Wild (2014) Watch Streaming

A moving (literally and figuratively) experience, a road movie where the road is a trail that sometimes disappears into the trees, or takes a turn onto a jagged precipice.. Subliminal editing, seamless flashbacks and evocative musical cues make for a captivating trek that dances off the linear path, even as it marches doggedly ahead.. It's a movie in which you can feel the spirit of the material infusing...

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Play Movie

The film is never more than an amalgamation of other movies.. "Hanna" is, on a certain level, ridiculous. But the way Mr. Wright conjures his images and parcels out his narrative is hypnotic and so seductive that wherever the film is heading we want to follow.. Without whatever strident critique Kassovitz intends, it's a typical B action movie -- the inevitable pseudo-warm bonding scenes deadly, the...

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The Polar Express (2004) Online Streaming

Barrels across the trackless landscape of our affections, arriving where no one would have thought to look for a big-budget Hollywood movie: in the terrain of the heart.. A failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong.. Strap yourself in and try not to vomit, because this is more of a theme-park event than a movie -- Pirates of the Caribbean in reverse, a wild ride stripped of its...

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TRON: Legacy (2010) Online Streaming

Disney may be looking for a merchandising bonanza with this long-gestating sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film, but someone in the corporate offices forgot to add any human interest to its action-heavy script.. Tron: Legacy shows off a world where everything is eye candy, and absolutely nothing is brain candy.. An intensive, propulsive political thriller representing a tautly executed return to...

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) Play Streaming

I thought it was mischievous and witty and amusing and I was just sort of drawn into it.. Has all the CGI sorcery of a Harry Potter pic, but none of the magic.. Likable as Percy may be, it's not lightning he's stolen.. Percy Jackson, you are no Harry Potter. You are not fit to walk in a hobbit's wake.. This is generic filmmaking at its most banal, a simple-minded simplification of a not overwhelmingly...

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Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) Full Streaming

The result is a quirky film that should work for all ages, with just a hint of dark humor. In this age of high-tech animation, Wes Anderson has found himself in a low-tech wonderland.. Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre.. A refreshingly low-tech cartoon.. The film earns its title's superlative and a hundred more.. Grownups will...

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Die Another Day (2002) Play Streaming

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's doing is fighting.. 'Die Another Day's' special effects will make your eyes open so wide your contacts might fall out,...

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) Watch Full Movie

As a movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has no inner life -- no pulse -- of its own: It's secondhand.. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, director Tim Burton does his best work in years.. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is, despite its trickery, that plainest and least surprising of artifacts: the work of art that is exactly the sum of its parts, neither more nor less.. Thank you...

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The Lego Movie (2014) Play Streaming

Not since June Carter Cash in Walk the Line has Witherspoon been so present to a character. Her Cheryl is funny and messy, wounded but not without survival instincts.. Maybe the lack of answers is the point. How do you save your life by hiking 1,000 miles? By putting one foot in front of the other.. The movie gets much of the book and has the added benefit of scenery - lots of it, deserts and mountains...

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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) Full Movie Streaming

While less fluid and fresh than its 2004 predecessor, the new film displays enough nutty writing and sheer brio to confirm the stamina of its enduring and skillfully voiced characters.. A goofy gag-filled surf-and-turf romp that will entertain adults with its ridiculous lunacy as it delights kids with colourful fun.. The story is just a pretext for sustained, rapid-fire gags, many of them hysterical,...

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Holes (2003) Download Movie

The basics of the story remain unchanged, but it's the wanna-be-blockbuster additions that rankle, be it the incoherent direction of first-time feature director Carl Rinsch or the copious CGI beasties who look like rejected Lord of the Rings villains.. 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...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Play Streaming

It ought to sink from the weight of the cargo, but it's buoyed by another high-wire performance from Depp.. Although there are memorable bits and pieces, the new Pirates of the Caribbean is a movie with no particular interest in coherence, economy or feeling.. It's too long, unnecessarily complicated and often silly, but Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is still the purest...

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The Descent (2005) Online Streaming

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen feels overly busy, unwieldy and hollow.. Ill-conceived, sloppily directed, shoddily acted, LXG looks like the work of a confederacy of dunces.. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen just plain reeks.. This intermittently effective UK horror thriller carefully establishes the psychological relationships among the women, then squanders this calibrated and generally...

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) Online Streaming

The animation is first-rate, with moments of genuine visual imagination, and the story, while unremarkable, is entirely adequate.. The 3-D effects are standard, the children and the prince are a bit bland, and Michael Apted's direction veers into listlessness, but there is, at times, a pleasing elegance to the production, too. It doesn't assault you.. A film which, if not truly sophisticated, isn't...

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Full Movie Streaming

George Lucas had lost his way for many years, gone to filmmaking's dark side. But now he's mustered up completely unexpected reserve for a last-minute redemption.. Revenge of the Sith might be tolerable if it weren't designed to be taken seriously.. But for all the clanking armies of iron knights on display to dazzle the eager kid in each of us, this summer epic rings hollow. There's no one home inside...

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Thor: The Dark World (2013) Download Movie

This action-adventure sequel from Marvel soon turns so dumb and 3-D-murky that it hurts.. It's like a smorgasbord designed to give fans all they can eat -- or a roadside 24-hour buffet that clocks in, blessedly, at a mere two hours. Its welcoming air and variety can't fully disguise its lack of top-notch ingredients.. Dancing above a leaden plot and lumpy dialogue, Mr. Hiddleston moves his fine-boned...

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Hanna (2011) Watch Full Movie

This J.V. "Salt" is effective only for a few minutes at a time, in some occasionally ripping action scenes set to a vivid Chemical Brothers score.. Saoirse Ronan is a talented young actress who tends to be better than the movies she's in. And that tendency holds true with "Hanna," an unsteady thriller that staggers when it should sprint.. Hanna is far from perfect but, courtesy of star Saoirse Ronan...

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) Download Movie

This is one of those rare instances when a sequel wouldn't just be warranted - it would be welcomed.. It's got all the ingredients - improbable romances, partial nudity, ridiculous escapes - that make it little more than big-sound and big-picture fodder for the Imax screens it will appear on throughout the country.. This is like an Austin Powers movie directed by Wes Anderson, although Ritchie's personal...

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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Download Full

It's a magical feat, one that turns puppets into personalities and an English meadow into Anderson's world.. Sometimes too clever by half, the film, replete with in-jokes, may in some ways work better for adults. Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, and Jason Schwarztman also provide adept voice work.. The result is not only marvellous whimsy, but also something that advances the burgeoning retro-tech movement.....

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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) Play Movie

It shouldn't surprise you by now to hear that Cruise apparently flirted with on-set danger here, too. And it's impossible to deny that this knowledge adds to the fun.. Immersive, unpredictable and crammed with more sharp plot hooks than a fishing basket. It's one of the best wide-release movies of the summer.. Of the many heists and grabs that litter the movie, none is as blatant as the deft, irrepressible...

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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Download Movie

Last time out, in Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson adapted a children's book by Roald Dahl. Now, in Moonrise Kingdom, he's made one of his own.. It's an adventure, a love story, a biblical allegory complete with approaching storm, a mash note to composer Benjamin Britten and a profoundly touching discourse on the needs of troubled children.. It's a fable about what it feels like to be 12 years old...

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The Wolverine (2013) Online Streaming

Like most superhero films, "The Wolverine" depends mostly on sheer mechanics -- both in front of and behind the camera -- and on that level it's a resounding success.. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water mostly nails what has always made the character, and his brightly coloured underwater world, so endearing: the abundant innocence, the welcome lack of cynicism and the out-and-out stupidity.....

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Divergent (2014) Online Streaming

The performances -- namely from stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James and Kate Winslet in a juicy supporting role -- always make the movie watchable and often quite engaging.. Ironically for a film about non-conformity, it adheres to the playbook rather slavishly.. Although not quite as well-focused as The Hunger Games, Divergent employs many of the same elements: a futuristic post-war setting, a...

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The Brothers Grimm (2005) Download Movie

Don't expect new horizons in the annals of odd-couple, comedy-action flicks.. A darker, deeper fantasy epic than the Rings trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia or the Potter films. It springs from the same world of quasi-philosophical magic, but creates more complex villains and poses more intriguing questions.. . . A pretty good fantasy -- with different bits of Potter and Jules Verne and Narnia all...

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) Play Streaming

Surrounding the flashy heroics, however, is a lot of stilted drama. Unresolved subplots make the movie longer than it needs to be.. As always, the biggest screams emanating from the audience come when Lautner bares his chest.. ... a lesson in prehistoric hilarity.. Viewers who value the little things, such as passable acting and dialogue not stolen from a sixth-grader's diary, will once again walk...

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The Guardian (2006) Download Movie

A workmanlike story, an unusual setting, a game cast and a righteous message kind of get lost in the film's excesses. And an imbalance in the leads hampers this by-the-book service-academy drama.. Full of visual dazzle, engaging characters and a reasonably sprightly narrative.. Ice Age comes closer than any other recent animated film to the Looney Tunes ideal.. It's clever enough to amuse adults,...

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War of the Worlds (2005) Online Streaming

War of the Worlds' is a picture without a thought in its pretty head: the Tom Cruise movie to end all Tom Cruise movies.. There's stuff to make you go 'Wow!' but nothing you'll remember the next day.. . A spectacular-looking film, but its ambivalent story and viewpoint ultimately drag it down.. The Four Feathers has rewards, from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping...

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Wildlike (2015) Full Streaming

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Noah (2014) Online Streaming

There's so much delusion and so much delight in "Noah" that I have trouble distinguishing one from the other, or determining whether its most outlandish flourishes qualify as mistakes or as strokes of genius.. Yes, it's brightly colored carnival fun. But this ride, in the end, only goes round and round and round. Which is ultimately more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho.. One of the most dazzling and unforgettable...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) Full Streaming

Relentlessly dense and unfathomable; Depp, the heart and soul of the series, doesn't even show up till several reels in.. . In terms of pure adventure, there's less of it here than in Pirates 2 -- the action doesn't really start until about two hours in, and even then it's hard to understand the shifting allegiances or make sense of why the different sides are fighting.. Not so much thought out as...

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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) Play Movie

Mainly for "Night at the Museum" diehards.. Thor is essentially Marvel's answer to Superman and, as with The Man of Steel, it can be difficult to craft a tale around a hero who is essentially invincible.. Dancing above a leaden plot and lumpy dialogue, Mr. Hiddleston moves his fine-boned features and graceful body, as if what he were doing matters; he seems imported from a quite different movie.....

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Cloverfield (2008) Download Full

Will Condon's movie convert agnostics to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight cult?. . Melodrama reigns in this supernatural soap opera, even though author Stephanie Meyer's tale takes a decided turn toward the weird and violent.. It all goes wrong just when it should go right.. Kung Fu Panda gets across important and inevitable plot information in ways that are novel and unexpected. Things simply don't happen...

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Frozen (2013) Full Movie Streaming

This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. Frozen establishes a strong, confident tone: Cool mythology, rich, vivid animation, and 3-D effects that are actually worth seeing, not just migraine-inducing distractions.. Make way for a new kind of fairy tale. These Frozen princesses are the kind we can definitely warm to.. I...

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) Download Full

The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. 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!!. A masterpiece of genre film-making,...

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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) Online Streaming

It barely matters whether this movie is good or bad. Bay is now the sort of filmmaker -- the only one, perhaps -- whose moviemaking goes beyond such binary banality.. I sincerely enjoyed the Transformer who was literally branded by Oreo.‪. The Transformers are brilliant, brave, world-conquering space travelers. Time to morph into something entertaining.. In the end, though, this is still a movie about...

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World War Z (2013) Full Streaming

World War Z opens with an undeniable bang. But if this is the way the world ends, we're going out with a whimper.. Director Marc Forster can't do much with the stale human story, in which Pitt leaves his frightened wife and daughters on an aircraft carrier to await his return.. [It] does not try to extend the boundaries of commercial entertainment but does what it can to find interesting ways to pass...

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We're the Millers (2013) Full Movie Streaming

The filmmakers lack the courage of their convictions, falling back on moments of egregiously false sentimentality whenever the material threatens to turn dark.. We're The Millers asks you to believe that somewhere in this world there's a pot dealer who prides himself on not selling to kids and a stripper who never takes her bra off.. The result is a loose conglomeration of jokes that never really...

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Madagascar (2005) Download Full

Lacking any meat on its bones, ['Madagascar'] is a cartoon about nothing. Not that there's anything wrong with that.. A delight. Co-writers and -directors McGrath and Eric Darnell, along with their entire team, have done a terrific job with their sweet and whimsical story.. A safe-as-milk, toy-ready, born-to-cross-promote piece of animated Hollywood product that will likely please children but leave...

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Download Movie

What will allow the remaining films to prosper, is the words that we hear at the start, from an elderly caretaker: "Bloody kids.". Goblet of Fire is more effective in these smaller, more intimate moments than in the bloated bombast of its larger set pieces.. The Transformers are brilliant, brave, world-conquering space travelers. Time to morph into something entertaining.. Kloves has streamlined J....

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Pan (2015) Full Movie Streaming

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Oblivion (2013) Online Streaming

The Transformers are brilliant, brave, world-conquering space travelers. Time to morph into something entertaining.. You're either awestruck, dumbstruck or just plain struck in the face.. More adventurous than your typical Hollywood tent pole, "Oblivion" makes you remember why science fiction movies pulled you in way back when and didn't let you go.. It barely matters whether this movie is good or...

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) Full Streaming

. Let's not pretend we're watching art!. Marvelous!. . Unfortunately, it conveys the sense that the machinery has already started to wear down, and the inventiveness to wear thin.. . In scope and ambition, Jediresembles nothing so much as the next level of a computer game, with a new environment, new gadgets and new creatures.. Reasonably fast paced for its 133-minute length, a visual treat throughout.....

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The Last Witch Hunter (2015) Online Streaming

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Spider-Man (2002) Full Streaming

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 characters they all give convincing performances.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. A...

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Chef (2014) Watch Full Movie

Although overly familiar, the behind-the-scenes food shenanigans are often lively and sharply written.. Chef won't knock your socks off, but it believes in itself - and for Favreau, that's all that matters.. The movie's problems aren't small: It moves slowly, meanders everywhere and never quite arrives at a destination.. Chef is lightweight, and could be seen as just a blatant attempt to cash in on...

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) Play Streaming

It's not a classic, but it's sturdy enough, thanks to Gyllenhaal and a sly and grousing turn by Alfred Molina as Sheikh Amar, a scoundrel with a heart of gold -- or at least, a ticker very interested in riches.. The sheer whoosh of the story line keeps you watching anyway, and, as the prince, Jake Gyllenhaal has a hearty good-naturedness that comes as a relief amid all the turbocharged antics. He...

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Jurassic World (2015) Watch Full Movie

Even without world-class smarts or amusing mutations, the next generation of "Jurassic" is an enjoyable ride.. In terms of its thrills and graphic design, it still looks like a low-to-mid-range Spielberg effort.. Pratt proved in "Guardians" that he could handle hunky leading man roles, and his combination of physicality, charisma and attitude prove hard to resist one more time.. You don't go to the...

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Scooby-Doo (2002) Play Movie

Much funnier than it has any right to be, and filled with just enough inside jokes to please longtime fans of the cartoon franchise.. Once the plot dominoes are arranged in an overlong series of setups, Seventh Son ends up being a movie about walking, interrupted occasionally by a battle against a mythological monster.. The movie drags, and the occasional bursts of mirth and self-referential humor...

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Interstellar (2014) Play Movie

After the first hour, with its poignant depiction of humanity's decline, Interstellar always seems to be rebuilding its momentum, offering plenty to think about but little to hold on to.. 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!!. This movie is an epic action movie...

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Blade: Trinity (2004) Online Streaming

Lacks anything vaguely resembling a plot, while failing to deliver suspense or thrills.. Watching Blade: Trinity is like being rolled down a marble staircase in an oil drum. The movie is loud, dark, bumpy and not even a little fun.. Diverting but dumb and more goth than gothic, Blade: Trinity builds up to a less-than-epochal smackdown.. This year's entry in the Movies You Admire and Respect but Don't...

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The Martian (2015) Full Streaming

Turns out getting stranded on Mars can lead to a whole lot of fun.. The film is a profound testament to the rare-and underrated-virtue of simply not screwing anything up.. This is science fiction for sophisticated audiences and, as such, a fulfilling and satisfying experience.. It's a brisk, funny piece of competence-porn sci-fi.. A tremendously exciting popcorn spectacle, and also a portrait of extraplanetary...

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The A-Team (2010) Play Movie

The A-Team is reasonably good fun. If you're a 12-year-old boy riding an intense Cherry Pepsi buzz and totally devoted to destroying some brain cells, that is.. I pity the fool who fails to share the popcorn.. The characters ... are without interest. Their problems are not our problems. But the sheer motion, the spectacle and the flashes of wit take The A-Team out of the realm of garbage. It's fun.....

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Stardust (2007) Watch Full Movie

An overstuffed, overlong epic with a tongue-in-cheek approach that repeatedly begs unfavorable comparisons with The Princess Bride.. Stardust suffers from uneven pacing and some cheesy-looking special effects. But the fine cast keeps things watchable.. . Stardust [feels] episodic and clunky, constantly straining for the impression of overall coherent design that Gaiman renders invisible.. . Everybody...

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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Full Streaming

For the most part, "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is the hard-charging, mind-boggling spectacle fans are looking for. Smash indeed.. The amazing thing about Avengers: Age of Ultron is that it's reasonably enjoyable while feeling less like a movie than an epic sowing of seeds for multiple Marvel properties.. As before, the greatest fun is in watching the original Avengers, all fine actors who've made the...

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Alice in Wonderland (2010) Full Streaming

Indecision haunts every frame. The result is a clattering, hectic spectacle that by the end has run out of inspiration. It's a home for abandoned ideas.. No knockouts here. No tkos, either.. . . Its single biggest failing -- an affront to Lewis Carroll and the charms of nonsense literature -- is the fact that it makes sense.. Burton, one of the great visual artists in Hollywood history, is incapable...

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