The Gunman (2015) Online Streaming

OK, we've seen the biceps and the abs. Very nice. Now, back to the brain.. It's a short film, weighing in at 79 minutes, but that feels about right. You probably wouldn't want to spend a lot more time with these folks, no matter how intriguing their company.. Part of the contract that movies of this sort forge with moviegoers is that the reasons for all the running and gunning won't get in the way of the action. "The Gunman" doesn't play by those rules.. A dum-dum action picture that briefly pre...

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National Treasure (2004) Titta Hela Filmen

The result is a dolled-up, overblown, pandering romantic costume drama that's not only sillier than the filmmakers surely intended but also, if you follow the plot implications all the way to the end, way ickier, too.. Cage invests none of the edge, passion or heart we've come to expect from him in the part. Bean has no decent villainous moments, and the rest of the cast (save for Voight) is forgettable and generic.. Just when you think you've finished with one of these annoying franchises, anot...

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Vampire Academy (2014) Spela Film

Sometimes I watch a film unspool like a tape measure, and I can sense how far we are from the end. Sometimes my imagination is led to live right along with it.. Fans of the 'pitiless/merciless killers' school of horror should get a jolt out of The Strangers, a harrowing real-time tale of an assault on a remote country home.. Let's give writer-director Bryan Bertino credit. He knows how to frame a shot to make characters seem vulnerable. Now for his next trick, he just needs to turn his talents t...

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Insidious (2010) Ladda Ner Film

If there's a complaint to be made about Insidious, it's that the film's second half is unable to live up to the impossibly high standards set by the first half.. Aesthetically, Insidious operates at the level of a decent high school video project.. The film is stylish and quietly unsettling even in its derivativeness, and it delivers the sort of slow-building chills that ruffle the hair at the back of your neck, at least until the frights get a little too literal, in the movie's third act.. Not ...

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Dark Places (2015) Fullständig Film Streaming

A film that, for all its pretensions and intermittent power, is essentially high-grade claptrap.. Prisoners is an overblown missing-children mystery that wants to comment on the dysfunctional soul of America.. A work of impressive craftsmanship that winds up making us think too much about how it was fashioned rather than what it has to say.. "Prisoners" is a dark, deeply serious examination of how loss can unhinge us; it grabs onto you, and you may have trouble shaking it away.. "Dark Places" is...

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Transcendence (2014) Spela Film

The question of whether we're too tied to technology and when or if it will prove our downfall is undoubtedly important and probably somewhat pressing. It certainly deserves a better movie than "Transcendence.". Bold, beautiful, sometimes confounding flight of futuristic speculation firmly rooted in the potential of today's technology.. Transcendence is fairly ridiculous, but some may prefer its grand, loopy ambition to the small-minded sameness of so many futuristic thrillers.. Remember when pa...

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The Guest (2014) Fullständig Film Streaming

To note that "The Guest" is not for everyone is to belabor the obvious. But for fans of smart, well-made horror, it's a treat.. Frank mostly overdoses on portentousness as he roots his solid hero in a city that fears coming to pieces.. For much of its running time, "The Guest" plays an interesting guessing game with the audience.. As a throwback to a type of nasty, ugly crime film of yesteryear, A Walk Among the Tombstones cleans up.. Overplotted and underexplained .... Frank's film is much more...

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