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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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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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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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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The Beach (2000) Watch Streaming

Much of Will's dialogue consists of life lessons imparted to the boy, and they sound like a motivational seminar.. Ultimately, it seems more bland than bad.. The Beach wears its self-importance on its sleeve, but never truly earns it.. It's impossible to take this movie seriously, certainly not as seriously as it takes itself.. . Tedious and unsatisfying.. A film in which the text and subtext-an effortlessly gifted father presses his less-talented son to follow in his footsteps-are in perfect al...

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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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