Shrek (2001) Download Full

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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Superman Returns (2006) Full Movie Streaming

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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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) Full Movie Streaming

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...

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Wrath of the Titans (2012) Watch Streaming

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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Iron Man (2008) Full Streaming

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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Avatar (2009) Full Streaming

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...

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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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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) Play Streaming

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...

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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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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) Full Movie Streaming

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'...

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Man of Steel (2013) Download Full

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...

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