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 (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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Kung Fu Panda (2008) Watch Streaming

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'...

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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...

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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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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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X2: X-Men United (2003) Full Movie Streaming

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...

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