Horns (2013) Download Film

Radcliffe looks ready to stretch beyond the black comedy into something grave and mysterious. Director Aja shuts him down - cold. Horns has style to burn, but there's no there there.. "Horns" shifts from nifty Gothic thriller to obvious but meaningless allegory.. Heedless of purpose, "Horns" charges full speed ahead anyway, ramming its high-concept hooey down your throat until the only heat you feel is from indigestion.. Strangely enough, in its thorough devotion to its premise, "Horns" winds up...

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The Age of Adaline (2015) Online Streaming

One of the finest achievements of the 2014 film year.. 145 minutes of riveting drama and surprises.. The film's stabs at social commentary -- the constant barrage of tabloid TV coverage -- are crushingly obvious.. This is one of those movies that have you wondering: Long before the actors signed up and the locations were chosen and the sets were built and the filming began, how did someone not say, "Um, we have a big problem with this story"?. The film is as tender and endearing as a lamb, a lam...

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Real Steel (2011) Download Film

Feels as if it were made inside the mind of a kid obsessed with robots.. There's nothing real about Real Steel except its shameless desire to please by going where better and more successful movies have gone before.. A slightly soggy tale of father-son bonding, crossed with an action-adventure flick about high-tech battle-bots.. Though the premise of fighting robots does seem a plausible and intriguing extension of the contemporary WWE world, Real Steel is hampered by leaden, cliched moments in ...

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Brokeback Mountain (2005) Online Streaming

Brokeback Mountain the power to break your heart -- and, perhaps more important, to open it.. If the cowboy movies of John Wayne and John Ford were about the opening of the American West, Brokeback Mountain is the somber slam of its closing.. Both [Gyllenhaal and Ledger] embody what that old Waylon and Willie song taught us -- 'Cowboys ain't easy to love, and they're harder to hold.'. The movie has a universal quality because it tells a story of unfulfilled lives and roots it in the well-observe...

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McFarland, USA (2015) Spille Film

. McFarland USA has a distinction in that it's the rare sports movie directed by a woman. Caro's perspective is invaluable to the film's trajectory.. It's a beautiful, big, sorrowful film that manages to celebrate America while reexamining what it has stood for and what it has become.. Inherent Vice is a sun-glared, neon-limned muddle of noir plotline and potheaded jokery that not only doesn't make sense, but actually seems to try hard not to.. It's all a bit much.. If they gave Oscars for overc...

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Ex Machina (2015) Se Fuld Film

Its aura of cool menace is largely attributable to Isaac, stealing his every scene as the smoothly bullying CEO, and production designer Mark Digby, who created the millionaire's sleek, high-tech mountain fortress.. Like stage actors who live and breathe their roles over the course of months, Isaac, Gleeson, and Vikander excel, and cast a spell.. A neat psychological thriller for the digital age. Great performances compensate for a slightly slim story.. It's hard to imagine another director sque...

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Jobs (2013) Download Fuld

Not that the real man's career wasn't marked by conflict, but does Jobs have to be such a drag?. He was a charismatic leader, and the greatest salesman the industry ever saw.. There's a void inside the man that Kutcher never manages to fill.. A blandly superficial treatment of a deeply complex man.. [A] merely serviceable film .... "Jobs" turns out to be the IBM PCjr of biographical dramas, hampered by creaky formatting and thinking entirely inside the box.. If Jobs had been a producer on Jobs, ...

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