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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On the Road (2012) Full Streaming

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...

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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...

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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...

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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 it’s 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 ...

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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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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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The Fall (2006) Watch Streaming

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...

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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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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...

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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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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...

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) Full Streaming

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...

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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...

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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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Night at the Museum (2006) Download Full

... 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 ...

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Ant-Man (2015) Play Movie

Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. I really like this movie. thank you. The result is a film not quite sure of itself, like it's wearing clothes a size too big.. It relishes low-class ugliness.. 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 excellent performances by the c...

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The Host (2013) Full Movie Streaming

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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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...

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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...

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