Ricki and the Flash (2015) Full Movie Streaming

Demme has already made a messed-up family matrimonial get-together way better than this, with a way better screenplay than the one Juno writer Cody has tossed off.. The skilled veteran Demme alternates dysfunctional family confrontations with easy comedy, expertly peppering in just the right rock tunes along the way. It's hard not to like Ricki, but the film makes no excuses for her actions.. There are fleeting moments of real fun. Still, it's hard not to wonder why so much in the movie went so ...

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Brown Sugar (2002) Watch Streaming

. Somewhere over the rainbow the skies are blue, that's the dream. Some make it, some don't - this eloquent daughter's tale shows both sides.. There are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances, but Brown Sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy.. . A romantic comedy, yes, but one with characters who think and talk about their goals, and are working on hard decisions.. Entertaining, not inspiring.. The squalor alone isn't enough - this ...

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Step Up Revolution (2012) Watch Streaming

Despite their infectious energy and some mind-blowing moves, there's a chaotic formlessness to even the best of these set pieces. While dance purists won't be impressed by the energetic and athletic choreography -- the dancers have clearly learned routines but not necessarily technique -- date-movie audiences will likely want to go out dancing afterward themselves, and that's fun.. There isn't a franchise around that matches the kids' moves in the Step Up series. We just need a better reason to ...

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Eden (2014) Play Streaming

The camerawork is so fluid and the settings so brimming with detail that one feels washed away by the film, recognizing the hero's decline only when he does-that is, too late.. Eden finds paradise where it counts: right between the ears.. Eden is indeed as low-key as anything Hansen-Love has done, though it conveys a sense of risk that feels new for her -- both in the scope of the story and in specific choices she makes.. The years in this movie don't really amount to much. It's stuck between di...

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High Fidelity (2000) Download Full

When happiness does arrive in this movie, it has the air not of something that you reach, like your top speed, but of something that you give in to, like baldness or old age.. "Beyond the Lights" is a faint shadow of 1992's "The Bodyguard," without the star power of Whitney Houston or Kevin Costner.. Prince-Bythewood is stingingly astute at what fame does to objectify women. And Gugu Mbatha-Raw, so good this year in Belle, is a shining new star.. The film soldiers on through a couple of possible...

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Cadillac Records (2008) Watch Full Movie

Too bad for Knowles that she's only part of Darnell Martin's rushed mess of a movie that jams the story of Chicago-based Chess Records into one incoherent package.. . A good general rule is that if one performance is good, credit the actor. But if everyone in the movie is doing excellent work, this is no coincidence. This is the product of superior direction.. Perhaps there were insurmountable legal restrictions. But the movie still serves as a dandy primer for rediscovering a lot of great music...

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A Late Quartet (2012) Play Streaming

For those willing to enter this world and pay attention, "A Late Quartet" provides distinct and uncommon satisfactions.. The screenplay by Seth Grossman and Israeli-American director Yaron Zilberman is old-fashioned and melodramatic but stirring in its portrait of people struggling with individual egos to produce something nobler than themselves.. [It] may not sound like a scintillatingly good time at the movies, but actually it is.. The movie is haut-bourgeois to the bone, but so am I: Let's he...

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