Run All Night (2015) Play Movie

If you skip it, you're missing one of the year's signal works of superior Hollywood craftsmanship.. Fuqua's movie is just as dopey and creaky as the series.. Though Neeson, as usual, gives an effective performance, maybe it's time for him to lighten up and climb out of his rut. "Run All Night" feels like he's run into a career dead end.. Under all his action-star antics, Liam Neeson is a good actor. So his insistence on repeatedly playing a variation of the same role is mystifying.. Sinister 2 c...

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Ocean's Eleven (2001) Watch Full Movie

Argo has that solid, kick-the-tires feel of those studio films from the 70s that were about something but also entertained. Only it's as laugh outright amusing as it is sobering.. Nothing can stop the wicked smoulder of Stevens, who makes a smile seem like a weapon of mass destruction.. A lark for everybody concerned, including the audience.. Dumb fun is rarely this smartly delivered.. The pleasures of The Guest lie mainly in anticipating how the next expected corner will be turned.. Dan Stevens...

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Riddick (2013) Watch Streaming

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.. Fans of lean, mean, testosterone-steeped sci-fi action are likely to find Riddick kind of a blast, however -- even though it offers few surprises.. Twohy is trying to do something with his original character. It's just not clear what that something is anymore. Maybe it's time this franchise fades to black for good.. A modestly budg...

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The Day After Tomorrow (2004) Watch Streaming

For all of its dire premonitions, foreshadowings of horror and easy targets for Jay Leno jokes, The Day After Tomorrow is eye-poppingly awesome and wonderfully entertaining.. An exceptionally stupid movie.. [Its] portrayal of violence derives more from video games than from history.. A shambles of dud writing and dramatic inconsequence which left me determined to double my consumption of fossil fuels.. The Day After Tomorrow isn't satisfying in every way, but in the ways that really matter, it's...

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The Babadook (2014) Download Full

This is a really scary movie.. One of those incongruous Franken-films that's simultaneously bombastically brutal and treacly.. The Babadook makes everyday domestic life seem like the most natural possible place to encounter monsters of every description, including the monsters that we ourselves have the capacity to become.. Sometimes you go to a movie and know from the first image that whoever made it knows what she's doing. You don't need convincing. You're there with her. Jennifer Kent's The B...

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Full Movie Streaming

Wolverine's backstory was good stuff -- but after the falling out with Schreiber, the story loses its center and it gets wobbly.. Jackman's committed performance keeps the movie on track, though Huston and Schreiber are strictly on autopilot.. . What a wasteful shame.. Alas, there's nothing quite memorable here: much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the X-Men series has progressed, the startling poetic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pou...

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Dawn of the Dead (2004) Download Full

The remake, from first-time director Snyder, keeps much of the gore and loads up on the laughs, but eschews all pretence at cultural criticism in favour of high-octane, almost nonstop action.. The joke isn't fresh, but it holds up well in this crackling remake of George Romero's 1978 sequel to Night of the Living Dead.. ... bloody good fun.. [Sarah Polly] pretty much owns the picture, beginning with a slam-dunk prologue that establishes right off that this isn't your dad's Dawn, despite a plot t...

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