Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) Full Movie Streaming

The drama in question, Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, is a bit like the festival itself - a happy mess.. Much of Confessions seems clueless and -- even worse for moviegoers of any age -- listless.. Lee distills the flavor of this transforming event and hints at how it transformed some who were there. His movie is a contact high.. . Flavorless blender-mix of dance movie cliches draws from the stagnant well of everything from Flashdance to Save the Last Dance.. A star vehicle with three flat tires an...

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ATL (2006) Online Streaming

Floria Sigismondi has created a movie that's more interesting than the band that it's about.. The film's special appeal is that while the boys are poor and black, their stories transcend race and socio-economic matters.. Fine work from Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in this conventional but solid look at the chick-punk teen band from the 1970s.. Too predictable.. . The Runaways is cool, but the Runaways were just so much cooler.. There's a flinty integrity in this movie's look at the rock gr...

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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (2003) Full Movie Streaming

However improbably, Kitano pulls it off quite gloriously. Admittedly, this isn't one of his most idiosyncratic, innovative or, indeed, satisfying works, but it's without doubt fast, funny, fabulous to behold.. For those unfamiliar with such films, Zatoichi might be a little off-putting. But given a chance, the movie can be pretty entertaining.. It's the kind of film I more and more find myself seeking out, a film that seems alive in the sense that it appears to have free will.. In the latter par...

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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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Masked and Anonymous (2003) Full Movie Streaming

The music is great. Dylan and his band do a half-dozen songs that crackle with energy.. Void of inflection, Dylan doesn't act, but stands and looks uneasy in whatever space the camera is pointing. The deadness in his eyes stops the movie cold.. The stellar but misguided cast ... is simply painful to watch as the doomed vehicle it's trapped in comes whistling toward a fiery crash landing.. The movie qualifies as a catastrophic mess, a chaotic celebration of Dylan's mysterious image as singer, art...

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The Sapphires (2012) Download Full

Occasionally, I see a chunk of cinematic debris that strikes so many wrong chords that I can't figure out how the project was greenlighted in the first place. This is one of those incidents.. Carey, so vibrant and upbeat in music videos during the 1990s, simply does not register on the big screen.. You could drive an Abrams tank through the film's plot holes, but you'll likely be too busy enjoying yourself to bother.. A very conventional story of a '60s Australian girl group gains extra power fr...

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