods were to smile on an adaptation, it would be Scorsese's take on Selznick's bestselling book, a valentine to the cinematic artists whose work the filmmaker has toiled so tirelessly to champion and preserve.. It's a fairy tale for mature viewers, but the airy exterior...
Into the Woods (2014) Play Streaming
Marshall's film captures enough of the emotions that course through this sneaky fairy tale about childish things like love, sex, grief, insecurity, abandonment, and forbearance.. A capable cast and some very fine songs, but parents should take note of the dark themes. This Disney movie ain't kid stuff.. The Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine 1987 musical Into the Woods has been transferred to the screen by director Rob Marshall with most of its complexities and light-dark tonalities intact.. With the...
Mission to Mars (2000) Watch Streaming
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Batman Begins (2005) Online Streaming
I don't know if I've ever seen a revenge fantasy so willfully messed up, sometimes offensively so, that still manages to be worthwhile for whole sections of its 2 1/2 hours. The opening is as good a sequence as Tarantino has ever created.. Landa is such a wily and despicable concoction that, in movie terms, he's almost impossible not to like. And therein lies part of my problem with this movie.. Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might...
Tomorrowland (2015) Online Streaming
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) Download Movie
Kung Fu Panda gets across important and inevitable plot information in ways that are novel and unexpected. Things simply don't happen the way they usually happen in animated stories.. As the credits roll, the film's many flaws come sharply into focus. But while it lasts, Kung-Fu Panda is something of a guilty treat.. For those of us who are not Twilight fanatics, or even fans, or could not care somewhat less than less, the arrival of Part 1 is not cause for trumpets blaring. But I would imagine ...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Watch Streaming
In most respects it's a solid effort that maintains the integrity of this rather earnest series.. Looks and feels like a very cheesy Cold War-era B movie.... It delivers all the thrills, suspense and amazement fans could demand of a comic book story, leaping from scene to scene with superheroic agility.. Part 1, like its predecessors, has been made with great care, craft and attention to detail. It is also darker and more foreboding.. By any measure, Deathly Hallows is a ripping thriller.. Radcl...
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Home (2015) Play Movie
[A] lousy, ugly-looking, intensely illogical movie.. The combination of Home's layered message, fun score, and clever comedy make it a colorful choice for moviegoers of any age.. The film moves quickly and keeps the jokes coming, which only means that "Home" would rather keep young viewers occupied than give them something to think about.. A charming concoction with positive messages for younger children about conquering fears, understanding outsiders and knowing yourself.. It works moderately w...
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) Full Movie Streaming
2012 is so long, and its special effects are at once so outrageous and so thunderously predictable, that by the time I lurched from the theatre I felt that three years had actually passed and that the apocalypse was due any second.. Shot by shot, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, like all of Bay's work, has a meticulous commercial sheen that's distinctive and beautiful, but he never lingers on any one of them for long, and they rarely make sense in sequence.. Only a movie critic without a sense of...
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Hugo (2011) Play Movie
For all the wizardry on display, Hugo often feels like a film about magic instead of a magical film.... A state-of-the-art affair, an epic adaptation of Selznick's pretty-epic-itself tome, full of dazzling visuals and rapturous tributes to Melies and the magic of movies.. Hugo is a mixed bag but one well worth rummaging through.. Hugo is pure movie magic.. One of the most magical viewing experiences of the decade so far.. Movie magic hangs in the air of Martin Scorsese's Hugo, much like the stea...
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Instead of the fresh comic concept of the 1996 blockbuster, we have a calculated piece of product: a lightweight, occasionally laboured copycat skewed to a younger children's demographic to move the action figures and video sales.. RV is a horrible movie about horrible people, and just because they call it a comedy doesn't mean we have to play along.. It's about as funny as an explosion in a septic tank.. The first film was laugh-till- you-can't- remember-what- you're-laughing -at funny, while M...
Thor (2011) Watch Streaming
In "Winter Soldier," amidst the chaos, our hero learns to be wary of the modern world. Welcome to the 21st century, Cap.. It's adequately visionary, it's routinely spectacular, it breathes fire and yet somehow feels room-temperature.. This is eminently missable, though the mosaic design of Asgard, Thor's mythical realm, is pretty cool.. The magic, fleeting to start with, is mostly gone.. While more than enough praise has been poured on Jackson and his singular gift for CG spectacle, Martin Freem...
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A popcorn popper, a cinematic sugar buzz. And blessedly so.. A garish mediocrity.. The comic book adventure is a fun, escapist change of pace from all the politically weighted popcorn fare on the scene this season.. Marvel Comics continues to empty out its stable of superheroes with this entertaining tale.. The kind of don't-ask- too-many-questions action-hero movie where the humor is tasty and the FX are wicked-cool.. Even if you can get past the acting -- and in the case of the beautiful, blan...
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Works wonderfully as a popcorn picture.. Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic.. Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this.. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen just plain reeks.. This is awfulness of an utterly assembly-line nature.. In a summer of big-budget sequels, prequels, remakes and homages, no film is more ambitiously derivative -- or dramatically unsatisfying -- than Stephen Norrington's The ...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) Watch Streaming
The longer the movie goes, the more its 133 minutes prove wearing.. Performances are solid throughout, with the actors managing to straight-face their way through some truly inane dialogue.. It plays like a salvage job, with all the attendant compromises. Though the film is laden with backstory and exposition, not much actually happens onscreen.. Scorsese's film is a richly illustrated lesson in cinema history and the best argument for 3-D since James Cameron's Avatar.. When it's all done we're ...
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Play Movie
A surprise package of fun, fright and untamed imagination.. The parade of creatures Del Toro and his team have come up with as this scenario unfolds, starting with a tour of the legendary Troll Market that one-ups the Mos Eisley cantina scene in Star Wars, will make you want to tip your hat in wonder.. Bruce Willis plays the CEO of a futuristic resort where perfectly human-looking androids exist to fulfill their clients' deepest, darkest desires - none of which, it can safely be said, involve wa...
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With such an unfocused, impenetrable center, the film grows dull.. A strange delight awash in visual splendor, understated humor and clever body-and-soul transmogrifications among its bonny band of weirdos.. There is giggling, belly-laughing, and gasping to be done watching Howl's Moving Castle.. The procession of enchanting and spectacular images is intoxicating.. What a moveable feast of delights.. So richly detailed and colorful that one almost aches from the beauty.. Absolutely one of the gr...
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As a FedEx troubleshooter who survives a plane crash, Hanks performs a bravura solo spin.. The scenes of Hanks' complete isolation on the island, where barely a sound is heard for minutes at a time, are the best thing about Cast Away.. All these characters with their odd powers are inherently absurd and they throw a barrel of wrenches into the machinery of a coherent narrative.. . It sucks that this choppily edited film appears rushed and incoherent in ways that cheat the story of its human reso...
Hell & Back (2015) Download Full
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) Watch Streaming
G.I. Joe is a loud but proficient slab of explode-o-rama summer blockbuster nonsense, perfectly entertaining if you like that sort of thing, extremely skippable if you don't.. By the time the picture rattled to its confusing and badly conceived ending, I couldn't help wishing it had somehow added up to more.. We're also (relievedly) a long way away here from the strenuous self-importance of the Bruckheimer-era blockbuster, and one should never look even such modest gift horses in the mouth.. [Di...
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Its cast aside, "Last Knights" proves as square and blandly manly as an old "Prince Valiant" comic strip.. Half a millennium after Neil Armstrong's one small step for mankind and we're back in the saddle again.. A boisterous, semi-comic action thriller.. The best summer thrill ride since Batman Begins, Serenity roars in a late but mighty welcome considering this year's sub-fun slate.. Joss Whedon makes a rousing feature-directing debut, exploiting the cult status of his short-lived series Firefl...
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Jedi may not be George Lucas's crown jewel, but his trilogy as a whole is as good as film fantasy gets.. A double-barrelled shotgun enema straight to the senses, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road is an exercise in relentless, pedal-to-the-metal momentum that can only qualify as savagely pleasurable.. Jedi is downright repetitive!. Mad Max: Fury Road provokes the same question from its audience again and again: What can you show me next? The answer is always the same: Something even more outland...
Sex Drive (2008) Watch Full Movie
Once you strip Sex Drive of its naughty bits, all the sex, swearing and loud, loud music, the film is as dull and safe as a 1960 high-school guidance counsellor's pamphlet on dating.. The movie's a working definition of "safe sex.". Sean Anders' derivative gross-out movie Sex Drive is easier to take if you accept that the answer to every baffling plot question is "because it's a teen sex comedy.". The title Sex Drive is a pun about a road trip in search of nooky, but it's also an apt image of wh...
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A Knight's Tale (2001) Play Streaming
You might find yourself smiling and laughing all the way through it.. A Knight's Tale should be ridiculous, and it is: ridiculously entertaining.. It will rock you -- straight to sleep.. May please aficionados of oldies stations and Xtreme sports but few others.. Predictable and repetitive.. . Strip away its 14th Century trappings and A Knight's Tale is just a Middle Ages Rocky that spares no cliche in its unduly long, 2 1/4 hours.. Instead of pulling young audiences imaginatively back into the ...
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"Big Game" never once feels credible, and that's why it's so entertaining. Almost nothing that takes place in this movie could occur in the real world, and there's something comforting about that.. . Stone and his team of screenwriters paint an incomplete picture of the man and those he led.. Gleefully dumb but eager to entertain, this is cheeseball stuff baked with deliciously outsized performances and low comedy and photographed across mighty beautiful landscapes.. As a throwback, Big Game und...
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Downey still has plenty of moments of charm (nobody kicks a car aside as casually as this guy), and most of the action sequences are lively and fun.. A visual triumph.. Superhero Stark remains intriguing.. Most of the charm of "Monsters Inc." comes from its vocal cast.. The action sequences are fun, though not as exhilarating as in the 2008 original, and the dialogue can be zingy.. Supple and technologically sophisticated entertainment.. Though a bit indulgent of its star power at times, Monster...
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The Green Inferno (2013) Full Movie Streaming
There's enough horror remixed here -- of the Heart of Darkness version -- to engage our current moment. That should be one of the obligations of a reboot.. Let's not pretend we're watching art!. Mark Hamill is particularly good in this film.. Jedi couldn't end the Star Wars trilogy on a happier note.. There's no great meaning here - it's a basic story of rebellion and redemption. But there's such energy and visual invention in a world so fully realized and dazzling that the roller coaster ride i...
Lilo & Stitch (2002) Online Streaming
[A] crushing disappointment.. Regrettably, towards the end the film veers off into a mess of weird aliens and Cartoon Network silliness.. A tiresome feature that could be made into a wonderful 20-minute film.. It's a bright, engaging bauble with half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad, and just enough sass -- Stitch sticks his tongue into his nose and eats his snot -- to keep the tweeners giggling.. Smart, poignant, and utterly beguiling.. A new variation on the Disney animated flick, o...
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It's not a difficult picture to watch. All you want from A Walk in the Woods, honestly, is a chance to enjoy a couple of veteran actors. But the book's comic tone hasn't found a comfortable equivalent for the screen.. This is the most technically amazing motion picture to have arrived on screens in many years.. Nolte has three Oscar acting nominations to his credit, Redford has one; In A Walk in the Woods they show what true cinematic chemistry is all about without appearing to be acting at all....
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This transcendent fable carries a real sting in its tail. Ang Lee has made a bold and wondrous movie, one of his best.. The most philosophical film in Kubrick's canon, the most intelligent in Spielberg's, and quite possibly the film with the most contemporary relevance that either one has made since Kubrick released Dr. Strangelove in 1964.. Everything looks beautiful in Life of Pi.. Claudio Miranda's luminous camera, set to Mychael Danna's intoxicating score, captures all manner of wild delight...
Mission: Impossible III (2006) Play Streaming
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