The movie's scope is breathtaking, delivering the most expansive portrait of the illegal narcotics trade ever put on film.. Director Steven Soderbergh is riding one of the hottest streaks in the movie world.. It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied.. The promise of Sex, Lies, and Videotape has been fulfilled.. Traffic sometimes has the impact of a tense war film or a grittily modernist, post-...
Red Dawn (2012) Watch Streaming
A movie in search of its moment.. Was anybody out there clamoring for a remake of "Red Dawn"? Show of hands? Anybody?. Scenes are rather murkily shot and characters are like cardboard cutouts.. Red Dawn without the jingoism is like a pie without the filling-it collapses into splintered mush.. Despite the more realistic battle scenes, nothing in it feels more fateful than a football game.. John Milius's...
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The Gambler (2014) Full Movie Streaming
Director Louis Leterrier has the energy but not the visual grace to match the elegant malefactions of his characters.. The more you see of the movie and the more elaborate the tricks get, the less you are inclined to believe that humans rather than machines are in charge of the illusions.. This certainly is one driven narrative. Wahlberg reportedly lost 60 lbs. for the role, and his gaunt look makes...
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) Download Movie
The climactic one-two punch of special-effects chaos and meta-movie chin stroking should have the fanboys trembling with delight.. For all of its many intellectual pleasures, and smart commentary, Cabin in the Woods is a visceral roller coaster of a movie at heart. And like the best thrill rides, when it's over, you just want to get back on and go again.. If you like nutty energy, wacky ideas, crisp...
Sherlock Holmes (2009) Watch Full Movie
What was the thinking behind all this?. Playing literature's greatest detective as a sort of self-loathing action hero, Downey has an absolute blast. And thanks to his performance in Sherlock Holmes, so do we.. At times, Ritchie and company try so hard to make sure this isn't your father's Sherlock Holmes that it comes across as, well, cartoonish.. The Town is an exciting and extremely well acted...
Hannibal (2001) Full Movie Streaming
Silly though handsomely staged.. Unsatisfying.. Bears many of the wounds of the book's confusion.. The weight-watchers script sensibly dispenses with several characters to serve a brew that's enjoyably spicy but low on substance.. Isn't in the same class as the original, but as sequels go, it's no Porky's 2, either.. Meandering, emotionally empty and thoroughly unsavory, it's not so much shocking...
Before I Go to Sleep (2014) Play Movie
It isn't Hitchcock, but it will do.. Kutcher scores laughs, both intentional and otherwise, and only seems at home in those Dude, Where's My Car? moments. And dude brings everybody else down with him.. A dopey script personified by Kutcher's dopey, immutable hair style morphs Rashomon into Dude, Where's My Karma?. . . If the story is a smidge predictable, at least the movie is pleasingly old-fashioned...