Wreck-It Ralph (2012) Online Streaming

The Road, a tremulous heartbreaker onscreen, has successfully made the leap despite an unthinkable amount of fidelity.. This adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is intense and, yes, depressing -- and earns every minute that it rattles inside your head.. 'Wreck-It Ralph' combines a fresh idea with a true love for retro pop culture. It's hard not to love this movie.. Mortensen warms the film with his presence, creating a vivid portrait of a bereft man clinging to the ...

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Online Streaming

If we must endure yet another spring-summer cycle of comic book superheroes, this movie at least delivers the wham-bang goods (recycled though they may be).. A movie that is, in the best sense of the word, a Marvel.. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has the usual overlong running time, the half-hearted feints in the direction of human feeling and the obligatory action sequences that are big without being either exciting or particularly legible.. There's too much going on: the Marvel Univers...

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xXx (2002) Play Streaming

It's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins.. In its own punk way, XXX is as good as a good Bond movie, and that's saying something.. Essentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven.. If Dubya and Dick Cheney had made their very own post-9/11 patriotic propaganda movie for the teens they need as globalisation fodder, then this would be it.. . It doesn't take long to realize that the only thing this movie's diving for is dollars -- yours.. I don't t...

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Terminator Genisys (2015) Download Full

As lousy as the movie is, I must speak up for its makers' valiant attempt to make something old look new and also old ... and new. It's a vexing problem for a system that relies on sequels, "franchises," "tentpoles," etc.. The only one really having a good time is Schwarzenegger, who grins like a Cheshire cyborg even when nothing's funny, least of all the impending destruction of humanity.. Terminator Genisys feels like the film Cameron might have made if he continued the franchise.. Terminator:...

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) Watch Streaming

. If only director Chris Weitz had managed to tease out the real drama -- Bella's fear of aging -- instead of a tired one.. I am not ashamed to admit that I will be the first in line for Twilight part three.. 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!". New Moon offers few of the juicy, go-for-broke romantic pleasures of its predecessor, and the movie is so badly shaped that it's hard not to blame Weitz as a dir...

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The Lone Ranger (2013) Full Streaming

Terabithia has buckets of gentle sincerity. Since there aren't any dumb jokes or hip visuals, it's easy to get caught up in the simple messages: Be good to your sister, don't be a bully, use your imagination in a pinch.. Everyone involved genuinely seems to believe in the power of imagination to enliven -- and enlighten -- the darkest realities, and that's a magic this film captures beautifully.. There's enough emotional truth in Bridge to Terabithia to make it a worthy addition to big-screen ch...

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Idiocracy (2006) Download Movie

If the world is going to hell in any number of handbaskets -- as Judge so acutely demonstrates that it is -- you might as well hitch a ride in his.. Mike Judge's Idiocracy is absolutely a satire for its time. What Judge is less sure of here than in his previous, perfectly pitched live-action comedy Office Space, is how to build a complete movie around his key ideas.. Ow! My brain!. The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.. It's a low-boil affair from the Offi...

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