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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Don Jon (2013) Download Fuld

Bigelow's extensive staging of the May 1, 2011, raid is a prime example of virtuoso action filmmaking.. This realist fairy tale of impossible love has a fair amount of nuance and charm.. Swift, smart, relentless, Zero Dark Thirty compresses a decade of high-stakes procedural into 157 minutes of pure momentum.. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's debut as a writer-director-actor resembles a porn addict's Groundhog Day, and not in a good way.. Offbeat, frank and often surprising gem.. A timely and important re...

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The Dark Knight (2008) Fuld Streaming

An explosively provocative [film]. ... Exhilaratingly straightforward action sequences matched by moral complexity of a sort not usually associated with comic-book movie franchises.. Christopher Nolan's second Batman adventure is the rare blockbuster that left me engaged and thoughtful instead of bored and bummed out.. Where Batman Begins was largely about the considerable personal toll exacted by its hero's decision to fight back against the forces of evil while adhering to a code of honor, The...

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Drive (2011) Download Fuld

Sure, it's shallow, but it's also slickly compelling, beautifully crafted and so damn shiny.. For stone-cold, retro action fans who are tired of all these over-edited, underachieving thrillers - well, here's one car chase movie that isn't running on empty.. Drive is pedal-to-the-metal stuff. Don't get behind the wheel unless you can take the rush.. In reworking genres without quoting shamelessly, Refn proves himself his own man and a guy quite capable of taking us places we didn't even know we w...

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