Honeydripper (2007) Online Streaming

Honeydripper, by veteran American director John Sayles, shows just how much life music can give to a movie.. It's best to forget the story here and focus on those small moments that shine in any Sayles film.. Lemmons creates mesmerizing passages, but she can't bring this one to a fulfilling crescendo.. . It has all the reliable components of Sayles' films: a strong social conscience; well-drawn characters whose lives overlap convincingly; a languid pace that allows for the honest unfolding of th...

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Metallica: Through the Never (2013) Watch Streaming

The film's linguistic problems might be overlooked, where it not for the complete lack of believable romance between the pouty Cruz and the frisky Cage.. The movie's craft is dead and dutiful. It's an Oscar machine.. The film's perfectly watchable, but it's never more than that.. In the real world, concerts build to a climax, then return for two or three more; on the screen, alas, "Metallica: Through the Never" just kind of peters out.. The 13-year-old me would have loved it, and I wouldn't be l...

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) Play Streaming

We began this dismal movie season with one lethally bad World War II romance -- Pearl Harbor -- and now we're wrapping up with another howling dog, Captain Corelli's Mandolin.. A phlegmatic, middlebrow romantic drama so stodgy that even the goats look bored.. It's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness, and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet I found it weirdly appealing.. The movie duplicates exactly my experience with the book, although I must say I was ...

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Lilo & Stitch (2002) Full Movie Streaming

The sad-funny story of a stubborn, talented Greenwich Village folk singer becomes a stunning, tragicomic paradigm of an artist's struggle in America.. A delightful, oddball surprise.. It's a bright, engaging bauble with half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad, and just enough sass -- Stitch sticks his tongue into his nose and eats his snot -- to keep the tweeners giggling.. In small movements - the twitch of a hand, a wobble under a door frame, a beer and straw held uselessly by his pai...

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The Guru (2002) Watch Full Movie

. A trifle, a silly one at that, but it's a charming trifle that's hard to resist.. If you're looking to take your children to something harmless, that doesn't embarrass anyone, this light comedy ... is your next outing.. This ingrown mutant is easily the most bizarre children's film made in this country since 1982's lab-rat apocalypse The Secret of NIMH.. The Mark Perez script lacks the clever humor and odd twists that can help a family film transcend age.. With a reach that frequently falls sh...

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Abandon (2002) Full Movie Streaming

Gaghan ... has thrown every suspenseful cliche in the book at this nonsensical story.. It can't make up its mind whether it's a serious drama, a swoony romance, or a psychological thriller.. It's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit.. The title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere.. ... expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse, turning into a black hole of dullness, from which no interesting concept can escape.. Pic's structure...

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Grand Piano (2013) Full Movie Streaming

Funny and feisty, gritty and sometimes grim, this first feature from the photographer Elaine Constantine delivers a sweaty snapshot of a very specific time and place.. "Grand Piano" is an ambitious effort that plays dumb.. The convincing atmosphere, performances and soundtrack of vintage Yank R&B obscurities make this an enjoyable throwback to a scene whose influence if not its fame eventually traveled far.. Grand Piano is a screenwriter's fantasy of a self-conscious Hitchcockian thriller, darin...

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Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011) Download Movie

It's slight, but pleasurable fun.. It's not "On Golden Pond" by any stretch, but it is nice to have Fonda back in the fractious family way.. Certainly, there's a comedy to be made about multigenerational conflict. But "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding" never quite finds its groove.. Preposterous, but much anxious fun.. It's like "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Catskills.. A revealing if disappointingly thin and histrionic drama about a couple of 18-year-old guys who gamble their dreams and futu...

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The Caveman's Valentine (2001) Download Full

Lemmons creates mesmerizing passages, but she can't bring this one to a fulfilling crescendo.. Works as everything but a mystery, yet it is intriguing in a number of ways.. Watching the film, it's easy to imagine how a novel might make the unlikely plot machinations less ludicrous.. The plot lines that follow are so convoluted and ludicrous that one just gives up piecing it all together.. The new film confirms that Lemmons and Jackson are a movie team made in heaven.. Jackson's convincing portra...

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Frank (2014) Download Full

A quirky, utterly engaging film that manages to be amusing, dark, surprising and poignant without wasting a single one of its 95 minutes.. With the soulful Gleeson and a sweetly menacing Fassbender (under a giant helmet-head) at its center, the movie never loses its acerbic edge or its oversize heart.. It's about a sensitive, confused young man in desperate pain, negotiating an identity crisis during an important moment in American cultural history.. The sad-funny story of a stubborn, talented G...

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No Good Deed (2003) Full Movie Streaming

It's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience.. If you're looking to take your children to something harmless, that doesn't embarrass anyone, this light comedy ... is your next outing.. It's just that it's so generally mediocre, bland and predictable that I found myself moaning every time I looked at my watch, which was often.. Entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics, but through the perverse pleasure of watching Disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker b...

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