Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008) Download Movie

<p>The acting is macho understatement.. Much of it plays like an unintentional mash-up of the numerous wrong-side-of-the-law sagas that preceded it.. Vincent Cassel sets a new standard for Gallic cool as the title character.. A bold and exciting cinematic tale of a well-known French criminal.. The screenplay, by Richet and Abdel Raouf Dafri, is a superb work of condensation, amplification and imagination.. An exhilarating old-school crime pic.. Killer Instinct is generally fast-paced but the need t... <div id="rmore">1259014</div></p>

The acting is macho understatement.. Much of it plays like an unintentional mash-up of the numerous wrong-side-of-the-law sagas that preceded it.. Vincent Cassel sets a new standard for Gallic cool as the title character.. A bold and exciting cinemat…

Casino Jack (2010) Download Movie

<p>It's a movie of sporadically entertaining scenes that add up to a vaguely unsatisfying whole.. Mr. Hickenlooper's oddly apolitical caper film loses itself in the puzzle of its protagonist's personality.. A difficult and demanding movie, one that rewards the persevering moviegoer just as Pollock's difficult and demanding paintings ultimately reward the steadfast.. Just -- yes, just -- one more film about that perennially obdurate subject, an artist.. Spacey has fun doing Abramoff doing Al Pacino,... <div id="rmore">1194417</div></p>

It's a movie of sporadically entertaining scenes that add up to a vaguely unsatisfying whole.. Mr. Hickenlooper's oddly apolitical caper film loses itself in the puzzle of its protagonist's personality.. A difficult and demanding movie, one that rewa…

The Liberator (2013) Full Streaming

<p>Right from the start, The Liberator looks like televisual hackwork, despite an impressive budget.. Cassel, who took the best actor award at France's equivalent of the Oscars for this role, is compulsively watchable.. Performs the unlikely trick of being both taut and plotless.. Arvelo, a Venezuelan like Bolivar, touches many of the essential bases in Bolivar's story. But, perhaps inevitably, he is only able to achieve little more than mere touches.. The emotions and desires that "The Liberator" ... <div id="rmore">2387513</div></p>

Right from the start, The Liberator looks like televisual hackwork, despite an impressive budget.. Cassel, who took the best actor award at France's equivalent of the Oscars for this role, is compulsively watchable.. Performs the unlikely trick of be…

Charlie Wilson's War (2007) Download Full

<p>Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror.. Clooney makes a sharply entertaining directorial debut.. All those who still get a chill every time they step into a hotel shower, say aye. That, you see, is the power of Psycho.. It is so much fun watching these actors enjoy bouncing off each other, it's almost too easy to forget the importance of the story ... <div id="rmore">0472062</div></p>

Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror.. Clooney makes a sharply entertaining directorial debut.. All…

Electric Slide (2014) Download Movie

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Thirteen (2003) Watch Full Movie

<p>As both violent drama and character study, Israeli director Ariel Vromen's film does everything it should.. There's not much meat at this banquet, only sweets.. It's very pretty and occasionally amusing but also dreadfully dull for long, long stretches.. Stands as an agonizing look at the giddy energies and terrible pains of characters whose lives have grown beyond their resources to cope.. The movie ends as it started, with Marie in a carriage, unaware of the fate we know awaits her. It's the l... <div id="rmore">0328538</div></p>

As both violent drama and character study, Israeli director Ariel Vromen's film does everything it should.. There's not much meat at this banquet, only sweets.. It's very pretty and occasionally amusing but also dreadfully dull for long, long stretch…

The Devil's Double (2011) Play Streaming

<p>The hero of "The Devil's Double" may get upstaged by the villain, but that's not exactly bad news for star Dominic Cooper, since he plays both parts.. . . . . . The elements of tyranny, treachery and temptation are all there in one true-life package, but in the hands of director Lee Tamahori, The Devil's Double plays more like a melodrama than a docudrama.. . Even more tasteless than its main character's gold 'n' marble palace.. . . . Equally as offensive as the movie's smorgasbord of smut and v... <div id="rmore">1270262</div></p>

The hero of "The Devil's Double" may get upstaged by the villain, but that's not exactly bad news for star Dominic Cooper, since he plays both parts.. . . . . . The elements of tyranny, treachery and temptation are all there in one true-life package,…

Monster (2003) Play Streaming

<p>Brutal, brilliant, depressing and riveting.. [Theron] captures the essence of the woman, a lifelong victim who preys on her customers with the determined sadness of someone who has finally snapped inside.. . Walks a very delicate line: It doesn't excuse or glamorize the actions of its main character, serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron), but it does offer an understanding of her -- or, at least, of the version of Wuornos this film presents.. A small movie with a gigantic performance by... <div id="rmore">0340855</div></p>

Brutal, brilliant, depressing and riveting.. [Theron] captures the essence of the woman, a lifelong victim who preys on her customers with the determined sadness of someone who has finally snapped inside.. . Walks a very delicate line: It doesn't exc…

Saving Mr. Banks (2013) Download Full

<p>The picture finally succeeds as the kind of fantasy that its two main characters consorted in, individually and, on one project, together.. Demonstrates how good Soderbergh is with actors.. Ridley Scott's gangster flick aims high and mostly measures up.. Most people will come away from Saving Mr. Banks feeling like they just sat through a feature-length ad for the magic of Walt Disney, with P.L. Travers' life tacked on as an afterthought.. Pencil Thompson in now for an Oscar nomination, and mayb... <div id="rmore">2140373</div></p>

The picture finally succeeds as the kind of fantasy that its two main characters consorted in, individually and, on one project, together.. Demonstrates how good Soderbergh is with actors.. Ridley Scott's gangster flick aims high and mostly measures …

The Bling Ring (2013) Play Streaming

<p>A modern-day cautionary tale about youth run amok that, for all its ripped-from-the-headlines topicality, still exudes a dreamy, otherworldly perfume.. A pleasing, intelligent film happy to describe Hoover's behaviour as monstrous but too balanced and searching to damn him as a monster.. Director Steven Frears deserves special mention. A lesser filmmaker could so easily have turned this project into mushy, sentimental junk. The tear-jerking moments here are heartfelt and real. It's the kind of f... <div id="rmore">2132285</div></p>

A modern-day cautionary tale about youth run amok that, for all its ripped-from-the-headlines topicality, still exudes a dreamy, otherworldly perfume.. A pleasing, intelligent film happy to describe Hoover's behaviour as monstrous but too balanced an…

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008) Full Streaming

<p>Mesrine's promised end in November 1979 arrives as history recorded it, but, by that time, you're hoping the next vogue in biopics is the short film.. Helen Mirren outdoes even her Oscar-winning performance in The Queen.. Literature lasts, but sometimes, The Last Station suggests, the ties that bind last, too.. Basically a slice of formulaic Hollywood-style mythmaking, writ large and woefully empty.. If you come to this expecting the philosophical depth and psychological detail of Tolstoy's work... <div id="rmore">0411272</div></p>

Mesrine's promised end in November 1979 arrives as history recorded it, but, by that time, you're hoping the next vogue in biopics is the short film.. Helen Mirren outdoes even her Oscar-winning performance in The Queen.. Literature lasts, but someti…

Machine Gun Preacher (2011) Watch Full Movie

<p>It's satire, but not quite funny enough; a love story, but not quite sincere enough.. It finds the humor in an unlikely love story, and it resists any temptation to play it straight.. . With his manic glare, ferociously eager smile, hyperkinetic body language and talent for instant self-transformation, Mr. Carrey has rarely been more charismatic on the screen.. Becoming Jane becomes a rather ordinary, though sporadically entertaining, game of dress-up.. Such an endearing oddity that you have to ... <div id="rmore">1586752</div></p>

It's satire, but not quite funny enough; a love story, but not quite sincere enough.. It finds the humor in an unlikely love story, and it resists any temptation to play it straight.. . With his manic glare, ferociously eager smile, hyperkinetic body…

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Play Movie

<p>"Exodus: Gods and Kings" does a fair job of giving us what might be called The Second-Greatest Story Ever Told. What it never convinces us of is why.. Computer-generated imaging has advanced spectacularly over the decades, but moviegoers, and gamers, have been there every step of the way. Miracles aren't as impressive as they used to be.. Man, does this movie have a savage bite.. The Wolf of Wall Street is a magnificent black comedy: fast, funny, and remarkably filthy.. Scorsese presents Belfort... <div id="rmore">0993846</div></p>

"Exodus: Gods and Kings" does a fair job of giving us what might be called The Second-Greatest Story Ever Told. What it never convinces us of is why.. Computer-generated imaging has advanced spectacularly over the decades, but moviegoers, and gamers,…

Kill the Messenger (2014) Play Streaming

<p>Kill the Messenger does a fine job of dramatizing Webb's reporting. The suspense reminds one of All the President's Men, if the structure and writing pale in comparison.. To his credit, Cuesta is interested not only in the darkest side of democracy, but in how Webb's fiery work impacts his personal life.. If the screenplay to "Kill the Messenger" were a news story, any capable copydesk would have kicked it back to the reporter-not for a shortage of facts, but a lack of dramatic soul.. A masterpi... <div id="rmore">1216491</div></p>

Kill the Messenger does a fine job of dramatizing Webb's reporting. The suspense reminds one of All the President's Men, if the structure and writing pale in comparison.. To his credit, Cuesta is interested not only in the darkest side of democracy, …

Party Monster (2003) Full Streaming

<p>A mess.. The wanton fabulistas of Party Monster are as boring and insignificant as the very 'normals and drearies' they so contemptuously deride.. This film feels fake, forced and indigestible.. If I hadn't had a professional obligation to stay until the end, I'd have disappeared faster than the coke that's snorted up Alig's nose.. Both pointless and grotesque, it accomplishes nothing but the impossible: It makes the charismatic look merely tiresome, and dangerous decadence look deadly dull.. . ... <div id="rmore">0320244</div></p>

A mess.. The wanton fabulistas of Party Monster are as boring and insignificant as the very 'normals and drearies' they so contemptuously deride.. This film feels fake, forced and indigestible.. If I hadn't had a professional obligation to stay until…

Blue Caprice (2013) Download Full

<p>Moors is neither showy nor exploitative in his telling of the story. He just lays out the details, making "Blue Caprice" not just a story of horror, but of tragedy.. If Moors and Porto were aiming for gun-debate relevance, they've failed; "Blue Caprice" has nothing to say about a society plagued by violence, nor does it focus on mental illness as a probable cause.. The grainy texture of the imagery is darkly arresting. Isaiah Washington is charismatic and fearsome, channeling a toxic mix of comp... <div id="rmore">2027064</div></p>

Moors is neither showy nor exploitative in his telling of the story. He just lays out the details, making "Blue Caprice" not just a story of horror, but of tragedy.. If Moors and Porto were aiming for gun-debate relevance, they've failed; "Blue Capri…

Breach (2007) Watch Streaming

<p>Ultimately, the movie soars because of the inspired casting of Chris Cooper as Hanssen.. When your false spy rings the truest, there's a problem.. A riveting true-life thriller about the young FBI specialist who got the goods on the veteran agent selling secrets to Moscow.. Ray's careful emphasis on authenticity over thrills and psychology over action is impeded by this narrative's narrow window: there's so much we can't know about what Hanssen did and why.. One of the best elements of this lean... <div id="rmore">0401997</div></p>

Ultimately, the movie soars because of the inspired casting of Chris Cooper as Hanssen.. When your false spy rings the truest, there's a problem.. A riveting true-life thriller about the young FBI specialist who got the goods on the veteran agent sel…

Catch Me If You Can (2002) Play Streaming

<p>A pointless exercise in morbidity.. I truly doubt Hollywood will produce anything this year that bottoms Alpha Dog for offensively bad filmmaking.. "Nuffin' wonky about my upbringing," Bronson says, early on. Nothing wonky about Hardy's performance, either.. Hardy chomps down on his once-in-a-career role with stunning ferocity and never lets go. He's extraordinary.. There's a feel of authenticity about Alpha Dog, primarily because of the performances of the young actors.. Spielberg knows that he... <div id="rmore">0264464</div></p>

A pointless exercise in morbidity.. I truly doubt Hollywood will produce anything this year that bottoms Alpha Dog for offensively bad filmmaking.. "Nuffin' wonky about my upbringing," Bronson says, early on. Nothing wonky about Hardy's performance, …

Low Down (2014) Play Movie

<p>Glenn Close plays Amy-Jo's grandmother, a nurturing figure in a dingy milieu, and delivers one of her better recent performances, while Hawkes, who bears a striking resemblance to Albany, again proves he's among our most dependable actors.. Breach is competently made but, aside from Cooper's performance, there's nothing here worth getting excited about.. The squalor alone isn't enough - this would be a more affecting story had if it showed us what was happening beneath the decaying exterior.. Lo... <div id="rmore">1864405</div></p>

Glenn Close plays Amy-Jo's grandmother, a nurturing figure in a dingy milieu, and delivers one of her better recent performances, while Hawkes, who bears a striking resemblance to Albany, again proves he's among our most dependable actors.. Breach is…

Kill the Irishman (2011) Watch Streaming

<p>The cast makes up for some occasionally spotty storytelling and telegraphing of events that keep "Irishman" from being as good as it could have been.. An extravagantly corny ode to the collapse of the Cleveland mafia in the 1970s.. This mob-war romance could still find an audience in niche release, given its action-oriented underdog story and Ray Stevenson's oddly charismatic lead performance.. The problem is that writer-director Jonathan Hensleigh doesn't do much beyond filling in the template;... <div id="rmore">1416801</div></p>

The cast makes up for some occasionally spotty storytelling and telegraphing of events that keep "Irishman" from being as good as it could have been.. An extravagantly corny ode to the collapse of the Cleveland mafia in the 1970s.. This mob-war roman…