Self/less (2015) Play Movie

Singh once seemed an original, but Self/less doesn't have a distinctive bone in either of its bodies.. Deep under the skin of this shrug of a movie is a solid metaphor rooted in an appealing fantasy.. Self/less never really gets over the fact that much of it consists of a bland-ish, raincoat-clad everyman driving around and pointing guns at people before the inevitable, underwhelming confrontation with the big bad.. Self/less is so restrained that I wonder if somebody stole Tarsem Singh's body, ...

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Law Abiding Citizen (2009) Full Movie Streaming

Sure, it's outta place for October, but there's no reason you can't enjoy a mindless piece of candy against the backdrop of fall foliage.. It's shallow, it's silly, it's pat. It's... forgettable.. It's a "Who dies next?" slasher film masquerading as a revenge thriller.. . The exploration of right and wrong, and its complicated lack of clarity, gets trammeled amid the bevy of explosions, volley of bullets and mounting body count.. Ultimately just feels like a mess, screeching back and forth in ti...

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District 9 (2009) Full Streaming

In a good summer, there's usually a movie that will come out of nowhere and completely wow us. This is a good summer, and that movie is District 9.. District 9 has too many gory vaporizations to qualify as a serious statement on race relations, but it does outclank Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen by a wide margin, and you thrill to the cleanly cut action sequences.. Perhaps we're witnessing a new dawn for politically engaged sci-fi and horror, with Blomkamp as a latter-day George Romero. Eit...

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Jack Reacher (2012) Watch Streaming

Although reasonably, cheesily suspenseful, the movie takes a long time to get going. Its tagline, 'There's something wrong with Esther,' turns out to be a masterpiece of understatement.. It would be harder to find a more dark and joyless thriller on the market than this one.. The best thing about Orphan, is the way it plays with the genre's overused staples and its sophisticated audience's expectations.. The picture is joyless and perfunctory. Call it Mission: Possible.. There is a dogged leanne...

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Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) Full Streaming

The quiet stretches actually serve their purpose here, creating a sense of intimacy with the characters as opposed to simply marking time between the shocks.. I leapt out of my seat and grabbed the arm of the critic sitting next to me so often (and he did the same, although he shall remain nameless) that you'd think we'd never seen a horror movie before.. It stands well on its own as a jumpy spookfest.. Writer-directors Wan and Whannell are best known for their grisly Saw movies, but they seem t...

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Orphan (2009) Download Full

The best thing about Orphan, is the way it plays with the genre's overused staples and its sophisticated audience's expectations.. Actors have to eat like the rest of us, but you still have to wonder how Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard ended up wading through Orphan and not laughing.. Clocking in at more than two hours, the movie teeters between psychological horror and violent blood-letting and, as such, probably won't completely satisfy fans in either camp.. [Orphan] never exploits the dramat...

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I Am Legend (2007) Download Movie

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins to seem phlegmatic after a while.. These guys make proper English diction as compelling as a gunfight, and "Tinker Tailor" as satisfying as any shoot-'em-up using real bullets instead of words to get its point across.. After its promising opening, I Am Legend devolves into a generic zombie slaughterfest, highly reminiscent of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and its sequel 28 Weeks Later.. The movie works well while it's running, although it raises questions that l...

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