Wild (2014) Watch Streaming

A moving (literally and figuratively) experience, a road movie where the road is a trail that sometimes disappears into the trees, or takes a turn onto a jagged precipice.. Subliminal editing, seamless flashbacks and evocative musical cues make for a captivating trek that dances off the linear path, even as it marches doggedly ahead.. It's a movie in which you can feel the spirit of the material infusing the filmmaker both as an artist and as a human being, and what results is that thing that oc...

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Play Movie

The film is never more than an amalgamation of other movies.. "Hanna" is, on a certain level, ridiculous. But the way Mr. Wright conjures his images and parcels out his narrative is hypnotic and so seductive that wherever the film is heading we want to follow.. Without whatever strident critique Kassovitz intends, it's a typical B action movie -- the inevitable pseudo-warm bonding scenes deadly, the fights largely incoherent -- with the occasional pleasing set-piece.. Skip it aggressively.. Baby...

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The Polar Express (2004) Online Streaming

Barrels across the trackless landscape of our affections, arriving where no one would have thought to look for a big-budget Hollywood movie: in the terrain of the heart.. A failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong.. Strap yourself in and try not to vomit, because this is more of a theme-park event than a movie -- Pirates of the Caribbean in reverse, a wild ride stripped of its story, down to a rattling series of obvious, underwhelming effects.. An enchanting, beautiful and b...

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TRON: Legacy (2010) Online Streaming

Disney may be looking for a merchandising bonanza with this long-gestating sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film, but someone in the corporate offices forgot to add any human interest to its action-heavy script.. Tron: Legacy shows off a world where everything is eye candy, and absolutely nothing is brain candy.. An intensive, propulsive political thriller representing a tautly executed return to form for director Stephen Daldry.. The only way to see "Tron: Legacy" is in IMAX 3-D, so the full v...

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) Play Streaming

I thought it was mischievous and witty and amusing and I was just sort of drawn into it.. Has all the CGI sorcery of a Harry Potter pic, but none of the magic.. Likable as Percy may be, it's not lightning he's stolen.. Percy Jackson, you are no Harry Potter. You are not fit to walk in a hobbit's wake.. This is generic filmmaking at its most banal, a simple-minded simplification of a not overwhelmingly complex book.. When the movie slows down to catch its breath, there's very little of the heart ...

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Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) Full Streaming

The result is a quirky film that should work for all ages, with just a hint of dark humor. In this age of high-tech animation, Wes Anderson has found himself in a low-tech wonderland.. Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.. A refreshingly low-tech cartoon.. The film earns its title's superlative and a hundred more.. Grownups will enjoy every delicious irony and twisted sight gag that floats over kids' heads. If the brats don't...

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Die Another Day (2002) Play Streaming

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's doing is fighting.. 'Die Another Day's' special effects will make your eyes open so wide your contacts might fall out, but the spy caper is double-crossed by a stupid script littered with one-liners so dumb that 007 act...

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) Watch Full Movie

As a movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has no inner life -- no pulse -- of its own: It's secondhand.. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, director Tim Burton does his best work in years.. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is, despite its trickery, that plainest and least surprising of artifacts: the work of art that is exactly the sum of its parts, neither more nor less.. Thank you for giving information about the film. this a good movie to be watched for sure.. I doubt that mos...

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The Lego Movie (2014) Play Streaming

Not since June Carter Cash in Walk the Line has Witherspoon been so present to a character. Her Cheryl is funny and messy, wounded but not without survival instincts.. Maybe the lack of answers is the point. How do you save your life by hiking 1,000 miles? By putting one foot in front of the other.. The movie gets much of the book and has the added benefit of scenery - lots of it, deserts and mountains and forests spreading out to the far horizons.. The brightly-imagined Lego Movie is a wickedly...

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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) Full Movie Streaming

While less fluid and fresh than its 2004 predecessor, the new film displays enough nutty writing and sheer brio to confirm the stamina of its enduring and skillfully voiced characters.. A goofy gag-filled surf-and-turf romp that will entertain adults with its ridiculous lunacy as it delights kids with colourful fun.. The story is just a pretext for sustained, rapid-fire gags, many of them hysterical, that range from movie parodies to Gary Larson-worthy flights of cartoon weirdness.. "The SpongeB...

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Holes (2003) Download Movie

The basics of the story remain unchanged, but it's the wanna-be-blockbuster additions that rankle, be it the incoherent direction of first-time feature director Carl Rinsch or the copious CGI beasties who look like rejected Lord of the Rings villains.. 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.. The latest and least of th...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Play Streaming

It ought to sink from the weight of the cargo, but it's buoyed by another high-wire performance from Depp.. Although there are memorable bits and pieces, the new Pirates of the Caribbean is a movie with no particular interest in coherence, economy or feeling.. It's too long, unnecessarily complicated and often silly, but Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is still the purest popcorn entertainment of the summer.. The new plot has all the appeal of a seaweed sandwich, bein...

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The Descent (2005) Online Streaming

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen feels overly busy, unwieldy and hollow.. Ill-conceived, sloppily directed, shoddily acted, LXG looks like the work of a confederacy of dunces.. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen just plain reeks.. This intermittently effective UK horror thriller carefully establishes the psychological relationships among the women, then squanders this calibrated and generally plausible setup with a series of crude, implausible, and scattershot horror effects.. Working on...

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) Online Streaming

The animation is first-rate, with moments of genuine visual imagination, and the story, while unremarkable, is entirely adequate.. The 3-D effects are standard, the children and the prince are a bit bland, and Michael Apted's direction veers into listlessness, but there is, at times, a pleasing elegance to the production, too. It doesn't assault you.. A film which, if not truly sophisticated, isn't nearly as crude as advertised.. This picture... mostly plays like a perfunctory cross between wate...

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Full Movie Streaming

George Lucas had lost his way for many years, gone to filmmaking's dark side. But now he's mustered up completely unexpected reserve for a last-minute redemption.. Revenge of the Sith might be tolerable if it weren't designed to be taken seriously.. But for all the clanking armies of iron knights on display to dazzle the eager kid in each of us, this summer epic rings hollow. There's no one home inside the suit.. Lucas is a brilliant technician but a poor philosopher, and his lurchingly thought-...

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Thor: The Dark World (2013) Download Movie

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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Hanna (2011) Watch Full Movie

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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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) Download Movie

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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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Download Full

It's a magical feat, one that turns puppets into personalities and an English meadow into Anderson's world.. Sometimes too clever by half, the film, replete with in-jokes, may in some ways work better for adults. Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and Jason Schwarztman also provide adept voice work.. The result is not only marvellous whimsy, but also something that advances the burgeoning retro-tech movement.. A boisterous and magnificent treat.. The film earns its title's superlative and a hundred more...

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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) Play Movie

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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