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I Am Number Four (2011) Download Movie

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The Book of Eli (2010) Download Movie

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King Arthur (2004) Online Streaming

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Sky High (2005) Play Movie

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Sherlock Holmes (2009) Play Movie

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Star Trek (2009) Online Streaming

The aim here is to court a new generation of fans without alienating the true believers speaking Klingon in the box-office lines.. Did somebody just reach through the space-time continuum and pull out a white rabbit?. It is pleasant to report that though it's not perfect, the reconstituted Star Trek is successful enough for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief.. You needn't know the secret handshakes or utter the Vulcan blessing "live long and prosper" to gain admission to, and enjoy, summer's f...

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Spirited Away (2001) Watch Full Movie

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3:10 to Yuma (2007) Online Streaming

James Mangold's expert and entertaining 3:10 to Yuma demonstrates both the Western's age-old appeal, and the problems it presents to a contemporary filmmaker.. 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 through this choked-up virginity is to carry it way into camp.. Memo to director Chris Weitz and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg: Just because you make a movie about vampires doesn't mean you suck the...

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Apocalypto (2006) Online Streaming

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Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Watch Full Movie

Though dazzled by its ultra-modern wizardry and the high gloss of its production values, one can also feel the globalist double standard roiling underneath the adolescent-kid fantasy plot.. Director Len Wiseman is good on action, and Patrick Tatopoulus's dystopic production design is within hailing distance of Blade Runner, his chief influence. But essentially this is a big-screen video game.. The fun is fun while it lasts, it just doesn't last long enough.. Those who buy a ticket to Total Recal...

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The Four Feathers (2002) Full Movie Streaming

The Four Feathers has rewards, from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes.. . Ledger does a great job in the action sequences and the more tender scenes.. A rousing if retro adventure film about soldiers and honor and brotherly love.. A spectacular-looking film, but its ambivalent story and viewpoint ultimately drag it down.. What's missing, crucially, is the passion required to make this unlikely tale work.. The characters are so feckless, the co...

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Goosebumps (2015) Online Streaming

"Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" is industrial-strength, stunt-stuffed, thoroughly soulless, yet eminently watchable cinema.. Part of what makes Terminator Genisys so pitiful as an evening out is that all the actors do over and over again is tell us why they're in a particular scene and why the movie exists.. A special-effects extravaganza that skips over basics like coming up with an interesting origination myth for the creepy creatures who bring havoc to a sleepy suburb.. "Terminator Genis...

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The Walk (2015) Watch Full Movie

The Walk is a visionary high-wire act.. It's two-thirds of a great film but the slow start and unremarkable first hour hold it back. Still, for those who buy into the precept that "good things are worth waiting for," The Walk unquestionably delivers.. Then we're finally aloft, with the man on his wire, and Mr. Zemeckis and his colleagues lift their groundbound production into the realm of high art.. Zemeckis throws all of the emphasis on the walk itself, which minimizes the film's annoyances and...

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The Expendables 2 (2012) Watch Streaming

The Expendables 2 makes a franchise out of a novelty item, and the nostalgic kick is gone: It's a reminder that most of those '80s actioners were xenophobic and dumb, that many of its stars had more muscle mass than charisma.. Does exactly what it's supposed to do - no more, no less.. Pleasantly dumb fun if you watch it with the right mind-set.. It's hard not to like a movie in which Bruce Willis' toupee-less CIA agent accuses Stallone's ragtag band of mercenaries of engaging in "male pattern ba...

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Inglourious Basterds (2009) Full 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.. Scenes like the showdown in the tavern and the movie-premiere finale are as imaginative, energetic and, in their own weird, brutal way, beautiful as cinema gets.. For anyone who has been hoping to see Tarantino back at the top of his game, the must-see movie o...

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The Peanuts Movie (2015) Play Streaming

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Download Movie

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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) Play Streaming

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The Bourne Legacy (2012) Play Streaming

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Play Streaming

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Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) Full Movie Streaming

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Max (2015) Play Movie

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Skyfall (2012) Play Movie

This is the movie in which the newest Bond finally eases into the part of the bon vivant for-Queen-and-Country horndog who likes his martinis shaken and not stirred.. 'Quantum of Solace,' was a dour, dire letdown. This picture's a substantial bounce back, and easily the best Craig Bond picture. Emotional depth and all.. The movie's smartest suit is emotional intelligence: Skyfall keeps us caring, intensely, for a hero who, by any rational measure, is a vestige of a vanished era.. Mendes' approac...

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Spectre (2015) Play Movie

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2012 (2009) Play Movie

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Everest (2015) Watch Streaming

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Monsters University (2013) Download Full

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Life of Pi (2012) Watch Streaming

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Beowulf (2007) Play Streaming

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Planet of the Apes (2001) Download Full

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Play Movie

Nearly two decades after the last appearance, Indiana Jones is back, along with its diminishing returns and its aging principals and their trademark tools.. . There's nothing but entertainment value here.. It's romantic manliness at its purest, almost but not quite schmaltz, ideally calculated to please true believers and ironic snorters at once.. Crystal Skull isn't bad -- there are a few dazzling sequences, and a couple of good performances -- but the unprecedented blend of comedy and action t...

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The Emperor's New Groove (2000) Watch Full Movie

The best Warner Bros. cartoon ever created by the Walt Disney Studios.. Neither the best nor the most endearing of Disney, but it's a sassy amusement. And nicely short.. . Funky, funny and free of ersatz Broadway cheese.. The animation and conception of the film seldom approach the exalted and imaginative level of Disney's better efforts in the genre.. The first Disney animated movie since The Little Mermaid that amounts to nothing more than a throwaway.. An audience dominated by young children ...

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Sunshine (2007) Play Streaming

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Casino Royale (2006) Online Streaming

Casino Royale has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of.. Let the purists squawk: In Daniel Craig, the Bond franchise has finally found a 007 whose cruel charisma rivals that of Sean Connery.. Tolkien completists won't find any of this overkill, but for those uninitiates among us, less is more is still a dictum worth heeding.. I consider Daniel Craig to be the most effective and appealing of the six actors who have played 007,...

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Download Full

McKellen plays Gandalf and, truth be told, his performance is worth more to the success of the film than all the effects, visual and aural, combined.. The movie is a flume ride through the imagination of one of the most creative minds making movies today, and the pleasure curls your toes. Also, be ready to crave some macaroons.. If Fellowship hasn't rescued an otherwise dreadful year, it at least gives us something to look forward to -- same time, next year.. I like Anderson when he's making mov...

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Blood Diamond (2006) Watch Streaming

Like Mitty, Stiller dreams big. The problem is that audiences don't let him. He's both famous and forgotten, the best comedy director of his generation hiding in plain sight.. Both excitingly well made and dispiritingly formulaic.. For much of its first half, during which visuals replace vision, Walter Mitty stumbles down a rabbit hole of technological triumph. But then something unexpected happens: It turns into a sweetly engaging blockbuster.. This is a notably more upbeat attitude than the or...

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Trash (2014) Full Movie Streaming

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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) Play Movie

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X-Men: First Class (2011) Download Full

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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005) Online Streaming

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Barely Lethal (2015) Watch Full Movie

What X-Men offers are outrageous makeup and costumes, gaudy overproduction and that bland, dopey dialogue.. Though Hanks comes across as blandly as ever, at least his solid performance shows he's up to carrying half a movie on his own, and Zemeckis' direction is at first as busily efficient as the protagonist.. Hanks and his collaborators deserve all the praise and awards that surely will come their way.. Touching.. Cast Away amounts to little more than an unprecedented showcase for its star.. C...

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Watch Full Movie

This is one of my favorite movies of the year so far.. Craig has settled into a well-suited, grim-reaper role. Even when James flirts and trysts, his creased face suggests an unmovable weight.. After its first two terrific installments, the newest edition of "The Hunger Games" left me hungry, like a feast that's stunningly prepared but flavorless and non-nutritious.. It's fun for a while, but "Edge of Tomorrow" is what the GIs used to call a blivet -- 10 pounds of movie in a five-pound bag.. Gre...

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