Bridge of Spies (2015) Spille Film

Deep under the skin of this shrug of a movie is a solid metaphor rooted in an appealing fantasy.. You'd think a movie about transplanting human consciousness would be smarter than this.. The elaborately convoluted, soul-swapping thriller "Self/less" squanders its intriguing premise with a loud and labored beat-the-bad-guys trajectory.. "Self/less" ultimately earns its title, but it could just as easily have been called "Brain/less," "Pulse/less" and "Point/less.". A riveting, feel-good time for ...

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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) Fuld Streaming

In Shutter Island, director Martin Scorsese has created a divinely dark and devious brain tease of a movie in the best noir tradition.. Writer-director Christopher Nolan's second film is one of the most original and ultimately confounding mind games to reach the screen since The Usual Suspects.. . Memento is one of those jigsaw puzzles whose pieces snap together more tightly with each viewing. Fueling it all is a performance by Guy Pearce that's as indelible as the tattoo ink covering his body.....

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Slow West (2015) Online Streaming

"Slow West" certainly lives up to its title: It's one poky Western, plodding and perambulating and moseying across the 1870 frontier on a grim march to a pointless ending.. It's all of 84 minutes. But when it's done, you know you've seen something.. The movie is almost completely lacking in suspense, surprise and consistent emotional conviction.. It's fair to speculate whether Shyamalan's persistence in replicating the otherworldly formula of The Sixth Sense might not be a futile and self-defeat...

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Prisoners (2013) Spille Streaming

If you are an "X" maniac, Singer's given you the movie you've been hoping for.. The results are both dazzling and intimate, clever and - during one tour-de-force sequence - spectacularly funny.. The filmmakers doesn't sweat the fact that Eddie is a chemically enhanced fraud. What scares them is any possibility of alienating the movie's target audience with a downer ending.. A film that seems headed toward one conclusion, then veers toward another over 2/₂ of the fastest-moving hours I've s...

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Fast & Furious 7 (2015) Se Streaming

A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. I really like this movie. thank you. It's all entertaining enough, I suppose. But there's a twisted coldness under the action that's anxiously concealed by the characters' refrains of the importance of "family" and sticking together and other ostensibly nice stuff.. The movie doesn't hold together as well as the previous chapter, but that's really a function of expanding the cast still further.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most crin...

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I Spit on Your Grave (2010) Download Fuld

The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Not surprisingly, the remake gussies up the grindhouse roughness of the first film, which makes it relatively more palatable -- yet still vapid and repulsive -- while also, in a perverse way, selling it out.. For a variety of reasons, most having to do with a weak screenplay and poor pacing, The Expendables 3 is t...

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Gangster Squad (2013) Online Streaming

Maclean has something worthwhile to say about the true brutality of the old West, especially as it relates to immigration, but he hasn't quite found a compelling context for those musings, and he sprays ideas like buckshot.. An angular Western that sublimates the fading promise of the New World into a fairy tale of unrequited love, Slow West starts with "once upon a time" and ends with a crackle of incredible savagery.. A cartoonish 1940s shoot-'em-up that's impossible to take seriously.. Like m...

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Before I Go to Sleep (2014) Fuld Streaming

Although "Before I Go to Sleep" is a handsomely made, often intriguingly twisty thriller, it feels like awfully familiar business.. Nothing can save this repetitive bore. Dude, where's your memory?. Despite its intriguing premise, the film amounts to little more than tedious, cliched melodramatics.. A dopey script personified by Kutcher's dopey, immutable hair style morphs Rashomon into Dude, Where's My Karma?. Not one second of this bilge makes a lick of sense.. [An] average thriller that's pun...

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Irréversible (2002) Se Streaming

There's less to Irreversible than meets even the most unblinking of eyes.. Is there a point to this spew, a cry against the mongrel violence of men? Or is Noe merely a sadist who enjoys inflicting ugly, pitiless images on his audience?. Fails because of its gratuitous rape and violence and also because of its pretentious and intellectually one-dimensional grounds, which make the violence at the end feel even worse.. . . An integrated work whose form clearly mirrors its content.. Excruciating exe...

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Abernes planet Revolutionen (2014) Se Streaming

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the best and brainiest blockbuster of the summer, the kind of movie you hope for when you pay your money and buy your popcorn.. Reeves directs with great dynamism, and his scenes of masses of apes swinging through treetops and swarming through San Francisco streets are rousingly staged.. It is certainly thrilling to see how Reeves and his CGI wizards bring their hordes of apes to life. Honestly, if I didn't know they were computerized, I'd have thought they'd br...

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The Others (2001) Fuld Streaming

An unconvincing, pretentiously artsy pastiche of just about every hoary old gothic thriller you can think of.. The film has everything you want in a supernatural thriller except thrills.. Kidman has thrown herself into her role as if it were Lady Macbeth on the London stage, with formidable results.. It's atmospheric, stylish, and spooky. The plot is well thought-out and its secrets and mysteries are unveiled slowly. Unfortunately, it is also cold, distancing, and moves at a glacial pace.. Bumpy...

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Signs (2002) Fuld Streaming

Turns out to have few thoughts and no thrills.. Shyamalan's by-now trademark spookiness is starting to play like a CD consciously designed to duplicate the success of an album that sold 10 million copies.. There's plenty here that testifies to Shyamalan's exceptional talent.. One of the most effective movies so far at capturing a jittery nation's case of the yips.. One creep fest of a movie.. Ultimately, Signs -- as original, interesting and ambitious as it is -- is a post-9/11 movie of possibly...

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Poltergeist (2015) Download Film

I found myself admiring the movie's stubborn adherence to its own universe and logic.. There are some jumps but few legitimate scares, unlike director Tobe Hooper's original, which, although similarly bloodless, still stands as one of the scariest movies ever made.. With its James Bond-on-acid action scenes and puzzle-within-a-maze-within-a-puzzle mind games, Inception is certainly the most daring and original blockbuster of the year, as well as a visual tour de force. If it only had a heart.. I...

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Child 44 (2015) Spille Streaming

You could easily imagine Hill and Franco in a parody version, with Franco, like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, crossing and uncrossing his legs to each probing question.. Unfortunately this "Story" never finds its footing as either a creepy morality play or a performance-driven two-hander.. Child 44 could have been far more compelling had it dug deeper into its political thriller layers and not drifted into yet another story of a diabolical killer on the loose.. [An] intermittently fascinating ...

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Dame, konge, es, spion (2011) Fuld Film Streaming

Alfredsen made the excellent vampire thriller "Let the Right One In," and his knack for brackish, enveloping atmosphere is rare indeed.. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" looks, sounds and feels exactly right.. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" has a murkiness to it that perfectly fits a spy film; you need to pay attention, or the story will slip away into the shadows.. It's a 1970s story told in 1970s style, an unrepentant un-reboot so old school that it feels subversively new.. The movie is riveting in...

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I Am Legend (2007) Online Streaming

A deliberate, cerebral, grim and utterly absorbing film that makes covert operations appear as unsexy as the Bourne films made them seem fast-paced and thrilling.. The cast is uniformly excellent, but as the ringleader of the Circus, Oldman owns the proceedings. In his limitless constraint - his commanding torpor - he is the equal of the magnificent Alec Guinness in the miniseries.. I Am Legend is a blockbuster like no other, one that finds its grandness in modesty. It's a star vehicle with a st...

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Illusionisten (2006) Fuld Streaming

Underneath its hocus-pocus is a compelling story, very well told.. The story may be less than credible, but the performances are mostly good, and Giamatti makes an especially strong showing.. There's nothing here but wreckage. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is so ineptly made that the story is advanced solely through announcements.. A pleasant diversion serious enough to offer a little soul.. What (director Neil) Burger and his colleagues have done is to entrance us with a richly acted, be...

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Southpaw (2015) Download Film

The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense ...

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The Secret in their Eyes (2009) Fuld Streaming

The entire film is stocked with images that reflect a character and story in flux.. A blistering, thought-provoking modern masterpiece.. Although it has some memorably disquieting scenes, this story of long-delayed justice is sustained by its melancholy more than its thrills.. DiCaprio's solid, though I wonder if a real CIA agent could get away with looking so earnest every second. Crowe has the right idea, in addition to all the fun: Just throw it away, throw it away and pretty soon you build y...

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Memento (2000) Fuld Film Streaming

Showing an explosive temper and a wounded psyche, DiCaprio eerily channels the great Richard Widmark, a film noir giant, as Teddy, a shaky World War II veteran still at war with his memories.. . I am neither upset nor disturbed by Memento , only vaguely dissatisfied. I simply don't buy Jonathan Nolan's thesis that audiences know all the tropes and tricks of crime thrillers backward and forward.. It comes on strong, but in its bloody heart of hearts it's no more resonant than one of those old Vin...

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