Oldboy (2003) Play Streaming

Both brutal and lyrical, writer-director Park Chan-wook's existential nail-biter has torture scenes that will have you avoiding dentists, sushi bars and badly appointed hotel rooms.. How does all this play out for those of us -- i.e., me -- who have not been staying up nights fretting over the origins of the X-Men and Women? The answer is: Fairly well.. Jackman's committed performance keeps the movie on track, though Huston and Schreiber are strictly on autopilot.. What a wasteful shame.. Kelly ...

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The Butterfly Effect (2004) Play Streaming

Ultimately just feels like a mess, screeching back and forth in time, dragging its actors from one miserable scene to another.. Not one second of this bilge makes a lick of sense.. . Better than you might expect despite its awkward, slow beginning, drawing you in gradually and paying off in surprisingly effective and bittersweet ways.. . What if on my way to the screening, something had intervened -- a runaway bus, a lightning bolt -- to prevent me from ever seeing this movie. How would my life ...

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World War Z (2013) Full Movie 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.. Except for the opening 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and the middle 45 of Pearl Harbor -- produced, like this film, by action overlord Jerry Bruckheimer -- no film has ever dropped us so convincingly into combat.. As both thrilling spectacle and escapist summer entertainment, World War Z is enormously effective, with Brad Pitt at the center hopscotching the globe in search of th...

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The Pacifier (2005) Play Streaming

A solid entry into the film noir genre.. The concept that sort of worked for Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a cringe-inducing misfire for Vin Diesel in this sloppy mess of a family film that's neither cute nor funny.. With the combo of Neeson's natural solemnity and his action chops, "Tombstones" treads compellingly amongst lesser thrillers.. [An] unintentional fascist satire.. Making the audience wish they were seeing an old Hulk Hogan movie is simply sad.. Teaming a tarnished hero with violated...

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The Lazarus Effect (2015) Online 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 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.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action mo...

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No Escape (2015) Full Movie Streaming

Leads with its chin from the title on down and which turns a startling tale of true crime and false identities into a heavy-breathing drama that, ironically, fails to convince.. 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.. A taut thriller about an American family touching down in an unnamed country just as a violent coup erupts, No Escape goes about its gut-churning business by playing (and p...

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No Country for Old Men (2007) Download Full

The storytelling is fluid, especially when directors Joel and Ethan Coen start eliding some of the murders and ask us to imagine them for ourselves.. You needn't be a fanboy to enjoy the moment when the ride really takes off and the spectacle flowers. A scary imagination will do just fine.. No Country for Old Men looks into the unfathomable depths of evil and poses existential questions about human destiny. Meanwhile, it takes your breath away.. Though there are plot holes in the elaborately con...

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