RoboCop (2014) Play Streaming

There are some interesting things about "RoboCop," and - no, wait, that's a lie.. Neither Alex Murphy's internal moral conflict nor the larger, vaguely satiric portrait of a global culture dependent on high-tech law enforcement seem to be the main point of this Robocop remake, which raises the question of what is meant to be the point.. The concept is lame, and the execution is lame, too. The more the film advances, the less we care about the plot - or anything that happens to anybody, really.. ...

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Elysium (2013) Download Movie

An epic about saving humanity that feels more manufactured than human.. Although the pulp energy that Blomkamp brings to this material makes it consistently watchable, the film doesn't feel as singular as we would have hoped.. Though Elysium is a testament to Blomkamp's extraordinary skill as a visual filmmaker, it does not speak nearly so well for his gifts as a writer.. If Elysium is an example of how recession-era Hollywood intends to dramatize the rift between the haves and the have-nots, le...

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The Others (2001) Play Streaming

. Worth seeing more than once.. A tantalizing spine-tingler.. Something that giants such as Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Tim Burton have not been able to match so far this year.. Overall, Almenabar offers too little, too late in the story for viewers who like a sporting chance to out-think their thrillers.. Clever as the film is, though, it turns out to be an exercise in narrative withholding that's more headache provoking than suspense laden.. I saw the ending a mile away and couldn't hav...

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Nightcrawler (2014) Watch Streaming

Writer-director Dan Gilroy wants it both ways - snarling comedy and gripping thriller - and for the most part he gets what he wants.. A mesmerizing cipher, Lou is a spiritual descendant of Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, and of the withholding protagonists in the existential French crime films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville. "Nightcrawler" executes its ideas with tremendous craft and cool, and the courageous and counterintuitive pairing of its leads - Russo is 60, and ...

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Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey. (2014) Full Streaming

I really like this movie. thank you. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. 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 si...

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Ocean's Twelve (2004) Download Full

In this sprawling oglefest, such things as 'narrative' and 'story' are remote little abstractions indeed.. . . The pleasures are entirely in the digressions, which are silly and often delightful.. . This embarrassing sequel to the 2001 remake of the old Rat Pack romp is bogus on a biblical scale -- a bunch of smug movie stars, goofing on their images, wandering through the wilderness for 40 years. Or what seems like it.. How many movies recapture the blithe spirit of Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pa...

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True Story (2015) Watch Streaming

The script is first-rate, questioning whether any story can really be credible when both the writer and the subject have everything to gain from it.. While the movie sometimes seems like faux Fincher, the symbiotic acting, artful imagery and punchline ending turn "True Story" into credible entertainment.. Never mind the facts. True Story, slick and shaky, doesn't know where the truth lies.. Even with shrewd and honest work by Franco and Hill and a solid supporting turn from under-used Felicity J...

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