Charlie's Angels (2000) Online Streaming

Charlie's Angels is like the trailer for a video game movie, lacking only the video game, and the movie.. The cast members seem to be having a high old time, and with sharper dialogue, an even higher time might have been had by all.. There's no grace or wit here, no surprise -- and not even much nostalgia.. The funniest pop-culture romp since Austin Powers first pranced down Carnaby Street.. Charlie's Angels is like a Hong Kong flick but without the bogus spirituality and excruciating schlock-po...

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Z for Zachariah (2015) Watch Streaming

It's the three actors that make the film work, particularly Australian actress Robbie who follows a small-yet-effective role in The Wolf of Wall Street with more nuanced and ultimately powerful work.. You wouldn't think a movie called Need For Speed would feel so slow.. This is a film you want to see for the racing, and in that sense it doesn't disappoint.. The triangle that "Zachariah" sketches among the last three folks on earth is all too human.. The world has ended. Streets are deserted. Hum...

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The Gunman (2015) Watch Streaming

I doubt The Gunman will do much to advance Penn's foray into action-hero bankability, and that's probably a good thing. He's too fine an actor to be mired in nonstop shootouts while flashing his pecs and looking scowly.. The actors are good and the action is thrilling. And if the film isn't quite as seriously political as I'm guessing Penn told himself it was, it's definitely an offbeat change of pace for us.. The filmmakers appear to have handed a dozen or so G.I. Joe dolls to a 9-year-old, wat...

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The Box (2009) Online Streaming

Kelly has talent, but for his next movie, he might try coming down to earth and forgetting about the people who control the lightning.. 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.. "The Box" looks like a fairly nifty package of premise and paranoia until Kelly unpacks it, and a lot of both the fun and fear go out of the film as you feel it stumble towards the finish lin...

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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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