Insomnia (2002) Download Full

You see Robin Williams and psycho killer, and you think, hmmmmm. You see the movie and you think, zzzzzzzzz.. The Hollywood version (which is half an hour longer) transports the action to Alaska, and works up a respectable level of bleary-eyed paranoia.. As Pacino endures day after day without a wink of sleep, Insomnia skillfully turns the screws, delving further into his troubled mind as it's haunted by past and present sins, as well as deceptive visions that seem to bleed out of his conscience...

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Child 44 (2015) Play Streaming

Taut, well-made and entirely dubious.. Thanks to a feeble script, bland direction and - God, why? - those impenetrable accents, no one emerges from this fiasco with much dignity.. In terms of pure popcorn escapism, No Escape delivers from the get-go, cutting to the chase without belabouring the character details.. Just say nyet.. It's as tedious as a bottomless bowl of borscht.. Strict plausibility isn't necessary in these movies, but you can't just throw it out the window, and "No Escape" shows...

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Gangster Squad (2013) Play Movie

"Gangster Squad" talks tough and hits hard, but it is a victim of its own brute force.. Director Ruben Fleischer and screenwriter Will Beall can't decide whether to make a spoof or a serious drama, so they wrongheadedly attempt both.. Sitting through the last reel (spoiler alert!) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House.. Like most genre manipulations, the film feels one step removed from inspi...

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The Last House on the Left (2009) Play Movie

The action scenes are particularly gripping.. Sure, the movie is predictable (a convenient storm causes power outages and therefore the dark house is creepily candlelit and who knows who's lurking behind the door), but it keeps its audience on edge.. A shockingly mundane disappointment taken on its own and a deeply misguided refraction of the original.. I suspect the movie's sound designers deserve some kind of an award: thanks to them, the damage one can inflict with small appliances and a gian...

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The Village (2004) Download Movie

There is no doubt that Shyamalan is a gifted director who knows how to push audience buttons, but heavy-handed horror shows like this one make the man behind the camera seems less an artist than a huckster.. Shyamalan's most mature and least showy film to date.. Did you think a second G.I. Joe movie was a good idea?. It's tedious instead of provocative and so unconvincing as to be preposterous.. High on foreboding atmospherics and low on goosebumps.. A lumbering beast, bogged down by too many ch...

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The Lives of Others (2006) Full Movie Streaming

. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. Morally complex, beautifully shaded and filled with fascinating characters, this debut film from director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck brings us into a world that severely tests moral fiber.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away fro...

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Zodiac (2007) Play Streaming

Any honest neurotic could probably tell you: the emotional payoff of an obsession is not attaining some longed-for goal -- it's the obsession itself, which fulfills certain needs.. Abel is a man with ideals in a world that has no use for them: If he's going to succeed, he's going to have to use his wits instead of bullets.. Without a persuasive ending, Zodiac is an exercise in frustration.. Oscar Isaac has been extremely good in previous roles, but he is an utter revelation as Abel, the quiet po...

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